Man banned from from flying for Transformers T-shirt

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Jeanie wrote:
    Didn't this happen already?

    I'm sure there was a guy refused entry to Australia a few years back because the t-shirt he was wearing was deemed offensive and a terrorist threat?

    It was around the time of the WEF I think?

    Anyway, I find it laughable that a t-shirt will get you thrown off the plane but I wander on with my walking stick and hyperdermics in my hand luggage.
    I even had a customs guy at Auckland airport tell me I didn't look like a terrorist and to have a nice day! :confused:

    Here ya go....

    Airline Bars Man From Flight Over Bush T-Shirt
    An Australian man is threatening to sue the airline company Qantas after he was barred from flying. At the time Allen Jasson was wearing a t-shirt depicting President Bush that read “World’s number one terrorist.” A spokesperson for the airline said: “Whether made verbally or on a T-shirt, comments with the potential to offend other customers or threaten the security of a Qantas group aircraft will not be tolerated.”

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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Does Tee Stand For Terrorist? NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For Wearing T-Shirt Saying “We Will Not Be Silent” in Arabic

    I heard this guy speak in DC and talked with him after. He said he felt humiliated my the whole episode.

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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I have one of those desktop replacement laptops with a 17 inch wide screen.

    Anyhow long story short, I'm about mid flight and I decide to open it up and play some Call of Duty 4. There's a level at the end where you run around inside a jet airliner shooting up people with an fully automatic machine gun. I had my headphones on, and I only played for about 5 -10 mins.

    I wonder what they would have done to me if a stewardess saw this.
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  • Kann
    Kann Posts: 1,146
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    oh well.
    sometimes we all have to sacrifice a litle liberty, for some security, right?
    surely.

    Without thinking about this particularly ridiculous example, you would say you'd be ready to get rid of security controls (some of which are severe breaches of your liberty to travel) in airports?
  • spiral out
    spiral out Posts: 1,052
    Eliot Rosewater wrote:
    Fucking IT guy wearing a transformers shirt. Classic.

    Yep total nerd.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Eejits :rolleyes: feckin eejits the lot of em!

    I mean what's he gonna do... hold em up with his tshirt? Well the airline staff are probably so dumb they might fall for it if he puts his finger behind the tshirt and tells them to 'stick em up' :rolleyes:

    Funny how I can carry an umbrella on board in my bag (with SEVERAL metal pointy things sticking out of it) which I'm sure could CERTAINLY be used as a weapon somehow... but I'm gonna hold up the whole plane with my moisturiser? :confused:
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    They probably tried to charge the dude a fee for changing his shirt. :rolleyes:
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Funny how I can carry an umbrella on board in my bag (with SEVERAL metal pointy things sticking out of it) which I'm sure could CERTAINLY be used as a weapon somehow... but I'm gonna hold up the whole plane with my moisturiser? :confused:

    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.
    :D that's the funniest... you have to (sometimes) hand in your lighter... and then just buy one about a minute later in duty free :D
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.


    why can't you? I bring water and soda on planes all the time. Nevermind, I was thinking about it incorrectly, you can't bring it through security but you can bring it on the plane.

    yeah, a lot of it is ridiculous.
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  • godpt3
    godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    I'm sure there's "more than meets the eye" to this case :)
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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Are You Cereal????
  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    The liquid restrictions make absolutly no sense. I mean I can't bring my little bottle of water, but at the same time if I am travelling internationally I can walk into the airport duty free store and buy a giant glass bottle of flamable liquid.
    The world has gone fuckin' nuts. I was told I couldn't take a jar of marmite through last year. There are too many paranoid morons just looking to spoil someones day.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    RolandTD20Kdrummer wrote:

    I found this also more than a bit ridiculous at the end of the article:

    "last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding, and last week a PhD student was stopped for wearing a gun-shaped charm necklace at an airport in Canada.

    :confused: I've seen a few people with gun tattoos lately and actually plan on getting one myself on my inner right forearm. I wonder if they'll understand the meaning of this one. :rolleyes: http://flickr.com/photos/adropinthepark/2548533938/
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  • Collin
    Collin Posts: 4,931
    That's just insane!

    They do realize it's a t-shirt, right? And not an actual gun?

    When I left the US there were metal stakes (from my tent) in my hand bagage, which I would carry on board. There was also a deoderant can in my bag, which is actually forbidden on a plane because you might use it as a blow torch if you have a lighter. But the security guard said nothing.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    "Robots in the skies" has never sounded so ironic. :o
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  • spiral out
    spiral out Posts: 1,052
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    "Robots in the skies" has never sounded so ironic. :o

    I thought it was robots in disguise.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    spiral out wrote:
    I thought it was robots in disguise.

    I knew people wouldn't get that wordplay. :p
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