Monday, June 02, 2008

Don't wear that Transformers shirt through security


From USATODAY, Brad Jayakody tells British news organizations that a security guard at London's Heathrow airport ordered him to change his T-shirt because it showed a Transformers character carrying a gun.

"I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn’t," the 30-year-old tells The Sun. "After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested."

The airport, which is investigating the report, tells The Telegraph that passengers may be asked to remove clothing that includes offensive language or bomb-related imagery.

'It's a 40-foot tall cartoon robot with a gun as an arm," Jayakody tells the Daily Mail. "There is no way this shirt is offensive in any way, and what I'm going to use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?"

1 comment:

Octopunk said...

It's even more ridiculous when you see the actual T-shirt (scroll up on the blog if you didn't catch it). The gun in the image JPX posted here is far more in-your-face; the actual T-shirt features the hyperdetailed movie version of the character and the gun is far less noticable. Weird.

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