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Man threatened with arrest at Heathrow for wearing Transformers T-shirt
Last updated at 14:04pm on 02.06.08
An airline passenger claimed that a security guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon robot with a gun.
Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'
The IT consultant was set to fly off on a business trip to Dusseldorf in Germany when he was pulled to one side.
Brad Jayakody wearing the Transformers T-shift which caused offence at Heathrow
Mr Jayakody said the first guard started joking with him about the Transformers character depicted on his French Connection T-shirt.
'"Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm not allowed to fly,' he said.
'It's a 40ft tall cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. 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?
He was cooperative with the supervisor and took off the the 'offensive' T-shirt, replacing it with another shirt in his carry on luggage.
A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said: 'If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it, for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it.
'We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.
'If it's offensive, we don't want other passengers upset.'
He said there was no record of the incident and the passenger 'certainly didn't make a formal complaint at the time.'
The Optimus Prime character on Mr Jayakody's T-shirt is the most well known of the series
Link: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23489284-details/Man%20threatened%20with%20arrest%20at%20Heathrow%20for%20wearing%20Transformers%20T-shirt/article.do?expand=true#StartComments
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:o
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We may laugh or wince at the absurdity of it, but the incident is a good example of the world we live in. Take nothing for granted when it comes to the administration of the Byzantine rules that govern our lives.
Yet, on strictly a satorial level, any adult male that wears a shirt like that one in public pretty much deserves what he gets. He would have been better off wearing a sarong.
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My Granddaughter once wore my Detroit Police Academy T-shirt to school and was sent home to change because it was offensive ???
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My Granddaughter once wore my Detroit Police Academy T-shirt to school and was sent home to change because it was offensive ???
At times like that you just want to slap the s**t out of someone cause there ain't no way slap any sence into them!
What? It was offensive to the little thugs?
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Welcome to the world of political correctness. >:(
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I'm all for our basic rights( free speach... yadda yadda yadda)
Airlines are a business, and as a business, they can choose who they want to do business with.
Don't like that idea... I hate to pop your cherry when it comes to the real world, but that is how the world works.
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Tab,
I agree on the whole 'business' thing but come on. A friggin T-shirt?? With a picture of a cartoon robot thingy??
And it wasn't the airline that complained it was the Brit version of TSA. You know, people with GEDs or less that are given power to decide if YOU are a threat. Give a small mind a little authority and watch the abuse and hilarity the is SURE to occur.
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......With a picture of a cartoon robot thingy??
And it wasn't the airline that complained it was the Brit version of TSA. You know, people with GEDs or less that are given power to decide if YOU are a threat. Give a small mind a little authority and watch the abuse and hilarity the is SURE to occur.
If you are willing to miss your flight, the way to handle a bureaucracy is to say, "Sure, now show me where it is written this is the case....?" and follow it with, "Where do I file a personel complaint for your abusive and hurtful actions?" Yes,....you will miss your flight but these are the sorts of things I do...if we don't we get run over en masse... It's fun to watch the rodents begin to shrink and shiver....just stay cool and speak with authority....don't get drawn into a he said she said kind of a thing just stick to your "guns" and go with the facts. 1st show me where it is written, then file the complaint and mention the ineptitude of that person to interpret the regs...
And yes...a grown man with a comic book type character needs to grow up...unless, of course, it is Underdog....
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LOOK... It's a Bird!.....It's a plane....It's a frog!
No, not bird or plane or even frog, just little ol' me....Underdog.
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LOOK... It's a Bird!.....It's a plane....It's a frog!
No, not bird or plane or even frog, just little ol' me....Underdog.
Your not the Underdog, Your the Hazinator!!!! ;D
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AHHHH! Nice to be home where I'm appreciated! ;D
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Yes it is a business, but it is a gummint regulated business, and there are rules. Even the airline and the Brit equivalent of the TSA "are looking into it" - meaning they don't think it was right but hell will freeze before they say so.
As for the guy wearing a t-shirt on an international flight, I have one question for all of you - just what the hell do you think personal liberty and freedom means? I can only wear what you think is appropriate? Bite me. He was asking for it? Right, and cute girls with short skirts get to be raped, right?
If I wanted to wear a Dorothy Lamour outfit (i.e., sarong) on an international flight, I bloody well will.
I expected better from this crowd, lots better. >:( >:( >:(
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Yes it is a business, but it is a gummint regulated business, and there are rules. Even the airline and the Brit equivalent of the TSA "are looking into it" - meaning they don't think it was right but hell will freeze before they say so.
As for the guy wearing a t-shirt on an international flight, I have one question for all of you - just what the hell do you think personal liberty and freedom means? I can only wear what you think is appropriate? Bite me. He was asking for it? Right, and cute girls with short skirts get to be raped, right?
If I wanted to wear a Dorothy Lamour outfit (i.e., sarong) on an international flight, I bloody well will.
I expected better from this crowd, lots better. >:( >:( >:(
Hey Path.
I'm on your side!
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Your not the Underdog, Your the Hazinator!!!! ;D
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Cool as it is Rastus,
I could never be without my Handsome Boy. Now, if you could merge..... ;D
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I'm all for our basic rights( free speach... yadda yadda yadda)
Airlines are a business, and as a business, they can choose who they want to do business with.
Don't like that idea... I hate to pop your cherry when it comes to the real world, but that is how the world works.
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Thats England, None of their "Rights" are actualy specified in writing that I know of. Now some one here will probably explain to me how I'm wrong and cite chapter and verse to back it up, but thats OK as then I will have learned something else.
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Yes it is a business, but it is a gummint regulated business, and there are rules. Even the airline and the Brit equivalent of the TSA "are looking into it" - meaning they don't think it was right but hell will freeze before they say so.
As for the guy wearing a t-shirt on an international flight, I have one question for all of you - just what the hell do you think personal liberty and freedom means? I can only wear what you think is appropriate? Bite me. He was asking for it? Right, and cute girls with short skirts get to be raped, right?
If I wanted to wear a Dorothy Lamour outfit (i.e., sarong) on an international flight, I bloody well will.
I expected better from this crowd, lots better. >:( >:( >:(
It's not the fact he was wearing a "T shirt", It's that he was wearing a DORK "T shirt"
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The UK has several bills of rights... 1st one was magnacarta.
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Yes it is a business, but it is a gummint regulated business, and there are rules. Even the airline and the Brit equivalent of the TSA "are looking into it" - meaning they don't think it was right but hell will freeze before they say so.
As for the guy wearing a t-shirt on an international flight, I have one question for all of you - just what the hell do you think personal liberty and freedom means? I can only wear what you think is appropriate? Bite me. He was asking for it? Right, and cute girls with short skirts get to be raped, right?
If I wanted to wear a Dorothy Lamour outfit (i.e., sarong) on an international flight, I bloody well will.
I expected better from this crowd, lots better. >:( >:( >:(
entering my properity( rather its a car, boat, airplane, or my house), I have ever right to deside what is appropriate.
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The UK has several bills of rights... 1st one was magnacarta.
Have you ever tried READING that ? the darn thing is incomprehesible with Olde English and all the cluases qualifiers and obscure legalese. Also the variety of Bills of rights lets the Brit courts pick and chose their interpetation, that is part of how they held on to Ireland for 600 years, they had ready made laws to suit every occasion, and if that didn't work issue a D notice.
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Have you ever tried READING that ? the darn thing is incomprehesible with Olde English and all the cluases qualifiers and obscure legalese. Also the variety of Bills of rights lets the Brit courts pick and chose their interpetation, that is part of how they held on to Ireland for 600 years, they had ready made laws to suit every occasion, and if that didn't work issue a D notice.
and that differs from our bill of rights how?
Lets just take one... of them... mmm which one... I know the 2nd one.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Thats about as clear as mud.
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I wear gun shirts all the time on flights (about 200,000+ a year) and I have not had a problem yet. Yes, I have offended people, but hey, there are some others out there wearing stuff that is offensive to me, and do I get to complain?? Most of the time I get positive comments, or "where can I get one". I just love sitting next to some anti for 5 hours wearing my "Diversity" shirt.. or that tye dye hippie that is stuck back 30 years with my "Chicken Foot" shirt.
On International flights I wear stuff that is strictly business casual, more to blend in than anything else. There are a lot of places I go where this stuff would not "fly"..
-Bidah