Heathrow threatens to arrest man wearing Transformer T-Shirt

[greggh]

Another fun item I found on Stallman's blog today

http://www.stallman.org/archives/2008-m ... y%20bully)

See, it's not just American airport security that's out of their minds

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... 234193.ece

AIRPORT guards stopped a man boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.

He thought the boss would "see sense" — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched.

"But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."

The top has the Transformers film character Optimus Prime on the front.

Brad, of Bayswater, West London, added: "It’s a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?

"I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn’t. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested."

[Tsuroerusu]

It's common knowledge all over Europe, that the Brits have their quirks!

[allix]

yeah we are a bunch of wierdos

Our excessive drinking culture has been commented by most of Europe as pretty bad , a Time article once wrote on the young

There's a culture among certain young people that you haven't had a good night out unless you become paralytically drunk, puked up in a bucket, urinated on someone's front lawn and, best of all, smacked a cop.