Monday, June 02, 2008

Are You Frightened of a Gun on a T-Shirt?

The Sun reports: "[Heathrow] guards stopped [30 year-old Brad Jayakody] boarding a plane — for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun." He asked to speak to the supervisor, who supported the decision and threaten to arrest him. "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’."

"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." I don't get this at all. Maybe if the T-shirt had a functioning bomb on it or the schematics to assemble one; but a picture of a bomb?

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