Man with Optimus Prime T Shirt not allowed on plane!

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Dec 2008, 14:22

Can you believe this?

I think this shows that this country is run by overly paranoid people and they are far too cautious.

There are some paranoid idiots in our country

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

I could understand maybe if his shirt had a rude word on it or was offensive but its not. Its just a cartoon robot FFS.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Dec 2008, 18:13

WTF!

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gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 30 Dec 2008, 19:11

This is the best bit:

Last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Dec 2008, 19:14

Mad Cow maybe? The disease not the woman

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Seriously, that one sounds like it was taken out of context. It's only fairly recently we're allowed to take food period on planes again.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Dec 2008, 19:54

Yeah maybe the beef sandwich is because of BSE? Dunno?
Now you can only take a certain amount of liquid on a plane (100ml or something like that), and there only plastic knives/forks (because of 9/11 maybe?)
The T-Shirt isnt a weapon, its just a picture, so how does that hurt people?

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 30 Dec 2008, 20:21

grim_tales wrote:The T-Shirt isnt a weapon, its just a picture, so how does that hurt people?

Probably fans of Megatron that took offence 8)

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Dec 2008, 21:27

Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 31 Dec 2008, 00:34

That is comedy gold, and while the staff are busy dealing with all the people wearing Transformer shirts and eating beef sandwiches, the real terrorists are running about smuggling all sorts of shit in!

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 31 Dec 2008, 09:13

The real terrorists at the airport are the folks running their overprices shops.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 31 Dec 2008, 11:25

Hilarious anecdote.

P.S. Grim, did you notice that article is from June '08?

Shingster wrote:That is comedy gold, and while the staff are busy dealing with all the people wearing Transformer shirts and eating beef sandwiches, the real terrorists are running about smuggling all sorts of shit in!

They'll be siphoning off the electricity and converting it into Energon cubes.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 31 Dec 2008, 14:49

Oops Eva, no I didnt