Brits are afraid of a Transformers T-shirt

[Speedlace]

WTF??!!

Image of toy banned by British Airways
'What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?'

Optimus Prime, the hero of the series of kids toys, movies and comic books, is the "largest, strongest, and wisest of all Autobots," protects life on Earth and defeats the Decepticons. He also can create havoc at Heathrow Airport's high-security Terminal 5.

That's because he was pictured on a T-shirt worn by Brad Jayakody, 30, who was trying to board a British Airways jet to Dusseldorf, Germany, with four work colleagues.

The character's right arm is a gun, and Jayakody was ordered to change his shirt, or miss his flight, because of the threat from the image, according to a report in the Telegraph.

"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,'" he told the newspaper.

Jayakody, who lives in the London area, then reports he was threatened with arrest for asking to see a security manager.

"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?" he said. ""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."

A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA told the newspaper: "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."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65988

 

[Manimal]

UK = ***** Central...and I don't mean the fun kind.

 

[JadeRaven]

He means the real stinky kind.

 

[SimonJester308]

And that my young students is how the colonist defeated the british army during the revolution, by merely showing them hand drawn sketches of their muskets.

 

[spanky]

Where can I get one of those shirts?!

 

[Toby]

yer too old to wear an Autobot shirt Spanky

 

[LouisianaCarry]

I wrote that whole country off a couple years ago when I read an article where they called out a bomb squad to remove a .22 SHORT shell that was laying on the sidewalk.

It boggles the mind. Used to be an empire, now they are scared of their own shadow.

 

[R.McNaylor]

pay close attention to what is going on here...

You are correct sir. We are the new Rome............

 

[SimonJester308]

"When AutoBot T-shirts are outlawed, only outlaws will be wearing AutoBot T-shirts" or how about "From my cold dead ass, you dirty Apes"?

 

[SimonJester308]

A dictionary definition of the word "liberal" is as follows 1) Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values 2) favorable to, or respectful of individual rights and freedoms 3) favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform.

Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Fascism - an authoritarian and nationalistic right wing system of government and social organization. Extreme right wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice.

Communism - a political theory advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

So with these definitions, who is bringing us to our knees? I will tell you who is bringing us to our knees. Every American who is doing nothing to prevent it. The ones who think they are defending their liberty by screaming at the talking heads on their televisions, our the morons glued to their favorite talk radio show. The one who just cant live without the latest widget shiny sparkle and puts it on the old credit card, mortgage the house so as to start the spiral into debt all over again. The ones who arent raising their kids, they let the TV babysit for them, then dont pay attention to what the public school is dumping into their heads. The ones waiting on Jesus to come down and save them from the mess they made, the ones who dont pay attention and wont do a little research into politics, because if the minority that even makes the effort to get their ass to the polls, they are just aping the choices they think they are making after being manipulated by the media. Nothing proactive, thats too hard, Id have to think for myself. I'll just keep reacting to what they throw through the bars at me, its easy, no thinking on my own, and with low down payment, easy monthly installments, and a 30 minute or less guarantee, what could possibly go wrong? If my freedom takes longer that 30 minutes, I get free cheesy bread.

Freedom is what they give you. Liberty is what you fight for every single day until your dead, and take even a moment to rest and they will steal it from you.