Heathrow T5 security tackles Transformers t-shirt threat

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An IT consultant who attempted to board a British Airways flight to Dusseldorf at Heathrow's T5 wearing a Transformers t-shirt was told to take off the offending apparel or else, The Sun reports.

Brad Jayakody, 30, was travelling with four colleagues and ill-advisedly decided to sport an image of Optimus Prime wielding a menacing cartoon gun.


He explained: "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’."

Jayakody then asked to see the security chief, but didn't get the attack of common sense he was expecting. He continued: "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."

He 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?"

A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA offered: "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."

As if people didn't need more reason to hate the airlines... at least the stupidity is not centralized to the USA anymore. Other then that...words pretty much escape me other then the usual hate-filled ranting of stupidity and how the terrorists have won.

[LadyTevar]

More than meets the eye

[Derek Thunder]

Decepticons did 9/11

[frigidmagi]

I can beat that for stupid.

BBC

The US chain Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an advert following complaints that the scarf worn by a celebrity chef offered symbolic support for Islamic extremism.

The online advert for iced coffee featured the well-known US television chef Rachael Ray.

She was wearing a black-and-white checked scarf around her neck that resembled a traditional Arab keffiyeh.

This fashion choice incensed at least one prominent conservative blogger, who said it evoked extremist videos.

The blogger, Michelle Malkin, called the garment "a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos".

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Other criticism followed and the coffee and doughnuts chain has now decided to drop the advert.


Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence - unintentionally or not - they matter
Michelle Malkin

In a statement, Dunkin' Donuts said the silk scarf had been "selected by Rachael Ray's stylist and that no symbolism was intended.

"But given the possibility of misperception the commercial was no longer being used."

This has caused a fair amount of consternation in some quarters but the conservative blogger at the centre of the row has praised the decision.

"Fashion statements may seem insignificant, but when they lead to the mainstreaming of violence - unintentionally or not - they matter," Ms Malkin has written.

Cause you know, keeping people from wearing vaguely silimar colored scarves is how we're gonna win the war.

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Honestly, lets face it. The war on terror was lost a long time ago. Because we were stupid enough to go to all this trouble and allow all this shit so terrorists wouldn't win. we became afraid of our own god damned shadows and anyone and anything that was vaugely not "us" was bad and wrong and most certainly a terrorist and must be removed.

[The Village Idiot]

I am glad I was already in the Hospital when I read these. They say if I avoid reallizing the stupidity around me I might actually regain full brain function. Either that or one more similer attack and I will be dead.