Man threatened with arrest at Heathrow for wearing Transformers T-shirt

[Ladywriter 7,783]

4real

An airline passenger claimed that a security guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon robot with a gun.

Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive.'

The IT consultant was set to fly off on a business trip to Dusseldorf in Germany when he was pulled to one side.

Brad Jayakody wearing the Transformers T-shift which caused offence at Heathrow

Mr Jayakody said the first guard started joking with him about the Transformers character depicted on his French Connection T-shirt.

'"Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm not allowed to fly,' he said.

'It's a 40ft tall cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. There is no way this shirt is offensive in any way, and what I'm going to use the shirt to pretend I have a gun?

He was cooperative with the supervisor and took off the the 'offensive' T-shirt, replacing it with another shirt in his carry on luggage.

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.

'We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.

'If it's offensive, we don't want other passengers upset.'

He said there was no record of the incident and the passenger 'certainly didn't make a formal complaint at the time.'

.....................4real?

[Eppy 3,446]

i swear so fucking stupid...people really need to chill the fuck out

[CabbitGirl 4,018]

what the fuck is he going to do with a PICTURE of a robot and gun....... on a plane...

[Pchan 5,162]

Hahahaha X'd Lame!!!

[Myk JL 1,731]

I wonder what the reaction would have been if the shirt had said "Anti-Guns"?

[Kite 3,263]

i own that shirt

by the way it is optimus prime, not megatron ;p

also how the hell is that offencive

Edited June 4, 2008 by Kite

[Ladywriter 7,783]

I knew somebody else would appreciate the news

[Dubird 6,815]

what the fuck is he going to do with a PICTURE of a robot and gun....... on a plane...

Coming next summer: Robots on a Plane!

[HKofsesshoumaru 673]

When I was flying out Saturday, they shut down a terminal on at phoenix sky harbor for a security breech, which I believe turned out to be a dasani bottle. But a t-shirt? Wtf?

[slippers 3,168]

My govt teacher from the last semester said her son has to go through an extra security everytime he goes to an airport because her son's name matches one of those terrorists. That's like having a suspicion because you have a common name like John Smith.

I hope his friend was pulling a prank or something, otherwise that's just stupid.

[Myk JL 1,731]

Coming next summer: Robots on a Plane!

With a twist ending where the plane transforms into a robot...

[Dubird 6,815]

With a twist ending where the plane transforms into a robot...

.....squishing everyone that's on the plane into a bloody goo. Except Sammuel L. Jackson, because he's a badass who will steal a jet and battle the giant plane-bot.

[Myk JL 1,731]

.....squishing everyone that's on the plane into a bloody goo. Except Sammuel L. Jackson, because he's a badass who will steal a jet and battle the giant plane-bot.

Once the battle is over Samuel L. Jackson lands the jet and says he's tired of these mother fucking transformers references in this mother fucking movie.

Once the credits end the jet transforms into a magic bullet blender pissing off a lot of robot fans that thought it would be StarScream.

[Dubird 6,815]

Once the battle is over Samuel L. Jackson lands the jet and says he's tired of these mother fucking transformers references in this mother fucking movie.

Once the credits end the jet transforms into a magic bullet blender pissing off a lot of robot fans that thought it would be StarScream.

He then punches his way out of the movie and beats up everyone that dared to watch the movie, simply because he didn't want to make a SoaP sequal.

[Ladywriter 7,783]

you guys made an rpg outta this story X'D

[Dubird 6,815]

you guys made an rpg outta this story X'D

RPG nothing, that would be just about the Coolest Movie Ever. The only thing that would make it cooler would be if Chuck Norris teamed up with Sammuel L. Jackson, and together they went out and defeated the Zentradi with nothing more than a pair of lightsabers and a whip.

[Myk JL 1,731]

I smell an Oscar!... And a wierd thought of one of them cosplaying as Epyon...