Transformer T-Shirt Alarms Security
June 2, 2008
(Image: BBC News)
Recently at London’s Heathrow airport, security thought there was “more than meets the eye” regarding a harmless Transformers t-shirt worn by a would-be passenger. Because the overly-cautious security personel didn’t like the idea of a cartoon character with a gun on his shirt, they wouldn’t let him board the plane!
“He says, ‘we won’t be able to let you through because your T-shirt has got a gun on it’,” Mr Jayakody said. Mr Jayakody said he had to strip and change his T-shirt there before he was allowed to board his flight. “I was just looking for someone with a bit of common sense,” he said. It’s a cartoon robot what threat is it to security or offensive to anyone at all.”
That said, we’d like to remind you that StarwarsShop.com has plenty of Star Wars shirts depicting characters holding blasters and other weapons in addition to the usual lightsabers, if any of you feel like testing this theory that some security measures might be going a bit far.
Star Wars Shirts with Weapons:
- Boba Fett with Blaster T-shirt
- Gamorrean Guard with Axe T-shirt
- Clone Wars trooper with two guns T-shirt
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SOURCES: BBC News, BoingBoing.net
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June 2, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Oh my God!!! this is the dumbest terrorist paranoid action I´ve read, C´mon its just too much
And the most disturbing about this its that it just an example of the times we are living… People can not be free if they are scared, we just reach our paranoia to our tshirts, whats next??? underware???
June 2, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Oh wow. That’s ridiculous! Poor guy…Had to get another shirt dirty and everything. What a waste of personnel and resources. Absolutely a waste.
June 3, 2008 at 2:45 am
This situation is getting seriously out of hand …
June 3, 2008 at 3:08 pm
If we don’t wear Transformer shirts, then the terrorists win!