Just me, or World gone mad?

[Snuggle Ferret]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7431640.stm

[Admiral Huddy]

I saw this on the news last night.. Totaly insane. As a caller said, they should concentrate on more serious security matters.

That said, if dress comes into the equation of security, then maybe they should consider banning the wearing of veils and chadrils because I feel more uncomfortable with people wearing those than anything else.

[Wryel]

I have that T-shirt! I'm going to wear it on my flight to see if I get stopped.

[Pheebs]

I have that T-shirt! I'm going to wear it on my flight to see if I get stopped.

LOLOL!

Hahahaha! Genius! ;D


It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. If that were I, I probably would have been blooming stubborn and refused to swap it. In fact, I would probably have questioned why the hell they had been studying my chest so hard to determine that my transformer had a gun in its hand.

Egits.

[petemc]

I liked Gizmodo's report.

A spokesman for the British Airports Authority said "If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it," and that sounds pretty fair. But this was a cartoon giant gun-toting robot... on a T-shirt, not a detailed photo recreation of a Glock that might be mistaken for the real deal at a quick glance.

Looks like Britain's safe from cartoon robot gun attacks, at least.

What you need is a tshirt that says "I'm da bomb"

[Lana]

i think I have an I'm da bomb tshirt at home...

[Wossi]

I wore my snakes on a plane tshirt on the way back from America the other month. Didn't quite realise the irony of it till I was mid flight :D

[Mondo]

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

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

Under Stupid I think.

I am so getting a Transformer T shirt for next time i am flying out of the country.

[Lomster]

My mum told me about this on sunday i thought it was the sun newspaper getting it wrong.

Stupid stupid stupid what the hell is going on in this world its a t-shirt ffs :shocked:

[Desmo]

The world HAS gone bonkers. Who in the hell comes up with these rules...probably some halfwit on £250K a year. Where has our common sense gone?

[Creature]

I've got a t-shirt with the cookie monster snorting cookies....recon i'd get searched more often if I wore that.

[semi-pro waster]

I've got a t-shirt with the cookie monster snorting cookies....recon i'd get searched more often if I wore that.

I can but hope, if they are following this to it's logical conclusion they should do - you might be encouraging drug taking.

If the story is true and there is nothing else to it then it is more than a little stupid, no-one could mistake a Transformers t-shirt for a gun. Even if it was a real gun I'm not entirely sure what the problem would be. I can just about understand banning rude words, offensive slogans or pictures but I don't think a gun falls into any of those categories.

[Creature]

I can but hope, if they are following this to it's logical conclusion they should do - you might be encouraging drug taking.Cheeky bassa :(

I also have one with Darth Vader walking an AT-AT....wonder what they'd try and do then =/

[petemc]

I'd imagine they'd use some sort of "force" to remove it ;)

[divine]

Come on guys, think about it!

It was a transformer, it could very feasibly have transformed into a real robot and destroyed the entire airport!!

Sensible decision tbh.