[Infowarrior] - UK airport blocks guy in 'Transformers' t-shirt

[Richard Forno]

No t-shirt, no flight

Going out to Dusseldorf for work.

Flying British Airways, leaving from terminal 5.

Go through security, get pulled to the side. I'm wearing a French  
Connection Transformers t-shirt. Bloke starts joking with me is that  
Megatron. Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm  
not allowed to fly. WTF? It's a 40 foot 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?

Now here's the stupid part. I was only taking carry on luggage, so my  
clothes were in my bag, so I said I'd get changed. So I stripped off  
at security and changed t-shirts, putting the "offensive" t-shirt in  
my bag. Now I haven't been a dick so far, I've done what they've said.  
No point in arguing with the drones.

The supervisor comes over and is now a dick to me, telling me if I put  
the shirt on I'll be arrested. I then told him that I wasn't going to  
waste time arguing with him and he wasn't worth the effort and didn't  
have any power to change anything anyway. With hindsight I should have  
said, yeah arrest me, great publicity for you guys to arrest a bloke  
wearing a transformers t-shirt.

And here's a picture of the "offending" t-shirt. Tossers.

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