A man (on right) says he was nearly arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport because he was wearing a T-shirt featuring Optimus Prime from the Transformers movie holding a robot gun. After airport security reportedly deemed the shirt too “offensive” and said he could not board the plane, he promptly changed into a festive party boat. What is hilarious is that the guy doesn’t even know the correct name of the Transformer on his shirt. Then again, the shirt is by French Connection. Cool points reduced to zero.
“Then [airport guard] explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I’m not allowed to fly. 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?”
Heathrow–which owes me three months of my life back, read about it in my diary–says it’s investigating the man’s perturbed claim. In other news, Osama bin Laden snuck past security while all of this T-shirt drama was going on disguised as a Walkman belonging to a 14-year-old who thinks he’s cool as hell. More on this as it develops (i.e. don’t bookmark this).
Discuss: Are Transformers T-shirts by French Connection “offensive”? Do you think the “victim” will be forever pissed off about the incident? In your opinion will T2 have a lot of robots you think?Â
via Daily MailÂ
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am
Here is the video link Hunter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx1-ebyXNMY
Would be useful to post also, but since you didn’t, I will.
June 3rd, 2008 at 6:32 am
Well this sucks for him.
20 robots are a lot but i doubt we’d see them all on screen at the one time.
And wheres this diary??
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:18 am
Well its London, not America. They don’t have strong freedom of speech rights.
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am
I liked it better when T2 stood for Terminator 2.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 am
@ Jeff
Well, clearly nothing is sacred per Terminator.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/5595/truthbb7.jpg
not photoshopped.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pm
@ 9/11
LOL. You’re joking right?
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
you would think they’d be more worried about all the lost luggage still floating around after the terminal 5 debarcle. What next …
I’m sorry sir you cant board this plane bcause that ittsy-wittsie littel crocodile on your lacoste t-shirt might just escape and eat all the other passengers …
crocs-on-a-plane anyone ?
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
@ 9/11
LOL. You’d think at least he’d be wearing the right shirt but maybe Optimus Prime is doing some double dealing and we just don’t know about it.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
The owner of the shirt knew that it’s Optimus Prime. It’s the security guard who mistook him for Megatron. Check the blog post again: There’s an edit at the bottom.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
@ Centipeed
Not seeing any editor’s note et al on this story.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Similar thing happened to me about a month ago. I was wearing a Planet Terror shirt with the lovely Rose McGowan and her machine gun leg. Instead of noticing Rose’s main, beautiful assets…the weirdo security guard told me I’d be under “careful surveillance” due to t-shirt throughout the airport. Douchebag.
June 4th, 2008 at 7:54 am
you HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME…
HELLO trees meet forest…take a step back so you can see it..