Airport Security
I thought airport security was over the top when I couldn’t get into an airport because I was carrying a windproof lighter as “It could be used as a weapon” but this is just plain downright ridiculous.
Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, was stopped from boarding because his Transformers T-shirt depicted a robot with a gun. Now I know that the Brits have become all new age sensitive and namby-pamby about guns but this was a picture for crying out loud. A picture of a cartoon show robot that kids all over the world watch.
Mr Jayakody said he had to change before boarding as security officers objected to the gun, held by the cartoon character.
Airport operator BAA said it was investigating the incident.
Mr Jayakody said the incident happened a few weeks ago, when he was challenged by an official during a pre-flight security check.
“He says, ‘we won’t be able to let you through because your T-shirt has got a gun on it’,” Mr Jayakody said.
“I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’.
“[The official's] supervisor comes over and goes ‘sorry we can’t let you through and you’ve a gun on your T-shirt’,” he 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.”
It’s bad enough that they took away our liquids and gels. This has been stretched to the extreme of lipsticks which are so far removed from gels that there is no comparison.
Looks like common sense is completely missing from airport security.
A BAA spokesman said there was no record of the incident and no “formal complaint” had been made.
“If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it, for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it,” he said.
“We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.
“If it’s offensive, we don’t want other passengers upset.”
Are we eventually going to have to be naked and sedated to even think about boarding an aircraft?
Gun T-shirt ‘was a security risk’ BBC
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