Heathrow - What not to wear

[Rex Banner]

'Airport guards have stopped a man boarding a plane for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun.'

With any luck he changed into an 'Eat Plutonium Death' t-shirt.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2065320/Airport-staff-stop-passenger-boarding-for-wearing-Transformers-T-shirt.html" target="_blank">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2065320/Airport-staff-stop-passenger-boarding-for-wearing-Transformers-T-shirt.html

[johnnystress]

aaarrrgh! >:(

[Dark Jimbo]

Too crazy for words. Ten years ago noone would ever have believed this could really happen.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

i hope some humans rights dudes pick up & push this, problem is security can bully us all they like cos who is going to make a stand & miss that all important & expensive flight on a principal?

i feel a range of t shirts coming on

[JOE SOAP]

The fuckers took my toothpaste off me.

[Peter Wolf]

 Well why wasnt i surprised when i read that article ?


 Company Policy !  

"A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA said: "If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it.

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


 There is not exactly much to investigate.

 
 So you *may* be asked to remove a T Shirt that has a naughty rude word on it or a bomb but you will be *forced* to remove a T Shirt that has a picture of a kids robot on it unless you want to miss your flight.

 "New security measures  !! "

 "Company Policy !!  "

 "This company will not apologise for any disruption to your journey on the part of our employees absolute stupidity" said a spokesman earlier today.

[Steve Green]

That is absolutely mental.

- Steve

[Steve Green]

I can see someone going down to Heathrow with a range of 20 t-shirts to find the level of acceptability.

I suspect they'd rather just have everyone in white paper boiler suits and have done with it.

[Buttonman]

The po-facedness of these people is a bug bear of mine - there is no doubt heightened security is needed but do they have to be so by the book? Not that the book includes Transformers t-shirts I'm sure.

My worst experience was coming back from Bournemouth to Glasgow after a stag doo. Cleverly I packed light so I could carry on - big mistake.

My aftershave was OK as it was a 100ml bottle but my Lynx spray wasn't as it was 150ml. Toothpaste OK (but a face made as it was a bit grotty at the end) but my hangover cure Irn bru wasn't. After sorting out the acceptable from the not the silly cow then put the 'good' items in a see thru plastic bag and then back into my soap bag.

What a complete waste of time - if I wanted to carry 150ml of plastic explosive I'd have stuffed it up my arse where it would take several bloodhounds to locate!

[Buddy]

We now have to have our shoes checked out after the 'shoe bomber' incident.

If someone ever manages to sneak a bomb onto a plane in their knickers will we then have to remove our underwear before boarding an aircraft?

It's like dealing with the keystone cops.

[Queen Firey-Bou]

the shoes thing pisses me off, i wear big clumpy walking boots with extra support built in by orthotics nhs people cos i've got crippled painful feet. So every bloody time i fly i have to remove my boots, and walking hurts without them... it occured to me to kick up a fuss & demand a wheelchair, but thats just stupid & pedantic & i'd get arrested.

eeek poor mini-bou is flying from heathrow 5 next month with a bunch of wheelchairs & specialist medical equipment, that'll be fun.

[Dark Jimbo]

I can see someone going down to Heathrow with a range of 20 t-shirts to find the level of acceptability.


You've probably just given some hack reporter for the Sun or Daily Mail an idea for a double-page feature.

[Peter Wolf]

 I would very happily fly with nothing but my CKs and no hand luggage if it made it quicker and easier and meant not dealing with Halfwits at security.

[the shutdown man]

So do I dare wearing my Torquemada "Death to Deviants!" shirt through airport security? Or gun-toting Savage saying "Laugh this off twinkletoes!"?

[Peter Wolf]

What about my Death to the Infidel  T  shirt ?