of guy wears transformer t-shirt. airport security says "you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your t-shirt"

No t-shirt, no flight: Brad Jayakody relates his account at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. He was wearing a French Connection Transformer T-shirt showing Optimus Prime holding a gun. But the Security Supervisor stops him from passing through security and says to him

You cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt.

Brad gives an account of what happened,

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.

A snapshot of the FCUK Transformer T-Shirt that Brad wore.



A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA says,

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.

You can read more at Sun ("Transformers shirt gets jet ban") and BBC ("Gun T-shirt 'was a security risk'").