Optimus Prime t-shirt prevents man from boarding flight.

He should have argued that it's not Megatron, since that is obviously not Megatron on the shirt. He could have gotten away with it.

Were they expecting the Optimus to leap off the shirt and start firing lint at everyone?

C'mon, my mum wore my G1 Megatron shirt to work (she works at an elementary school) for Cartoon Day. But no one there knows what he transforms into, sooo...

That is ridiculous

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WTF??????? Damn idiots

this is the most stupidest thing i have ever read... oh if you fly southwest
don't wear your optimus prime shirt

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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.

Maybe they were G1 Fanboys and hated the movie for 'raping their childhood'?

Thats the only vaguely logical explanation I can think of.

Or to protect idiots who can't tell the difference between a graphic on a shirt, and a real gun.

Ummm... wow. Just wow.

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Just imagine how much worse it could have been; as the guy was going on a business trip, he may have been in business class - and they still give you proper cutlery you can stab people with in there, for some reason that totally flies in the face of so-called security. And, given the glaring danger signal of that t-shirt, they couldn't have taken that risk...



Presumably, the security people were bored or having a bad day and decided to take it out on someone random. Aren't people wonderful sometimes?

You can sue them. Now that would be hilarious. "give me the money or ill shoot with my shirt! It can shoot chest hair!"

wow ask a ninja was right. 85% of humans are idiots.

It was Judgment Day! And we got sent to the bad place! The BAD place!

I came, I saw, I got kicked in the face by Chuck Norris.

there aint words for how messed up that is