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'You've a gun on your T-shirt'
Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 13 july 08 | Vin Suprynowicz

Posted on 07/13/2008 6:05:20 AM PDT by rellimpank

A "man wearing a T-shirt depicting a cartoon character holding a gun was stopped from boarding a flight by the security at Heathrow's Terminal 5," The BBC reported on June 1.

Brad Jayakody, from Bayswater, central London, said he was "stumped" at the objection to his Transformers T-shirt.

Mr. Jayakody, a clean-shaven young man with eyeglasses and short hair, said the incident happened in mid May, 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 told reporters.

"I was like, 'What are you talking about?'

"(The goon's) supervisor comes over and goes, 'Sorry, we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; lhr; suprynowicz; tshirt
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1 posted on 07/13/2008 6:05:20 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank; humblegunner; Eaker; TheMom; Squantos

Good grief.


2 posted on 07/13/2008 6:06:59 AM PDT by Allegra (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: rellimpank
Sorry, we can't let you through and you've a gun on your T-shirt.

But was it loaded?

3 posted on 07/13/2008 6:07:14 AM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem

Sorry, we can’t let you through and you’ve a gun on your T-shirt.

But was it loaded?

NO. But it seems the Terminal Officials may have been....


4 posted on 07/13/2008 6:10:05 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Got Freedom ? Thank a Veteran...... Want to keep Freedom? Don't vote Obama)
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To: rellimpank

That will never happen here. We have freedom of speach and the RKBA. /s


5 posted on 07/13/2008 6:11:44 AM PDT by umgud
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To: txflake

You can’t make this stuff up ping


6 posted on 07/13/2008 6:12:43 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
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To: Allegra

So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.


7 posted on 07/13/2008 6:13:30 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: rellimpank

How about not letting folks with Korans on the plane? Better chance of catching a perp.


8 posted on 07/13/2008 6:13:56 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: stevem
No matter; pictures of guns are the most dangerous weapons of all. The guy should have added a turban to his attire - they wouldn't have dared hassle him then.
9 posted on 07/13/2008 6:13:57 AM PDT by Tabi Katz
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To: rellimpank
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Rene Magritte.

Trans: This is not a pipe. (It's a painting of a pipe, stupid!)

Guns don't kill people, T-shirts do.
10 posted on 07/13/2008 6:13:59 AM PDT by newheart (The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
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To: rellimpank; All
Obama Gang-Bang Sign Language
11 posted on 07/13/2008 6:16:29 AM PDT by musicman
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To: rellimpank
Old news was posted back when it happened.
12 posted on 07/13/2008 6:17:43 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: musicman
"I'm gonna' bust a cap into his a$$. No-ones gonna threaten to lop off my nads"
13 posted on 07/13/2008 6:20:47 AM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: rellimpank

Is that a gun on your t-shirt? Or are you just happy to see us?


14 posted on 07/13/2008 6:20:52 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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To: Tabi Katz

Ummm....Jayakody is probably of South Asian/Indian origin. The turban wouldn’t have been enough....he should have also grown a foot-long beard and shouldhave had a few bombs strapped to his chest.

This true muslim get up would have gotten him through.


15 posted on 07/13/2008 6:22:05 AM PDT by indcons
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To: musicman

I wonder if Jesse and Barak had the open mike thing planned or if there is really hard feelings there?


16 posted on 07/13/2008 6:22:47 AM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: Tijeras_Slim
So I guess my Dirty Harry boxers are out of the question.

I was thinking the same about my NRA boxers as well.

17 posted on 07/13/2008 6:26:21 AM PDT by TYVets
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To: BOBWADE

IMHO,...REAL HARD FEELINGS!!! If Barak wins, then it’s JESSE who gets PERMANENTLY “politically neutered”.


18 posted on 07/13/2008 6:29:08 AM PDT by musicman
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To: musicman

Call the FBI. That guy in the tie looks WAY too dangerous to be let within even 100 yards of the White House.


19 posted on 07/13/2008 6:30:10 AM PDT by DrC
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To: rellimpank

If the almost passenger had worn a shirt over his T-shirt it have been a concealed handgun picture. He’d have probably been shot on the spot.


20 posted on 07/13/2008 6:43:04 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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