T-shirt a risk to security?

[Blackjack Gabbiani]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006420095,00.html (article includes a picture of the offending shirt. Worksafe)

T-shirt a risk to air security

By ANDREW PARKER
September 11, 2006

A TOURIST was told to turn his T-shirt inside-out at an airport — as a picture of two guns on it was deemed a SECURITY RISK.

Dave Osborne, 21, was bound for Newark, New Jersey, when guards hauled him out of the queue for his Guns N Rollers T-shirt.

They told him the two pistols on the front could constitute a security risk and upset passengers.

He was ordered to turn his top inside out before boarding.

The design engineer from Lichfield, Staffs, said: “I am all for extra security but this was just plain stupid.”

Last night bosses at Birmingham International Airport apologised and said security guards “over-reacted”.

 

[Coffee]

... Wow...

Just wow...

 

[GrnMarvl14]

Freaking hilarious. Although I prefer the story about the Orthodox Jew who was pulled off a plane because his praying was upsetting the other passengers.

 

[Habunake]

Those fabric 2-D guns are SERIOUS BUSINESS!

Remind me not to wear my Bom-omb Tee-shirt!

 

[Barb]

Over-reacted is right. That's ridiculous.

 

[Nekusagi]

Sad.

Reminds me of the lady who had to take the toy gun out of the GI Joe...

 

[Argy]

A hippie kid with whom I went to high school had to change out of two t-shirts as ordered by the principal. One said "Drop Bush, Not Bombs," and the other had a picture of John Lennon with the phrase "Imagine Peace."

 

[Fig]

I can sort of guess at a reasoning for that, though.

Assuming there are some "pro-war" kids at school, the shirt may have majorly distracted them from their studying.

Not very good, but I can sort of see it all the same...

 

[Zeta]

How dare someone try to promote peace?! War IS Peace!

Without War, how will we spread our magical freedom energies across the world?

 

[Otter Mii-kun]

same old, same old

It's the same thing every time...
Safety and Security (and Welfare) trump Freedom and Liberty every time... Need I say more?

Although I prefer the story about the Orthodox Jew who was pulled off a plane because his praying was upsetting the other passengers.

This increasingly socialist, globalzed society is ever getting more oppresive by the minute! Won't be long until we're all in a one-world dictatorship. (in fact, we could very well be in it already!)