TRANSFORMERS POSER HARASSED AT AIRPORT

An airline passenger claimed that a security guard threatened to arrest him because he was wearing a T-shirt showing a cartoon robot with a gun. Brad Jayakody, 30, from London, said he was stopped from passing through security at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after his Transformers T-shirt was deemed 'offensive. [pic shows tshirt worn during encounter]

Mr Jayakody said the first guard started joking with him about the Transformers character depicted on his French Connection T-shirt.

'"Then he explains that since Megatron is holding a gun, I'm not allowed to fly,' he said.

'It's a 40ft 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?

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.

Ok, I don't know what irks me more here.... the fact that the airline made him take off the shirt of a cartoon robot.... or the fact that this dude just called Optimus Prime "MEGATRON". This being JimSmash, I'm going with the Megatron remark. Bah!!!

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