Ban on Flying With Gun Memorabilia
A British guy got turfed off a plane for wearing… a Transformers T Shirt?
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?
An American woman got turfed off a plane for wearing… a necklace?
“How do you know it wasn’t a real gun?” asked Guy, a security agent with the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, who also declined to provide his last name. “Who knows if there is a gun that small that can shoot bullets? You don’t know that. They followed the rules.”
Richard comments,
The arguments offered to defend them show the insane frame of mind of the security state: grasp at straws to justify whatever they do, rather than admit being mistaken. That insanity is much more dangerous than any non-state-sponsored terrorists.
I’ll have to hit up eBay for gun memorabilia :-)
(Via a random visit to boingboing - avoid BB because its addictive - and Richard’s blog :-)
The Ban on Flying With Gun Memorabilia by David Crossland, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
June 3, 2008 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts
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