Brad Jayakody was recently stopped from boarding a plane at London Heathrow Terminal 5, for wearing a FCUK transformers t-shirt depicting Optimus Prime.

From Brad,
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?
Luckily he was able to change and board the flight, but not before the security guard had finished hassling him. Actually I own this t-shirt too, it doesn’t look in the slightest bit ‘dangerous’, I guess its just another example of security going one step to far?
Read about the even on Brad Jayakody’s blog “The Edge of Madness”
[Via boingboing]