Watching the news last night I was shocked but not altogether surprised by the story of Brad Jayakodi who was made to change his T Shirt in the security queue at Heathrow Airport because the idiot on security took exception to his Transformers T Shirt. In this clown's opinion other passengers would be upset by the picture of a robot with a gun.
This ridiculous assumption was upheld by a supervisor and Mr Jayakody was told he would be arrested if he later put the T Shirt back on. Now I could understand perhaps if the T Shirt had a hard core porn image or a message full of fuck this and fuck that, but a sci fi robot based on a popular children's toy? Are BAA about to do the same to any child wearing a Transformers T Shirt or perhaps one of Elmer Fudd with his shotgun hunting wabbits.
I understand the need for security at airports, but in my opinion its not up to these people to censor what people wear. I guess the problem is that many of the people attracted to this kind of work get turned on by the seemingly unlimited power they wield and the opportunity to bully members of the public.
BAA claimed that no complaint had been received about Mr Jayakodi's treatment, but then is that a surprise when someone is in a hurry to catch a flight?
