Heathrow Airport guards stopped a man boarding a plane - for wearing a Transformers T-shirt showing a cartoon gun. Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Terminal 5.
The IT consultant was booked on a British Airways flight with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany. He asked to see the security chief thinking the boss would 'see sense' - but he backed the decision and threatened Brad with arrest.
The top has the Transformers film character Optimus Prime on the front. Aussie born Brad, of Bayswater, West London, said: 'It's a cartoon robot with a gun as an arm. What was I going to do, use the shirt to pretend I have a gun? I was flabbergasted. I thought the supervisor would come over and see sense, but he didn't. After I changed he said if I changed back I would be arrested.'
A spokesman for Heathrow operator BAA defended the decision. He said: 'If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it. We are investigating what happened to see if it came under this category.' |
