I Must Be Dangerous

This guy says he was made to change his T-shirt before being allowed to board an airplane. That's because the garment featured a picture of a cartoon character holding a gun [via Radley].

An airport spokesman says the ban shouldn't be a surprise:

"If a T-shirt had a rude word or a bomb on it, for example, a passenger may be asked to remove it."

Uh-oh. If I ever want to fly again, I'd better start saving up for a prosthetic arm; clearly, my left biceps is currently inadmissible on a plane.

The right to bare arms: Ceci n'est pas une bombe

Comments

[Your Mother]

Someone with a tattoo that lame shouldn't be allowed to...live.

[mooP]

Bandaid! And thus you threatening terrorist ways have been neutralized! :D

[frank delfudgio]

It probably doesn't help that your tattoo looks like it was acquired during a jail sentence. I think this is a good time for you to consider either a good cover up job, or try some nice painful laser removal service. Or, for a nominal fee, I can remove the offending limb. By now, with the magic of the interweb, you've probably already been banned from even catching a cab (unless it is terrorist operated) y posting this. Nice work champ.

[Rogier]

Frank:

My cellmate Freddie "the Ghoul" d'Annunzio will have you know that he's rather proud of the tattoo he so lovingly inked on my upper arm years ago, during his first stint here at Leavenworth. Parole board willing, the Fredster would like to drop by your place later this year for a frank discussion about art. Please forward your particulars.

[Ash]

Oh NO! A problem you HAVE YET TO HAVE! What ever will we do!?! You are a DANGEROUS MAN! Society is surely learning its lesson from your radical statement!

[Ash]

Oh NO! A problem you HAVE YET TO HAVE! What ever will we do!?! You are a DANGEROUS MAN! Society is surely learning its lesson from your radical statement!

[anon]

simple: leave behind the wife beater and wear a shirt with sleeves.

[Rogier]

Anon:

Won't do any good.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2008/05/26/toc_20080519

[tee em pee]

wear a regular t-shirt
not a tank top/wifebeater
you have little to show off
you tool

problem solved

[Edward McKeown]

"If it's offensive, we don't want other passengers upset."

If I had known that, I would have made complaints on trips that I took. People with too much perfume, kids kicking the back of my seat, adults kicking the back of my seat, guys wearing suits and ties, just to name a few of the things that make me upset when flying...

I was wearing a black shirt with a big tattooed guy smoking a cigar...

[F.]

Heh. What about this poor fool? http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m221/ankerman1/GunTattoo.jpg

[jc]

Wow. cheap tattoo.

Have someone who knows what they're doing replace it with daffy duck holding a better looking bomb, about to get his beak blown backwards. Then the TSA guys will wax nostalgic for their childhoods instead of treat you like a criminal

[dummy]

Um, wear a shirt with a sleeve?

Is that too much to ask? (Yeah, yeah, the rules are stupid, the terrorists are winning, yada, yada, yada; do you want to fly or not?)

[Hosebeast]

You can see where the tattoo "artist" messed up and made the bomb too small the first time around -- the highlight and fuse to the old bomb are still visible. My suggestion: keep increasing the size of the bomb, eventually it will cover such a large area that security will assume it's some strange skin affliction and push you through faster. Problem solved.

[Mike]

I guess I'd be banned too then. I have a bomb tatoo. Of course having it look like a bomb was a little too obvious, as a real terrorist I stuck the bomb tatoo inside a fluffy bunny tatoo so you can't actually see it, but rest assured it is a tatoo of a bomb.