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Optimus Prime banned from flying

An IT consultant was threatened with arrest for wearing a t-shirt with Optimus Prime on the front by security guards at London's Heathrow airport.

Aussie-born Brad said: "My mate set off the alarms and was searched. But then the guy told me to stop and said ‘you cannot get on the plane because there is a gun on your T-shirt’."

After asking to speak to a manager, who he hoped would see sense Brad, 30, was told that if he put the shirt back on he would face arrest.

Maybe the thought he would use the CG Ion Blaster printed the shirt to gain access to the cockpit of a plane and cause another terrorist attack, or maybe the 22 foot tall Autobot would get loose and... oh wait, it was a picture printed on a shirt.

We've got to start wondering what kind of meat heads work in these jobs. A nutjob with a nail-bomb can get on a bus but a geek wearing a Transformers top can't get onto an aeroplane. It really beggars belief.

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