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Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt
Cigarra writes "PhD student Arijit learned the hard way that in Brave New America you can't mock TSA's Security Theater and go on about your business. According to a recollection in RT.com: 'After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane. The pilot of the aircraft, however, had had enough of the whole ordeal and asked the Delta supervisor to relay the message that, due to the discomfort the shirt had caused, neither Arijit nor his wife would be allowed to board the aircraft.' Just how much humiliation is the general American public willing to tolerate in the name of 'security'?"
I mean come on "Arijit" clearly a terrorist threat.
If the Miss Universe pageant had been boarding that plane, the TSA would have been to busy putting them through the body scanner to even notice this guy's shirt.
sudo make me a sandwich
It's not toleration. It's just that it doesn't have anything to do with the Kardashians.
I would totally do this, but my wife would kill me. I'm far more afraid of her displeasure than that of some TSA idiot.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
I once unthinkingly put on a t-shirt that had a machine gun on it on the day I was travelling. At security I was asked to turn it inside out (by the guys with actual machine guns), which I did, and that was that. Thankfully I wasn't wearing one of my other t-shirts...
I guess a t-shirt with a hand pointing to your wife with the caption "She likes being patted down." is out of the question.
I would only wear that if I wanted a divorce or felt the need to be turned into a eunuch while I sleep.
Time to offend someone
Please note: I don't say what the pilot did was right, but he had the right to make that descision.
This is what happens when make pilots stop drinking before their flights ...
I'm not sure my wife would wait that long...
There is so much naivete in this post, I'm naming it Bambi.
You can. I've seen it done on redtube.
Clinically correct language: take it or leave it, but you can't have it both ways.
Sure you can. If you are stupid.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
http://xkcd.com/651/
I find it hard to take anyone seriously that uses the word "retarded" as a synonym of "dumb".
Since I doubt he meant to observe that slashdot can't speak...
I find it hard to take anyone seriously that uses the word "dumb" as a synonym of "stupid", while getting butthurt about "retarded". Clinically correct language: take it or leave it, but you can't have it both ways.
The irony does not stop there. His nickname is also MickyTheIdiot. Idiot used to be a psychology term for a particular level of mental retardation.
It's not bigotry unless you fixate on its presumed complement as well: "non-white people are not annoying".
I tend to see that GPP is right, just not comprehensive.
Logical induction: "People are annoying. White people are people. Therefore, white people are annoying. QED."
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