Kicked off a plane for wearing a funny t-shirt

You don't need to be an actual threat to get the Das Boot - you can just be wearing the wrong shirt.

Ariz. grad student booted from flight for wearing funny anti-TSA shirt

Arijit recounts the horrors he experienced while attempting to fly from Buffalo-Niagara International Airport to Phoenix over the weekend after attending a funeral. In around 3,000 words he goes into great detail about being booted from a domestic flight, getting stuck renting a car and scrounging for overnight accommodations

So. Lesson learned, dumbberkeley? If some knob came in my shop wearing a shirt that said "Mike is an shiny happy person, check out how cool and ironic I'm being by wearing this shirt in his shop" I'd show him the door.

So dumb, on both sides.

I think the TSA is a joke as well, but I don't going wearing t-shirts proclaiming it.

I think the little prick got what he deserved. He was looking for trouble and got it. And if he is on a student visa, they should revoke it and deport his butt. But I am profiling (not racially) and assume that, based on his name, he isn't an American citizen. I could be wrong.

Nice, so a "funny" name means he's not American and the 1st amendment only applies with speech you agree with. Do you know how bigoted and dumb that makes you sound? I believe Arijit is an American citizen, and every bit as much of an American as you or I. ASSuming someone's foreign because of a funny name is really, really dumb.

Like I said, lots of dumb on both sides, but the kid didn't get what he deserved. You don't deserve bullE36 M3 like that just because you say what you believe.

Good grief, its a berkeleying T-shirt. The TSA didn't have an issue with it at first, they passed him through. It was the dumbberkeleys at the terminal that got butt-hurt over it after customers complained.

spitfirebill wrote: I think the little prick got what he deserved. He was looking for trouble and got it.

I suppose you can think of it like that. I like that people do protest though and "looking for trouble" is really the only way to make a splash. Also, it wasn't a TSA shirt - it was a homeland security spoof (splitting hairs I know).

I am just surprised that after you have got all the way thru security, all the way to the boarding line having determined you are not a threat, someone didn't smell a PR problem and ask him to turn it inside out. I mean, they could have fingered his diddlyhole way back at the beginning if they were really upset. It was the pilot who pulled his ticket not the TSA. Probably because he was fed up with having his flight delayed. That is more like an impatient bus driver.

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LOL nice shirt, but if a quote from the US constitution on a shirt will get you in trouble then you can bet this shirt will.

Did you know that you're not allowed to mail playing cards to Germany - unless they're in a sealed deck?

Keith wrote: Did you know that you're not allowed to mail playing cards to Germany - unless they're in a sealed deck?

No, but I'm going to waste $2 to try it now that you said that.

dculberson wrote: Nice, so a "funny" name means he's not American and the 1st amendment only applies with speech you agree with. Do you know how bigoted and dumb that makes you sound? I believe Arijit is an American citizen, and every bit as much of an American as you or I. ASSuming someone's foreign because of a funny name is really, really dumb. Like I said, lots of dumb on both sides, but the kid didn't get what he deserved. You don't deserve bullE36 M3 like that just because you say what you believe.

I stand by my first two statements. I don't think trying to get on an airplane is the approprate place to tickle th tail of the dragon.

Did you read the "if" I put in there?

Actually I feel that if someone gets all the way through advanced screening and nothing is found, they should be allowed to board a plane. Problem is, the bad guys are trying to stay ahead of the curve.

Keith wrote: Did you know that you're not allowed to mail playing cards to Germany - unless they're in a sealed deck?

I once stuck a spork into a plain white envelope and mailed it across the country to a friend of mine who is a research librarian at a university. I figured that she would be the only librarian in the country who would know for certain if it could be done, if asked by a student.

Alas, I doubt that I could get away with such a dangerous stunt today.

dculberson wrote: Nice, so a "funny" name means he's not American and the 1st amendment only applies with speech you agree with. Do you know how bigoted and dumb that makes you sound? I believe Arijit is an American citizen, and every bit as much of an American as you or I. ASSuming someone's foreign because of a funny name is really, really dumb. Like I said, lots of dumb on both sides, but the kid didn't get what he deserved. You don't deserve bullE36 M3 like that just because you say what you believe.

I think you took the bait.... because I smelled fish HARD on that one. Trout maybe? No... not quite right.... Carp? No... Flounder. Definately Flounder.

Bobzilla wrote: I think you took the bait.... because I smelled fish HARD on that one. Trout maybe? No... not quite right.... Carp? No... Flounder. Definately Flounder.

True enough. Call me bait 'cause I've been hooked!

spitfirebill wrote: Problem is, the bad guys are trying to stay ahead of the curve.

I'm pretty sure the real bad guys don't travel with their wives and wear funny t-shirts asking for extra attention from the people they are trying to slip past.

I'd like to believe it was an act of subtle protest he thought would be a clever way to incite a story for his blog that painted the TSA in a certain light. I don't think he succeeded.

We aren't free anymore. The terrorists have won.

Xceler8x wrote: We aren't free anymore. The terrorists have won.

Which terrorists; those assaulting Constitutional rights from the "outside" or from "within"?

oldsaw wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: We aren't free anymore. The terrorists have won.

Which terrorists; those assaulting Constitutional rights from the "outside" or from "within"?

Both.

Interesting back story

If I were Delta I'm not sure I'd want to start a PR/Media war with this guy. the tsa probably doesn't care or know the difference (waiting for black choppers now...).

oldsaw wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: We aren't free anymore. The terrorists have won.

Which terrorists; those assaulting Constitutional rights from the "outside" or from "within"?

First one, then the other. /MoonFarmer

z31maniac wrote:

oldsaw wrote:

Xceler8x wrote: We aren't free anymore. The terrorists have won.

Which terrorists; those assaulting Constitutional rights from the "outside" or from "within"?

Both.

nope, inside did the real damage, freedom is or has been erroded

Woody wrote:

Keith wrote: Did you know that you're not allowed to mail playing cards to Germany - unless they're in a sealed deck?

I once stuck a spork into a plain white envelope and mailed it across the country to a friend of mine who is a research librarian at a university. I figured that she would be the only librarian in the country who would know for certain if it could be done, if asked by a student. Alas, I doubt that I could get away with such a dangerous stunt today.

Don't leave us in suspense! Did the spork survive?

Spain also is a no-mail zone for rogue playing cards.

I'd be sure to give him a healthy searching, but allowing him to fly or not is up to the flight crew, not tsa.

We should start up a spork mailing ring.......USPS would love us

all of them I send out will have been splattered in red paint though