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 Heathrow’s Terminal 5.
IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to Dusseldorf, Germany — asked to see the security chief.
He thought the boss would “see sense” — but he backed up the decision and threatened him with ARREST. 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’.” ..continue..

And the reasons why I don’t fly continue to pile up.

Seriously….

I am stuck in a sort of Comcast Purgatory. Stuck between being too close to Philadelphia yet being too far away from Philly to be a Flyers fan. I am not the only one. Icer44 in that thread is almost an hour closer to Philly then I am. I live about a 138 miles, 2 hours and 39 minutes drive away from the Wachovia center.

There are 2 ways to pick up the majority of the Philadelphia Flyers games. One is to watch Comcast SportsNet(CSN) Philadelphia, the other is to pick up the NHL Center Ice Package. In my area neither works for me with Comcast.

I moved up to a small town in Adams County Pennsylvania back in 2001. Back then we had a choice for cable companies, GS Communications and Susquehanna Communications (Suscom). Neither provider offered CSN Philly, instead carried what is now called CSN Mid-Atlantic. At the time it carried the Orioles along with Wizards basketball and Capitals hockey. At the time it appeared that carrying that channel instead of CSN Philly made a little sense. Even though my tiny town is in PA, I am closer to Balitmore and even DC then I am Philly or Pittsburgh. We are considered the Baltimore market, closer to the Orioles then the Phillies.
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