Its true: The Brits are frickin' idiots

I didn't realize there was another place on Earth that could possibly be even MORE politically correct than parts of the United States. Then I stumbled upon this article about a man who was harassed by a security guard at London's Heathrow airport because the shirt he was wearing was deemed as OFFENSIVE.

What was on the shirt? Why, leader of the Autobots, the Transformer Optimus Prime, that's who! Apparently the British, while being the first world power to make the slave trade illegal, still harbor some deep resentment toward autonomous alien life and feel deeply offended by any image of those rascally robots. "They transform into cars! My God, one could be parked outside my flat right now, ready to run me over the second I step foot on the curb!"



While the danger Transformers pose to air travel is debatable (admittedly, those evil Decepticons *are* the only Transformers capable of flight, and anyone who saw last summer's blockbuster documentary on the alien race, titled "Transformers", saw that Starscream has a penchant for blowing our Air Force fighter jets out of the sky without remorse), I think we can all agree that a young man wearing an image of the heroic Optimus Prime on his shirt poses NO real threat to the other passengers.

Maybe the problem lies in the fact that the security guard mistakenly believes the Transformer in question is Megatron, the evil leader of the Decepticons and arch-nemesis to Optimus Prime. He's one to worry about to be sure.

Thank God I live in America, though, where we can actually call a Transformer "friend" without fear of reprisal by the racist, anti-robot movement, and then use him as our personal chauffeur and have him drive us around the city whenever we demand it.

--Cbake