Stereophonics’ singer Kelly Jones sparked an airport security alert last week when boarding a flight out of Londons Heathrow Airport for wearing a t-shirt with the print of a gun.
According to reports Kelly was about to board the flight when he found himself questioned after repeatedly setting off the metal detector, he was then hassled by a security guard for his t-shirt who claimed it would prevent him from flying at all.
“I beeped as I went through the metal detector”, Jones is quoted by website Contact Music as saying, “So they took my belt, watch and phone off.
“The guy takes me aside and says, ‘You know you’re not supposed to wear that.’ I said, ‘Not supposed to wear what?’ I honestly didn’t have a clue.”
A security man then pointed to the singer’s T-shirt – which featured a picture of a pistol with a flame coming out of the top.
“I was like, ‘What am I going to do with a gun on a T-shirt?'” Jones continued, “So he called his superior over. By this point I was like ‘You’re having a laugh, mate.’ He started asking me if it was embossed with anything, but it wasn’t.
“I thought he was going to ask me to strip down and change. I mean, it’s not as if my T-shirt was loaded.”
From Stereophonics News via Cosmic Iguana via Michael Froomkin.