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Originally Posted by M1ke A
Both I'd say.
You have some minimum wage lackey on a power trip who makes a bad call. Their boss then has to back them up for fear of lossing face, even though everyone knows these people have just made themselves look utterly stupid.
The Register posted an article Heathrow T5 security tackles Transformers t-shirt threat | The Register describing such PC stupidity  
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... which led to this statement "Last year Gatwick guards made a woman hand over a beef sandwich before boarding and last week a PhD student was stopped for wearing a gun-shaped charm necklace at an airport in Canada"