Photo: Racist baghead at the airport

[BurtWorm]

http://gawker.com/5650279/hopefully-the-arabic-says-kick-me



Hopefully the Arabic Says 'Kick Me'

Spotted at a New York airport: A t-shirt that reads, "CAUTION STAY 100 METERS AWAY OR YOU WILL BE SHOT," in English and in Arabic. (At least, that's what the tipster thinks it says in Arabic.) A close-up is below.




I hope they searched its body cavities for the weapon its T-shirt advertises.

[Zephie]

1. How did he get through airport security

with a shirt threatening to shoot people?

[treestar]

2. My question too

[Brickbat]

22. First thing I thought too. Who gives a shit if it says it in Arabic? It says it in English, too!

[begin_within]

3. Notice how nobody will sit near him

The guy in the striped shirt is reading, and he doesn't see the back of the guy's shirt anyway.

[uppityperson]

4. From your link, that sign is on back of humvees in Iraq/Afghanistan

someone replies down a few in link in your OP:
He's a vet, obviously. That message adornes (adorned) the back of every HumVee in Iraq during the war. The same signs are on the backs of U.S. military vehicles in Afghanistan. It gives the U.S. military 'the right' to fire on other vehicles they 'deem' to be getting too close in traffic as they bull their convoys through busy intersections. The first time I saw them I thought they were absurd and showed just how big of buffoons the U.S. military ar

[panader0]

13. Thus he may not be a "baghead racist".

His shirt, and he may be brave to wear ut, are perhaps ironic, perhaps a protest.

[uppityperson]

26. He may or may not, but this does put a different slant on it perhaps

not ready to make a snap judgement based on incomplete information

[Jamastiene]

5. People with bravado like that are full of it

90% of the time. It's that other 10% you have to worry about and you have no way of knowing which kind they will be. I'm surprised he was allowed through security with that kind of threatening slogan on his shirt. What a racist asshole.

[X_Digger]

6. Those shirts have been available for quite a while..

http://www.spikestactical.com/z/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=79_108_120_109&products_id=34&zenid=t7mjiev2u5thb84d4a2mvbtde3

[Erose999]

7. What does it really say in Arabic?

Assuming he had that printed in New York chances are high that the person who printed it might actually be Muslim (or might just be a non-Muslim with a sense of humor).

I have a friend who knows Chinese and she says a lot of people who have the trendy "Asian letter" tattoos have some unflattering epithets they probably don't know about.

Here are 3 things I might put on there if the guy asked me to print such a shirt:

1.) I'm a little teabagger hear me shout.

2.) Sorry for painting your culture with such a broad brush, I'm just not that bright.

3.) Cavity search volunteer. How deep can you go?

[XemaSab]

9. I'm Louis Farrakhan

and I approve this message. :P

[marmar]

15. For all his faults, he's never threatened that.

nt

[pinboy3niner]

10. I believe it's merely the Arabic translation of the message

As uppityperson points out above, the T-shirt reproduces the warnings displayed on military vehicles in the war zones. It's a warning to civilian traffic to keep a distance--the troops in the convoys get pretty nervous when other vehicles try to get too close. Shirts like this are widely available and can be ordered online.

I wouldn't make any inferences about the guy's intent--he could be trying to express something, or he could just like the shirt because that message is a familiar part of his experience on deployment.

I have an old shirt that's similar--printed on it is the message: "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY." If I wear it, it's not to express some macho hostility, it's just a joke that other vets recognize and smile at. Some people are so klutzy that the Army had to have that message displayed --in raised letters--on the front of its Claymore mines, to reduce incidents of troops positioning them the wrong way--and blowing themselves away. To me, the message on my shirt is nothing more than an inside joke.

[BurtWorm]

11. Not too bright to wear something like that in this atmosphere

when Islamophobia is rampant. Unless you get a kick out of making Muslims or Arabs feel uncomfortable, in which it's not too human.

[pinboy3niner]

14. That's true

It may not be something he's given any thought to, especially if he's coming off a deployment. Or he may be Islamophobic. I can't really tell how he feels about it or what his intent is, just from the fact that he's wearing the shirt.

[ThatsMyBarack]

17. K&R....

Just for YOU, Erose999! :rofl:

[Orsino]

18. "Stupid American bought my t-shirt."

"My dog defiled his couscous."

[onehandle]

8. He'd probably wet himself before he could even find his gun.

Most would be Dirty Harrys would.

[AldebTX]

12. I Think The Hat

Adds to the ensemble....

[Bitwit1234]

16. Gee Mr. Hat maybe the person who "gets too damn close"

has a concealed weapon...you know you racist, scumbag, hypo critic tea bag republicans aren't the only ones who know how to shoot.

[walldude]

19. Exercising his first amendment right to be a complete and

utter asshole. Murika... Fuck Yeah!

Oh and.... Great Hat :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[frogmarch]

20. My hovercraft is full of eels.

That's what it says.

[ThatsMyBarack]

21. If airport security let THIS guy through....

They BETTER let me through with my figure skates when I fly to Vegas to compete next week!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. I once saw an overweight pasty faced family meeting their armed forces kid

in the Columbus airport. They were all wearing this shirt. In the back of the shirt there was what was supposed to be Arabic writing. Because I'm so sure that phrase translates so clearly into Arabic.

[Erose999]

24. One thing is for sure... wearing this shirt implies that he's armed.

I think airport security and the TSA need to double check every possible orifice for weaponry.

[ThomWV]

25. What strikes me as funny is the clown probably has no idea how long a meter is

and will fight to the death to keep feet and inches rather than switch over the the metric system.