Screen Shot 2013-01-22 at 10.38.13 PM - Plane passengers freak, prepare to die over guy's 'Inigo Montoya' t-shirt

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Plane passengers freak, prepare to die over guy’s ‘Inigo Montoya’ t-shirt

A New Zealand man named Wynand Mullins (!) currently living Australia was flying home to Auckland recently wearing what sounds like a totally sweet t-shirt—it was emblazoned with the quote, “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Mullins was apparently riding on a plane full of 6-fingered men or complete philistines, because apparently lots of people on the plane took his t-shirt seriously and immediately prepared to die. They thought their number was up.

Mullins tells the Australian version of Stuff Magazine (!) that a flight attendant approached him and asked if he could please change his t-shirt, because it was freaking out some of the passengers. “The flight attendant said to me: ‘Are you able to remove it because some of the passengers are quite intimidated by it,’” Mullins tells Stuff.

Mullins apparently did not have another shirt in his carry-on (hello, when you’re wearing a t-shirt that sweet why carry a backup?). The flight attendant left to go see if she could find another shirt for him to wear—and while he briefly hoped he’d score a captain’s uniform shirt she never came back. And according to Stuff she “didn’t make eye contact with Mr Mullins again.”

A Qantas rep said they had no record of the incident and that it was probably handled on-board. Which is probably all for the best—if airport security is cool with your t-shirt, your fellow passengers probably should be, too.

In the end no one had to prepare to die. Also, the man was not really Inigo Montoya.

  1. January 23, 2013 at 6:49 pm, Dave Rempel said:

    Inigo Montoya takes his death threat to a new level

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  2. January 23, 2013 at 6:58 pm, Mike Fairman said:

    Have people run out of ACTUAL things to be afraid of?

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    • January 23, 2013 at 7:45 pm, Michael Harris said:

      I think the terrorists are winning "down under" when Aussies and Kiwis begin to fear The Princess Bride t-shirts.

      Reply

  3. January 26, 2013 at 9:00 am, Rush Soccer Group Travel » Not Your Average Air Travel Stories: Week of Jan. 21 said:

    [...] to die: Man on Qantas flight told to change his T-shirt as its message was intimidating other passengers – it read, “Hello. My name is Inigo [...]

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