{"id":772471,"date":"2019-12-27T19:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/boy-wearing-snake-t-shirt-forced-to-change-before-being-allowed-to-board-a-plane\/"},"modified":"2019-12-27T19:23:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:23:48","slug":"boy-wearing-snake-t-shirt-forced-to-change-before-being-allowed-to-board-a-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/27\/boy-wearing-snake-t-shirt-forced-to-change-before-being-allowed-to-board-a-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy wearing snake t-shirt forced to change before being allowed to board a plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A boy was forced to change his T-shirt with a picture of a snake on it before boarding a plane, his family claims.<\/p>\n

The 10-year-old Stevie Lucas had flown from Wellington, New Zealand, to\u00a0Johannesburg\u00a0in South Africa to visit his grandparents when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

At OR Tambo airport in Johannesburg, he was told that his black T-shirt,\u00a0which had a large green snake printed on it, was not permissible clothing to be worn onboard on a flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stevie\u2019s parents Steve and Marga told the\u00a0Daily Mail<\/em>\u00a0that security officers at Johannesburg airport alerted them to the rules about snake toys and clothing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s believed that the snake T-shirt could cause anxiety to other passengers.<\/p>\n

Ms Lucas reportedly told her son to turn the T-shirt inside out in order to be able to fly home.<\/p>\n

Airport security footage shows the 10-year-old taking off his T-shirt and turning it inside out, reports the paper.<\/p>\n

The Independent<\/em>\u00a0has contacted the Airports Company of South Africa for comment.<\/p>\n

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A Boy, 10, is forced to take his shirt off before boarding a flight from #NewZealand<\/a> to #SouthAfrica<\/a> because it had a picture of a reptile on it \u2708\ufe0f\ud83d\ude2c pic.twitter.com\/T0O6DqfBDo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 aviation-fails (@aviation07fails) December 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However in June,\u00a0a man accidentally carried a snake onboard a flight from Florida to Hawaii.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old passenger only discovered the reptile had stowed away in his bag when it slithered out of his rucksack once he\u2019d arrived at a holiday rental property in Pukalani, Maui.<\/p>\n

About 30cm long and 63mm in diameter, the black racer snake was non-venomous, according to the US Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n