Not often I’d quote the Mail, but…

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

‘Playing The Clash made me a terror suspect’

A mobile phone salesman was hauled off a plane and questioned for three hours as a terror suspect – because he listened to songs by The Clash and Led Zeppelin. Harraj Mann, 24, played the punk anthem London Calling and classic rock track Immigrant Song in a taxi before a flight to London.

The lyrics to both tracks made the driver fear his passenger was a terrorist.

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Mr Mann, of Hartlepool, Teesside, had boarded the plane at Durham Tees Valley Airport when the flight to Heathrow was stopped and he was arrested by police.

He said he was told he was being questioned under the Terrorism Act and his choice of music had aroused suspicions.

Mr Mann said yesterday: ‘The taxi had one of those tape deck things that plugs into your digital music player.

“I played Procol Harum’s Whiter Shade Of Pale first, which the taxi man liked. I figured he liked the classics so put on a bit of Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song – which he didn’t like. Then, since I was going to London, I played the song by The Clash and finished up with Nowhere Man by The Beatles.”

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Durham Police said the action was taken ‘as a result of information received’ and the flight was stopped before take-off.

Acting on information received – as shifting the burden of stupidity goes, that’s a good one; I’ll have to remember it along with the dog ate my homework.