Your Jedi insticts serve you well…
A man dressed up as Darth Vader attacks a Jedi Church. There are so many reasons to love this news story. Among my favorite excerpts:
“Hughes claimed he couldn’t remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon (10-liter) box of wine beforehand.”
“Unfortunately for Hughes, his March attack was recorded on a video camera that the cousins had set up to film themselves in a light saber battle.”
“In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 - 0.7 percent of the population - listed Jedi as their religion.”
My favorite aspect of this story is that you and your friends are serious about the Jedi religion. You have light saber battles and everything. You consider yourself actual Jedis. And one day out of nowhere, your worst enemy walks in, and you’re helpless. You get the snot beat out of you. I guess their Jedi instincts missed the approaching onslaught.
May 13, 2008 at 8:41 am
We covered this already:
http://thedapperlad.com/2008/04/23/dateline-holyhead-wales-22-april-2008/
The video is deeply disappointing.
May 13, 2008 at 8:51 am
Will someone please track down the video of him stealing the crutch?
May 13, 2008 at 8:53 am
Ahh! Yes. It’s all coming back to me.
Here’s what I want to know: Was he dressed up as Darth Vader BEFORE drinking the wine? Was this a premeditated sort of thing? (”I’m going to dress up as Darth Vader and give those Jedi’s a right scare. First, liquid courage.”)
May 13, 2008 at 9:35 am
http://gizmodo.com/384164/actual-video-of-drunk-darth-vadar-attacking-jedi
May 13, 2008 at 9:40 am
WAIT! That was it???!!! LAME! I expected a full darth vader outfit. And he really didn’t attack them. He just sort of hit one of them with a stick and stood there.
I’m mad you showed me that clip. It was SOOO much better in my mind.
PS- I love at the end, the one guy says, “Ow. That was really quite painful.”