Darth Vader is roaming the streets of Orlando, and it’s not even time for Star Wars Celebration VI yet. An intoxicated man (it’s shocking that alcohol was involved) wearing a Darth Vader mask attacked a Florida Highway Patrol trooper early on Thursday. He was walking in the middle of the road and when the trooper asked him to move he cursed and laid in the roadway instead. He refused to move so the trooper turned to alternative methods:
The trooper then told Cole to get up, but he attemtped to punch and kick the trooper, who deployed his Taser, according to the FHP. Officials said Cole’s thick jacket prevented the Taser from working, so the trooper used pepper spray to subdue him.
Why do they always choose a Darth Vader mask?
(Click Orlando via io9)
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Someone in a Gumby costume walked into a 7-Eleven in San Diego and approached the clerk, telling him “this is a robbery”. It was all downhill for the robber at this point. The clerk behind the counter thought the whole thing was a joke, telling Gumby that he had to go back to cleaning. Gumby then tried to produce a weapon (which he may or may not have been carrying), but the costume prevented it. He then dropped 26 cents on the floor, which he attempted to pick up.
After this, he gave up his efforts and left the store. The clerk was so convinced that the whole thing was a prank that he didn’t even report it, instead telling his manager when he came in at 6AM. There’s is a $1,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s arrest.
Check out a video of the attempt after the break.
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An Australian man who is described as “opportunistic” recently robbed a convenience store at knifepoint while wearing a bubble wrap mask. Apparently, he stole the wrapping off a truck parked nearby and decided that a spur of the moment robbery would be a great way to spend the afternoon.
The suspect is still at large, but I’m sure that the police would love to release some stress by punching him in the face to hear all of those satisfying pops.
(9News via Arbroath)
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A Charlotte man named Jonathan Huntley turned himself in to police after robbing a home with another suspect last month. Apparently, this criminal mastermind left a t-shirt with a nice, clear image of himself at the scene.
Making money by is his thang!
Seriously though, what was he doing in there? Taking a shower? Maybe robbery makes him feels sexy.
(Fox Charlotte via TDD via Neatorama)
There’s a joke in here about how apparently it’s not just people in the US who think they have to pretend to be Canadian to avoid a hassle when traveling, but this is a bit more meta.
An elderly caucasian male boarded an Air Canada flight to Vancouver originating in Hong Kong on October 29th and transformed into a 20-something asian man mid-flight in an act that the Canada Border Services Agency describe as an “unbelievable case of concealment.”
Check the video out after the jump.
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I think it’s pretty safe to say that most people celebrate Halloween on October 31st. So the argument that Gregory Liascos decided to wear a sniper’s ghillie suit as a Halloween costume two weeks ago outside the Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals because he was “having a bad day” doesn’t seem to add up.
Oh, and he had a backpack with him, and a bike…and he punched a hole in the wall of the museum through a bathroom. But all of this can be explained away right?
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If Back to the Future’s vision of the future was correct, then we’ll be hoverboarding our asses around town by 2015. THEN it will become a crime.
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Remember that lunatic that
stabbed a guy at Comic-Con in the eye with a pen? Well, if you happened to be at the event and managed to escape without being stabbed in the eye, I have a shirt for you.
Even if you didn’t attend, the shirt still applies. I mean, you were alive when Comic-Con was going on right? So, you survived through the period of time that Comic-Con was going on without getting stabbed in the eye by an attendee. Good for you.
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A recent crackdown on costumed performers on Hollywood Boulevard has nerds up in arms.
In a nutshell, a few bad actors and superhero hacks are giving longtime performers a bad name, and the police have tried to put a stop to it with arrests. Naturally, lawsuits were filed and protests have been held. But the bottom line is it’s hard to take Darth Vader’s impassioned pleas for justice seriously on a public street in broad daylight.
(via Gawker)
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Details are still a but fuzzy, but word is that two Comic-Con attendees got into an argument this past Saturday over whether one was sitting too close to the other in a crowded room. The argument resulted in the guy pictured here stabbing the other near the eye with a pen.
Rumor has it that the injuries were minor, but images and video of the suspect clearly show him wearing a blood-stained Harry Potter shirt similar to the ones currently sold at at Hot Topic.
Seriously, when a nerd wearing a Harry Potter shirt gets violent, you know something needs to be done about crowd control. Perhaps it’s time to move to a bigger venue.
(via Wired)
