The Jedi Church in Wales was attacked by Darth Vader.
No, really.
A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a garbage bag for a cape, and assaulted the founders of a group calling itself the Jedi church was given a suspended sentence Tuesday.
And further:
Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones — aka Master Jonba Hehol — with a metal crutch, hitting him on the head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates’ Court.
He also whacked Jones’ 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones — known as Master Mormi Hehol — bruising his thigh in the March 25 incident, prosecutors said.
I like the Star Wars movies a little more than the next guy. After all, I have them all on DVD, I’m pretty decent with the lore, and I’ve spent hours playing the d20-based RPG campaign. However, I don’t mistake the Jedi way for a real religion, nor do I dress up as Darth Vader and beat people with a crutch.
***EDIT*** For those of you who emailed and didn’t understand the reference in the title and the references made by Dez and GK in the comments section, watch the following comedy sketch by Eddie Izzard. (Probably NSFW.)
“do you know who I am?”
“…we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure of what is normal anyway.”
Oh sure, they’ll allow the Jedi official sanction as a religion, but not the Sith… and with their famed powers of precognition and force-fueled visions, don’t you think the Jedi should have seen this coming? Perhaps they did not know the POWER (clench fist menacingly) of the dark side!
Master Moron Hee-Haw was struck by a crutch… so this is an elderly or crippled version of Vader? Perhaps it wasn’t Darth at all, but his well known relative Chad Vader.
I guess that I shouldn’t laugh too much at the Brits… our country produced Mormons and Scientology. Having a choice, I’d rather be struck with a crutch by a drunken Vader impersonator than suffer my daughter to be raped and brain-washed in a polygamous cult (FLDS) or be wed to Tom Cruise (the living example of Dianetics) and be refused access to coping drugs.
Jedi Church… oh my aching head… wait, that’s the crutch wound talking…
*eyes pop* @ Dez.
Chad Vader makes me happy.