Slog - Comments on Darth Vader Attacks Jedi Knight http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight Someone in England who identifies as a Jedi Knight was giving a television interview when a man dressed as Darth Vader assaulted him. Jedi Master Jonba Hehol - known to family and friends as Barney Jones, 36, of Holyhead - was giving a TV interview in his back garden for a documentary when a man, dressed in a black bin-bag and wearing Darth Vader's trademark shiny black helmet, leapt over his garden fence. Wielding a metal crutch - his lightsaber presumably being in for repairs - the Sith Lord proceeded to lay about his opponent, whose Jedi powers proved inadequate... Copyright 2008 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:48:16 -0800 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:58:52 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Dougsf Isn't Jedi, or whatever they call it, actually somehow a recognized religion over there?

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986262 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986262 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:53:24 -0800 Comment by Jason Josephes I bet it was staged.

]]> Jason Josephes http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986266 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986266 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:56:30 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton Maybe smoking is the real reason Vader needs that suit to stay alive.

On another subject, why isn't "??!!" listed on the categories page?

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986268 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:57:01 -0800 Comment by sw April Fools?

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/slate/~3/261241654/

]]> sw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986269 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986269 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:57:44 -0800 Comment by Julie Forget the photo... that caption is awesome: "How the assailant may have looked."

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986280 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:07:22 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Religious wars are always bad.

Heck, just look at the 600 new "settlements" being built in Israel in Palestinian territory that were announced today.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986295 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986295 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:16:08 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV The assailant doubtlessly found his lack of faith. . . disturbing.....

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986366 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986366 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:05:03 -0800 Comment by Marty Is... is this normal in the UK? Never lived there, wouldn't know. Now if it was Japan-totally normal.

]]> Marty http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986415 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986415 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:49:27 -0800 Comment by sammyonrye best story ever....I may have to go buy a leia costume after all and see what kind of trouble I can get into.

]]> sammyonrye http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986494 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986494 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:05:44 -0800 Comment by Ivan Cockrum How the assailant may have looked

The best part of the photo is the caption below it.

]]> Ivan Cockrum http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986567 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986567 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:13:14 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Will in Seattle didn't just pinch a great big Middle East Conflict loaf into the punchbowl of a funny little Star Wars Virgins story did he? No... he couldn't have been that big of a Grinch McAsshole, could he? I must have misread it.

Will is assymptotically approaching Ecce Homo. If in fact they weren't always the same person from day one.

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986763 ??!! Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:02:24 -0800 Comment by bd I hate to be the prig on this one, because on any other day that story would be the kind of thing I would chuckle over for hours. And, no, I'm not going to lecture anyone about violence. It's just that, well, the sidebar, see? Did anyone else notice it? Flying penguins found by BBC programme"?

Dude! Flying penguins! I'm sorry, but a Jedi showdown in Holyhead just can't compete. I mean, yeah, the whole smoking Darth thing is hilarious, but ... well, flying penguins.

That's so freakin' awesome. Here, I'll say it one more time, in case it hasn't quite hit you squarely: Flying penguins.

How is that not the coolest thing you've heard all week?

]]> bd http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986774 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c986774 ??!! Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:27:42 -0800 Comment by sewanee hey bd... april fools?! i mean seriously, a penguin is actually defined as a flightless waterfowl with flippers rather than wings and webbed feet. i'm sorry you fell victim to the British press and their wacky sense of humor.

]]> sewanee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c987854 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/03/darth_vader_attacks_jedi_knight#c987854 ??!! Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:58:52 -0800