Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks
Offline I had to laugh when i saw this. I also thought the rest of you would get a kick out of this...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24604338/?GT1=43001
HOLYHEAD, Wales - 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.
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.
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The two cousins and Barney Jones' brother, Daniel, set up the Church of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the "Star Wars" films.
The group, which claims about 30 members, says on its Web site that it uses "insight and knowledge" from the films as "a guide to living a better and more worthwhile life."
"We all love the films and what they stand for. Obviously some people are going to laugh about it," the Wales on Sunday newspaper quoted Barney Jones as saying last month. "But a lot of people do take it seriously."
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.
"Darth Vader! Jedis!" Hughes shouted as he approached.
Hughes claimed he couldn't remember the incident, having drunk the better part of a 2 1/2-gallon box of wine beforehand.
"He knows his behavior was wrong and didn't want it to happen but he has no recollection of it," said Hughes' lawyer, Frances Jones.
District Judge Andrew Shaw sentenced Hughes to two months in jail but suspended the sentence for one year. He also ordered Hughes to pay $195 to each of his victims and $117 in court costs.
In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 — 0.7 percent of the population — listed Jedi as their religion.
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*dies*
... that does it...
Im off to find the church of Sith
A good title for this thread would have been "When Nerds Attack!"
I'm not sure what's funnier...this:
...or this:
Nobody I know was brainwashed into being an atheist.
Why Believe?
I wonder if he brought his apprentice with him.
I put myself down as Jedi in the last census. I heard that you can't get in trouble for it. I'll definately put atheist next time, to increase the stats.
By the way, has anyone else noticed the resemblance between pope benedict (or p.benny) and emperor palpatine?
Zen-atheist wielding Occam's katana.
Jesus said, "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." - Luke 12:51
How could you not notice?
Give him blue skin, and I wouldn't be able to distinguish the Pope from Palpatine at all.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
Who would give you trouble? Do you mean that they'd accept the answer?
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Something like that. . .
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I think it may be illegal to screw around with the census too much (I think I read something about that). But in Australia, at least, the religion question is optional, which makes you wonder why they bother, you can't get acurate stats if there is a section of society not playing. Unless they include the did-not-answer in the stats i spose.
Maybe next time I should put down "I am God, worship me or burn in hell mo' fu'er"
Zen-atheist wielding Occam's katana.
Jesus said, "Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." - Luke 12:51
In 2001 the UK census rules regarding form completion were toughened up. Not answering a question or giving false info could lead to a fine. But the rule did not apply to question 10 on the form which asked about religion.
Incidentally under "religion: other" the citizen was invited to write the name of the religion in block capitals, one letter in each of the thoughtfully provided squares printed on the form. The squares were arranged in two rows of 10 each, 20 letters in all.
Blatant discrimination against all the flying spaghetti monster worshippers out there!
I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Pastafarian would fit.