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Bad Wookie Gets Arrested

calgodot

19:50 / 04.02.07

It's worth clicking on this link just to see a picture of an LAPD officer escorting a handcuffed Wookie.

"LAPD officers arrested "Star Wars" street performer Frederick Evan Young, 44, of Los Angeles in his furry brown wookiee costume Thursday on a charge of misdemeanor battery for allegedly head-butting a tour guide who complained about Young's treatment of two visitors from Japan. The incident — witnessed by Superman and other impersonators — is the latest clash outside the landmark cinema between visitors and performers dressed as movie and cartoon characters."

Only in Hollywood...

Spaniel

19:52 / 04.02.07

Lol

Still, this should be in Convo

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:19 / 04.02.07

"The street performer doesn't have any affiliation with Lucasfilm," said company spokeswoman Lynne Hale. "Nevertheless, we are disappointed that someone dressed as Chewbacca would behave in this way."

Clearly, she's never seen the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Dutch

19:15 / 05.02.07

I love this article.

I can just imagine this man getting so caught up in the assumed behaviour of a fictional character that he literally starts to think of himself as a wookie. This is probably not true, but the phrase "'Nobody tells this wookiee what to do!'" is interesting.

Maybe he'll meet a similarly enclined female wookie later on to make all kinds of little wookies with. After getting out of jail and taking anger management classes from Obi-Wan of course.

Slate

21:09 / 05.02.07

I read about the poor wookies arrest in his Blog, the story is down near the Oscar the Grouch photo.

penitentvandal

09:34 / 06.02.07

Things like this happen around Chewbacca all the time. I saw him in a fight with a music vendor. They knocked over a baby stroller," a man dressed as Jack Sparrow said.

hehheheheh.

Triplets

09:35 / 06.02.07

He's never been quite right since he broke up with Harrison, really.

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