Maybe someone should dress up as Jesus and whack the founders of the
Exclusive brethren.
"Sir John Howard" <sirjohnhoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Jedi attack: Darth Vader lookalike spared
>
>
http://www.smh.com.au/news/unusual-tales/darths-blast-after-10-litres-of-plonk/2008/05/14/1210444475675.html
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> A man who dressed up as Darth Vader, wearing a black garbage bag for a
> cape, and assaulted the founders of Britain's first Jedi church has
> been given a suspended sentence.
>
> Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, attacked Jedi church founder Barney Jones -
> a.k.a. Master Jonba Hehol - with a metal crutch, hitting him on the
> head, prosecutors told Holyhead Magistrates' Court in England. He also
> whacked Jones's 18-year-old cousin, Michael Jones - or Master Mormi
> Hehol - bruising his thigh, in the March 25 incident.
>
> Unfortunately for Hughes, the incident 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
> best part of a 10 litre box of wine beforehand.
>
> "He knows his behaviour was wrong and didn't want it to happen but he
> has no recollection of it," said Hughes's 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 100
> pounds ($206) to each of his victims and 60 pounds in court costs.
>
> Barney Jones, his brother Daniel and cousin Michael set up the Church
> of Jediism, Anglesey order, last year. It claims about 30 members.
>
> Jedi is the faith followed by some of the central characters in the
> Star Wars films. In the 2001 United Kingdom census, 390,000 - 0.7 per
> cent of the population - listed Jedi as their religion.
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