Ok, this one requires a little history.
A long time ago, back in 2001, there was an email campaign sometimes called “the Jedi Census Phenomena.”
The basic premise was that if enough people registered their religion as being “Jedi” (taken from the jedi Knights in the Star Wars Saga)in your country’s census that the governments would be obliged to recognize the Jedi religion as a real one.
in the Australian 2001 census, some 70,000 self identified as being Jedi. in New Zealand, it was avoer 1.5% of the population (beating out Buddhism and Hinduism). Canada reported a scant 20,000 Jedi, while England and Wales recorded almost 400,000 Jedi getting .07$ of the population (actually reaching 2.7% in Brighton). in fact a member of Parliament declared himself to be the first Jedi member back in 2005. the Scots, not to be out done, registered a small number of Jedi but also managed to get over 2000 people who declared themselves to be Siths (which just might explain the invention of bagpipes).
All this leads us to today’s Chump. It seems that Wales has really picked up on the phenomena as there was an attack on two self-styled Jedi in the town of Holyhead (which, let’s face it, sounds like something from the KamaSutra), by a certain Arwell Hughes. it seems that Hughes, was blind drunk (having drunk the better part of a 2/12 gallon box of, ummm, British wine)and screaming “Darth Vader, Jedis!” attacked the two poor gentlemen with a crutch.
True to the movie, two Jedi were not able to hold of a Drunken Darth Vader. The offender, who claims to have no recollection of the event, has gotten off with a suspended sentence and a small fine.
But he does merit some notoriety so he gets today’s Chumpzilla Award. May the farce be with us.
