Anakin Skywalker chased by cops, crashes podracer into tree

Anakin Skywalker – legally known as Jake Lloyd – has been arrested after a high-speed police chase concluded when his vehicle ploughed into a tree. Lloyd, 26, was arrested for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest and driving without a licence in Charleston, South Carolina. According to the sheriff's deputies, …

[Crazy Operations Guy]

According to the official Vocab guidelines, you're supposed to use "Police Service", force sounds too aggressive.

Mine's the one with a bit of red on it.

[JustNiz]

I will only call them a service when they actually start to serve my interests.

[Anonymous Coward]

> you're supposed to use "Police Service", force sounds too aggressive

The 70s (or at least the Monty Python version) were a more manly time - the Papperbok had a recruitment form for the British Police with the section:

Tick force of interest:

[ ] London Metropolitan

[ ] Counties

[ ] Brute

[Anonymous Coward]

Name for Police Force

You aren't American - we've taken PR to a new level. "Community Safety" - sort of like the "Committee for Public Safety"

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news....

Jar jar binks was shot and killed in a 7-11 robbery.

I can only wish.

[Anonymous Coward]

"In other news....

Jar jar binks was shot and killed in a 7-11 robbery."

No one saw nothin'.....

[hplasm]

"...Jar jar binks was shot and killed in a 7-11 robbery."

Nothing to see here, move along. Move along."

/waves hand.

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Re: "...Jar jar binks was shot and killed in a 7-11 robbery."

Isa seein' nuthin.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: "...Jar jar binks was shot and killed in a 7-11 robbery."

"No! No blaster in the aisles!"

PHEW PHEW

[Destroy All Monsters]

16 years ago?

Wait, what?

[Peter Mount]

Re: 16 years ago?

To quote XKCD:

"The Phantom Menace would have come out closer to Return of the Jedi than the present"

So yes it's been that long!

https://xkcd.com/1477/

[Dan 55]

Re: 16 years ago?

I wish all these things making me realise I'm fucking old and there's no way I can pretend otherwise stopped happening.

[DropBear]

Re: 16 years ago?

Soooo, um, at what age do we get to start to pretend that something was actually an artefact of our _parent's_ times instead of our as a coping mechanism against having to admit we're becoming older than dirt...? I mean, preferably _before_ Alzheimer makes us actually believe it too...?

[Bunker_Monkey]

Funnily enough Jar-Jar was at the wheel. Shot by the Police, then they asked for his licence and registration.....

[wolfetone]

'ow rood

[dogged]

A popular instalment of George Lucas' intergalactic entertainment series, the prequel was released in 3D back in 2011, and introduced new characters which have remained long-lasting fan favourites, chief among them being Jar Jar Binks.

lolz

[TitterYeNot]

Lolz indeed. The force of my indignant outrage had lifted me six feet off the ground before my sarcasm detector slowly kicked in. Monday it is, brain is slow...

[404]

Exactly

Note that no one from El Reg put their name on the story either... I've yet to meet anyone, ever, that thought JarJar was worth a damn.

Pretty sure whomever wrote the article is not and never was a SW fan.

[Dan 55]

Re: Exactly

"I've yet to meet anyone, ever, that thought JarJar was worth a damn."

Luckily The Phantom Edit and Attack of the Phantom are made for those few people...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Edit

And Chapters IV-VI Despecialized Editions gets rid of the bouncing monsters in the background that Lucas found necessary to stick in the digital editions of the original trilogy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHfLX_TMduY

Icon is for the people who make these editions, not for Lucas obviously.

[Sandtitz]

Re: Exactly

"I've yet to meet anyone, ever, that thought JarJar was worth a damn."

I'm really tempted to watch that first prequel with my 5-year-old kid and indoctrinate her to endear Jar Jar just to infuriate her godmother who is big fan of the SW (and Harrison Ford or course).

Anytime people praise SW a bit too much I tend to show them the SW Holiday Special. One of the most painful experiences ever.

[Sorry that handle is already taken.]

Shame...

...that he only retired after the movie wrapped.

[lee harvey osmond]

Where's Master Obi Wan when you need him?

"This isn't the reckless driver you're looking for.... tell him he can go about his business ... move along!"

[Mage]

What?

That entire article is a trolling attempt!

[Irongut]

"other children were really mean... They would make the sound of the light saber every time they saw me."

How is that being mean? Reminding you that you were in Star Wars is not being mean. As a kid I would have loved that.

Laughing that you will grow up to become Hayden Christensen, now that is mean.

[TeeCee]

When caught, did he say......

Now this is podracing.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: When caught, did he say......

Alternatively, "I'm not the perp you're looking for. You may move on."

[404]

Re: When caught, did he say......

'Yippee'....

I *still* want to punch him over that....

[petur]

Luke where you are going

FTFY

[Anonymous Coward]

When arrested, he apologised profusely

...then said sorry for the driving charges.

[hplasm]

Whilst driving-

was the defendant heard to say "Wheee!" ?

[Anonymous Coward]

My guess is Anakin said

"- I am not the one you're looking for" when he got arrested.

[chivo243]

like son like father?

Didn't Mark Hamill get into a real prang? Isn't that why the snow beast scenes were added, so they could have plausible deniability that he looked so different?

[Ben Tasker]

Re: like son like father?

According to wookiepedia (seriously), yes - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mark_Hamill - just before filming closed for the first film.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Lloyd, 26, was arrested for reckless driving, failure to stop, resisting arrest and driving without a licence in Charleston, South Carolina"

Is that Jedi privilege at play?

I can imagine some non-Jedis getting a rather rougher deal from the cops than that.

[bollos]

those prequels...

were utter shite.

[Graham Marsden]

Re: those prequels...

Sorry, *what* prequels?

There were only three Star Wars films and one Matrix and one Highlander film...

[Deltics]

Re: those prequels...

And 2 (pre-Nolan) Batman movies.

And 2 (Chris Reeve) Superman movies.

And 1 Jurassic Park movie.

And 2 Spiderman movies.

And, in an ideal world... 0 (ZERO, NADA) Twilight, Hunger Games or Maze Runner movies.

[Anonymous Coward]

Yup

...life as an over-paid celebrity sucks but they keep cashing the checks for some reason.

[Anonymous Coward]

Jar Jar Binks

I like Jar Jar. But I won't admit it to this crowd!

(also booed in the theater when the original Death Star was destroyed-- such an engineering (fictional) feat to be blown up. Much better to simply drone strike the evil head of the empire, but that would not play as well).

[Cynic_999]

Caught he was.

[veti]

"Let go, Luke"

... was frankly never great advice for a pilot.

[Anonymous Coward]

Disappoint

Was I the only one hoping to see some contraption formed from motorbike/large quadcopter being piloted by a drunk and or drugged up youth seen from the viewpoint of a police dash cam.

SO wanted that.