A man in Britain has been given a suspended sentence after attacking Jedi Church founder Barney Jones and his cousin, Michael Jones, with a metal crutch while shouting "Darth Vader! Jedis!"Arwel Wynn Hughes, 27, says he has no memory of the attack because he was drunk at the time (having consumed "the better part of a 2.5-gallon or so box of wine beforehand"), but a video shows him approaching a Jedi practice session and attacking Barney Jones (aka Master Jonba Hehol), who's holding the video camera.
Jones complained of a headache from the attack. But can it really be worse than the headache sustained from guzzling enough boxed wine to stage an intergalactic fight?
While Hughes is not heading to jail, he will have to pay $195 to each of his victims, not quite enough to buy back their dignity after the Internet gets through snickering at the video of nerds playing Jedi.
The Church of Jediism claims to have 30 members and says its philosophy is based on "insight and knowledge" from the films. Interestingly, the 2001 United Kingdom census found 390,000 people -- 0.7 percent of the population -- who acknowledged Jedi as their religion.
Video of the attack after the jump
