Maybe he should’ve told the cops, “This isn’t the Wookiee you’re looking for.”
A man dressed as “Star Wars” character Chewbacca was arrested in Ukraine and fined after illegally campaigning for Darth Vader, the Irish Examiner reports.
The man had shown up at a polling station in Odessa to stump for Darth Vader as a mayoral candidate. Unfortunately, Ukraine law prohibits campaigning during election day.
The unnamed faux Wookiee didn’t go down without a fight — video of the arrest shows a group of policemen struggling to detain and eventually handcuff him. According to the Examiner, he was brought to court — in costume — and fined the equivalent of nearly $7 for the offense.
He probably should have waited until Halloween to bust out the Chewbacca costume.
Watch Chewbacca get busted by The Man in the video.