Obiwan Kenobi Arrested And Charged For A Hit-And-Run?!
Saw this article on Yahoo and thought it was too good not to share. It would appear that some idiot, who legally changed his name to Obiwan Kenobi, was arrested and charged with a felony hit-and-run in Roseville, California. The charge came following an investigation by the Roseville PD that determined that Mr. Kenobi was the douche bag responsible for a five-car accident that happened on March 19. The article sadly doesn’t say how it was that the police found their Obiwon, so I can only hope that it went something like this…
A long time ago ( like two months ago), in a place not too far, far away….the intergalactic police department of Roseville, CA found midichlorians at the crime scene of a five hoovercraft pileup. Not having the proper equipment in their CSI crime lab, PD had no choice but to turn turn to George Lucas to help determine whom the midichlorians belonged to. Faster than he fucked up the prequels, George was able to determine that the midichlorians belonged to Obiwan Kenobi. But of course we all know that the real Obi-Wan died years ago aboard the Death Star and thus he was not the Obi-Wan Kenobi they were looking for. So, PD did the next obvious thing and looked in the phone book and wouldn’t you know it, they found their culprit.
The 37-year old Obiwan was arrested on April 21 and was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for a misdemeanor petty theft. He was released from custody without bail on April 26, but was placed “on electronic monitoring” from the Placer County Jail, according to TSG. He is due to appear in court on April 30.
Kenobi as it turns out, was born Benjamin Cale Feit, and changed his name as part of a radio station contest in 1999 that offered $1000 to the first listener to legally change their name to Obiwan Kenobi. Now being the geek that I am, I was curious just how much it actually costs to legally change your name and come to find out it’s not cheap. After what appears to be a some-what lengthy process it would cost at the very least $500 to change your name. So Benji Feit spent at least $500 to become Obiwan Kenobi and earned himself $1000, which makes him an official idiot. I’m sorry but if I’m going to go through the hassle of changing my name, A: I’d better be getting more than $1000 for it and B: you can be damn sure that I would be sure to use the correct spelling of Obi-Wan!
