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Hood-Wearing 'Jedi' Thrown Out of Supermarket

by Evan Shamoon on September 21, 2009 at 02:24 PM

A Jedi can do nearly anything he puts his mind to. Except, it seems, shop for groceries.

The man who started the International Church of Jediism, Daniel Jones, is claiming that he was "victimized over his beliefs" by staff at a Tesco supermarket in North Wales.

For those Jedi agnostics out there, the church apparently requires its 500,000 worldwide members to cover their heads (with a Jedi hood, of course) in public. Jones claims that he was forced to leave a Tesco supermarket when he refused to remove his hood, which the store managers insisted was a security threat.

"I told them it was a requirement of my religion but they just sniggered and ordered me to leave," Jones told the The Sun. "I walked past a Muslim lady in a veil. Surely the same rules should apply to everyone. I'll advise worshipers to boycott Tesco if it happens again. They will feel the Force." The 23-year-old Jones is also known by his Jedi name Morda Hehol. Oddly enough, he's from a town in Wales called Holyhead.

Tesco's response, though, takes the prize. "Jedi are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods," said a spokesman. "Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all went hoodless without going to the Dark Side. If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they'll miss lots of special offers."

Man, British corporate spokespeople are way funnier than their American counterparts. [From: Telegraph UK]

Tags: funny, jedi, jediism, movies, religion, star wars, StarWars, weird

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