Man dressed as Stormtrooper prompts lockdown in Salina

KWCH ^ | 07/01/2014 | John Boyd

[Responsibility2nd]

Now, there's something you don't see every day. A Star Wars Stormtrooper walking down the street.

It happened in Salina Monday, and it prompted a brief lockdown of at least one downtown business. Salina Police say officers responded to the report of an armed man in the 100 block of S. 7th Street.

The call came from nearby business, Action Travel, as a customer saw what appeared to be a man in a costume, carrying a weapon. Police advised the business to go into lockdown as police checked out the situation.

Police said the man and a friend was shooting a video for Vine, and the weapon was a plastic prop gun. The incident was captured on camera, and KSAL posted the image.

The man has been identified as 27-year-old Christopher Burns. He was not arrested, but police did advise him about walking around with a simulated fire arm.

 

[Responsibility2nd]

Courtesy: KSAL

 

[Billthedrill]

Looks like 0bama’s funding the wrong side in this civil war, too. BTT

[Responsibility2nd]

OK, who else thought they were going to see a different kind of Stormtrooper?

[molson209]

On Youtube ,the Dancing Stormtrooper, in Japan

[Hot Tabasco]

a customer saw what appeared to be a man in a costume, carrying a weapon

OK, I admit that I expected to see the trooper armed with a light sabre..........silly me.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Original Story:

There was a disturbance in “the force” in Downtown Salina Monday afternoon. A man dressed as a Star Wars Stormtrooper, complete with gun, prompted a brief lock down of a downtown business.

[When do we get liberated?]

If that guy is 27 he seriously needs a girlfriend...

[aomagrat]

He’s lucky the cops didn’t waste him.

[GeronL]

Are they going to ban Star Wars/Trek conventions now??

[GeronL]

She was dressed as a slave and was last seen in the back of Han Solo’s pickup heading toward Modesto.

[GeronL]

//kidding

[G-Bear]

Only Jedi’s use the old-fashioned light sabre. Maybe the store owner should have gotten his own blaster and accosted the stormtrooper?

[Jack Hydrazine]

Stormtrooper Secrets: Hip Hop Twerk - 4K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyqfHvoUtkU

[Jack Hydrazine]

Or his dog!

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

This guy is truly nuts. The only proof one needs is to understand how hot it is in this area of California. Anyone that is willing to wear something that hot right now needs a psych eval.

[Hot Tabasco]

Only Jedi’s use the old-fashioned light sabre

Yea, I recognized my mistake only after posting my comment........sorry

[Second Amendment First]

This is Salina Kansas, about 200 miles west of Kansas City, on I-70. Been past it many times, once has a vehicle towed there after a breakdown. Still pretty hot.

[Sans-Culotte]

OK, who else thought they were going to see a different kind of Stormtrooper?

I frankly thought they meant a Horst Wessel Brownshirt type.

[posterchild]

I’ve seen 40 or 50 of them walk in the Boston St Patricks Day parade. One man does it - it’s news. 40 people do it - it’s a parade.

[GeronL]

If 100,000 do it, it is an invasion!