Posted on 08/15/2015 9:18:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
More than 60 storm-troopers crossed the Golden Gate Bridge Saturday to raise funds for a nonprofit for children with cancer.
At 7 a.m., a large group clad in storm-trooper uniforms gathered near Golden Gate Bridge to support Kevin Doyle. Doyle's mission is to raise awareness and also funds to start a nonprofit for kids with cancer.
"It's breathtaking," Doyle said. "I can't put into words right now the support. The sincere gratitude that people have been showing for what I've been doing is great."
He's doing this to honor his late wife who passed away from cancer. The couple were huge Star Wars fans, so much so that R2D2 was the ring-bearer at their wedding.
"I know she'd be proud of me for making this journey and completing my passions from grief to celebration," Doyle said.
Earlier this year, Doyle walked 645 miles from the Bay Area to San Diego International Comic-Con in Southern California in full storm-trooper attire.
He has now made his way back to the Bay Area, but he said it was his first time walking the Golden Gate Bridge.
Doyle is originally from Minnesota but he said he came to California to do the walk. Raji Ramanathan contributed to this story.
In before the, “wretched hive of scum and villainy,” comments.
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Irony: they’re almost on top of the future site of Starfleet HQ. I guess the Empire won this round. :-)
(The 501st (Vader's Own) is a great charity organization filled with very dedicated reenactors who selflessly donate their time and efforts for causes, and I've had the great privilege of meeting quite a few of them. Yes, some are Hillary supporters, but many, for some odd reason, find that their viewpoints change as they reenact serving an evil emperor.)
I thought from the headline that this was s group of Neo-NAZI types. Given the link between the upper levels of the SS and homosexuality this was not surprising to me.
"Dude, you look like a friggin' anteater."
“Aren’t you a little fat for a Stormtrooper?”
More like sweating IN buckets, since that's what they call their head gear, and yes, they are extremely hot. Most times, they will rotate who is on 'stage' in a public setting so that they can cool off with their buckets off before swapping out again. During Star Wars Half Marathon, most of them stayed out in the warm sun for hours as people ran by (and took pictures with them) - one noted that he sweated out 6 pounds of water during that event.
It was almost 100 degrees in the Bay Area today. Those guys must have been roasting in those costumes!
Like tortoises, many locals stay indoors, sort of hide out during the middle of the day, when the sun is at it’s most ‘angry’. We come back out after 5pm or 6pm, when the San Francisco breeze system takes over once again.
It’s still hot out.
That’s how you bring attention to a cause. You don’t handcuff a bunch of stormtroopers to barrels filled with concrete.
We went for a run in full MOPP-4 on a day like that. I've never sweat so much in my life. I looked like Ted Striker from 'Airplane'.
Miss the evening cooling there when the fog and the breeze come in.
I always associated it with the May Day parade in Red Square every year.
Beverage through nose, keyboard, etc.
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