"Road Warrior" Battle "Re-Enactors" Arrested

Why wasn't I invited? I could easily have played the Feral Kid. Or maybe the mohawk dude in the assless chaps.

Eleven "Mad Max" fans armed with fake machine guns were arrested after they surrounded a tanker truck while making their way to a movie marathon in a theatrical convoy.

As the group headed to San Antonio on Saturday, police received several calls from drivers who reported a "militia" surrounding a tanker truck.

Police charged nine people with obstruction of a highway and two others with possession of prohibited knives in addition to the obstruction charge.

One of the organizers, Chris Fenner, said the arrests were unfair. He said he didn't know why anyone would have confused the [reenactment] with a real threat.

"I honestly don't know how that could be, because 'Road Warrior' was so over the top," he said.

The machine-guns and leather armor probably had something to do with it, Chris.

And, you know, the assless chaps.

And PS, idiots? There was not a single machinegun in The Road Warrior. There was one large-caliber revolver, one sawed-off shotgun, and a lot of bows and crossbows.

Aren't dorks supposed to get these things right? Star Trek dorks don't make this kind of error. They can tell you the exact episode in which the Mark II phaser-rifles were introduced, and if you try bringing one of them to a re-enactment of Specter of the Gun, they will accuse you of being "non-canonical," which is always extremely painful.

Via Garfield Ridge as well as Don.

posted by Ace at 04:17 PM

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