Wookie succumbs to dark side. In Hollywood.

It wouldn’t be a day in Hollywood without at least one wonderfully odd thing happening.

“Ersatz Chewbacca succumbs to dark side”

A street performer dressed as Chewbacca from “Star Wars” apparently succumbed to the dark side when he allegedly head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles police said today.

First of all, does a “tour guide operator” operate tour guides? Second, I guess the tour guide operator never heard that you always let the wookie win.

Oh, it gets better.

The Star Line Tours guide, Brian Sapir, said in an interview today that the Chewbacca character was harassing two young Japanese tourists when he told him to stop. “You could see him exploding in his mask,” Sapir said. “He said, ‘Nobody tells this wookie what to do.”

Young then threw his mask off and head-butted him, Sapir added.

Which brings up one of my favorite parts of this story, which is the headline referring to this wookie as an “ersatz Chewbacca”, just in case anybody out there thought it was the real one. ;)

A police source said that a performer dressed as Superman witnessed the assault and was interviewed by police. He was not identified.

“Clark Kent, you’ll never guess who’s right over… hey, wait a minute!”

“The lesson here is you can have the force with you,” [LAPD Spokesdroid Lt. Paul] Vernon said. “You just can’t use illegal force.”

Ooof.