Darth Vader issued warrant for his arrest

A man named Arwel Wynne Hughes confessed that he hit Barney and Michael Jones with a crutch while dressed up in a black bag and yelling “Darth Vader!” He was drunk at the time that the assault occurred. Hughes didn’t show up to a court date, so District Judge Andrew Shaw issued a warrant for his arrest and said, “I hope the Force will soon be with him.” Barney Jones recently opened a Jedi church in the city of Holyhead in the UK. The prosecutor for the Jones’ said that Hughes hit one of them over the head and the other in the thigh with a crutch. Hughes said he couldn’t remember anything about the incident.

Prince lands helicopter in girlfriend’s yard

Prince William landed a Royal Air Force (RAF) helicopter in the backyard of his girlfriend, Kate Middleton’s home as a training routine. William has asked for her parent’s permission before doing the stunt. This was part of his training, and there were no other available landing spots in the area. The RAF was quoted saying, “Battlefield helicopter crews routinely practice landing in fields and confined spaces away from their airfields as a vital part of their training for operations.” The helicopter was only on the ground for 20 seconds, and no one got on or off of it. An aviation analyst, Jon Lake, called the landing “ridiculous and inappropriate,” but the RAF said it was fully authorized.

PETA willing to pay $1 million for lab-grown meat

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is offering $1 million to any scientist that can grow meat in a lab that tastes and looks no different than the real thing. They also have to be able to market the idea before the summer of 2012, and they must sell the meat in 10 U.S. states at a competitive price. PETA’s reason for supporting this contest is that “more than 40 billion chicken, fish, pigs and cows were killed every year for food in the United States in ‘horrific ways.’” Research is already in progress for producing vitro meat but is still several years away from being sold to the public.