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    News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    A self-proclaimed Jedi shopping in a Tesco store has revealed he was told to remove his hood or leave.
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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    I love that official response from Tesco's.

    Its logical, witty and definitely in the right spirit of things.

    Plus they are right only the Emperor was hooded all the time.

    Reading the story I had the feeling they were just going to give a response effectively calling the guy a nerd. This was a pleasant surprise to say the least.

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    lol im going to go in to the shop with my motor bike helemt on and say im a storm truper

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Do Tesco have this policy with Muslim women wearing veils or burkas?

    Some how I doubt it.

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by barwell1992 View Post
    lol im going to go in to the shop with my motor bike helemt on and say im a storm truper
    Are they a variation of a storm trooper

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Do Tesco have this policy with Muslim women wearing veils or burkas?

    Some how I doubt it.
    Well, it wouldn't surprise me if they did also apply the rule to Muslims

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Do Tesco have this policy with Muslim women wearing veils or burkas?

    Some how I doubt it.
    I think it is just because 99.99% of the time it will be chav's who will steal from the store or generally abuse staff and customers who go around with hoodies on.

    Having this rule allows them to ban these people pre-emptively from the store.

    Unfortunately for this guy he was the 0.01%

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    read the small print at the very bottom....

    Are there any Jedi's here on the forums? Because apparently there are 500,000 members of this "church"!

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    read the small print at the very bottom....

    Are there any Jedi's here on the forums? Because apparently there are 500,000 members of this "church"!
    i'm a jedi..
    with the powers embedded into my mind, i can just look at a girl and she instantly wants to sleep with me

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by matty-hodgson View Post
    i'm a jedi..
    with the powers embedded into my mind, i can just look at a girl and she instantly wants to sleep with me
    *waves hand in front of matty's face*

    These are not the gullible people you are looking for

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    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    Do Tesco have this policy with Muslim women wearing veils or burkas?

    Some how I doubt it.
    in the original article i read last week he actually complained that 3 feet from him at the time a Muslim woman in a burka entered the store more covered than him. Her religious right was maintained but he was bullied out of the store.

    As an ex-Tesco employee i find this completely distasteful and rude. This his religion is a joke or not, he has the same rights as anybody else and to be bullied essentially because he's a man (males with hoods are automatically assumed to be hoodied chavs, women with headscarves can be Muslim or not, headscarves are not frowned upon) is just ridiculous.

    The worst thing about this, is that because most people view his religion as a joke, this wont get the same level of backlash or outcry that it would if a Muslim or a Christian etc was kicked out of Tesco for their religious beliefs.

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by Arthran View Post
    The worst thing about this, is that because most people view his religion as a joke, this wont get the same level of backlash or outcry that it would if a Muslim or a Christian etc was kicked out of Tesco for their religious beliefs.
    Does the guy think his religion is a joke?

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    Quote Originally Posted by usxhe190 View Post
    Does the guy think his religion is a joke?
    Ofc not, what with being head of a church with half a million members :-P

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    I do have to say - you can't really take it THAT seriously when you consider that really the whole Jedi thing was nothing more than a George Lucas brain fart!

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    read the small print at the very bottom....

    Are there any Jedi's here on the forums? Because apparently there are 500,000 members of this "church"!
    Actually not quite, there's 500,000 people who took the last census less than seriously and got on board with a popular campaign at the time to force Jedi to appear on the 2011 census as an option.

    Unfortunately my write in option of "All religions are a lie" didn't make the grade

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    This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!

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    Re: News - Tesco staff in altercation with Jedi Knight

    Spelling error in the article "Jedis"

    The plural of Jedi is Jedi.

    have some respect please Scott.

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