{"id":10675,"date":"2020-05-07T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10675"},"modified":"2020-05-17T18:44:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:44:04","slug":"and-the-poor-woman-isnt-even-a-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/07\/and-the-poor-woman-isnt-even-a-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Poor Woman Isn&#8217;t Even A Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/stormtrooper-trying-get-customers-attention-taken-down-officers-canada-n1201696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from NBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stormtrooper trying to get customers&#8217; attention taken down by officers in Canada<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Callers reported seeing a weapon being carried by an employee who had been trying to drum up business for a restaurant hit hard by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Tim Stelloh <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2020_19\/3340021\/200506-stormtrooper-arrest-canada-crop-ac-934p_97ea41cbbb90d235d59a2dca5d0bddde.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Stromtrooper arrest\"\/><figcaption>A woman dressed as a stormtrooper speaks to Lethbridge police Monday when they believed the gun she had could be real. The actions of those officers are now being investigated internally after video of the incident was posted to social media. Brad Whalen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A restaurant employee in a \u201cStar Wars\u201d costume was detained in Canada on Sunday after 911 callers reported seeing someone in a Stormtrooper costume with a gun, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The employee, who was carrying a plastic blaster, had been trying to drum up business for the struggling restaurant, which opened two months before Canadian authorities shuttered eat-in dining because of the coronavirus, the woman\u2019s boss, Brad Whalen, told NBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen she was told to drop the blaster, she did,\u201d he said. Whalen said it was also difficult to move in the $1,200 costume, which he decided to use for the promotion when showing \u201cStar Wars\u201d films to customers wasn\u2019t an option for May 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what she was trying to yell,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t kneel. You can\u2019t sit when you wear it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019d begun promoting auctions and other events online to generate business. When he settled on using the Stormtrooper armor, the employee, who\u2019s been working with him since January, happily agreed to wear it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ironic thing is, she\u2019s not even a \u2018Star Wars\u2019 fan,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cNow I don\u2019t think we\u2019ll ever convince her to be one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/stormtrooper-trying-get-customers-attention-taken-down-officers-canada-n1201696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from NBC News Stormtrooper trying to get customers&#8217; attention taken down by officers in Canada Callers reported seeing a weapon being carried by an employee who had been trying to drum up business for a restaurant hit hard by the coronavirus. by Tim Stelloh A restaurant employee in a \u201cStar Wars\u201d costume was detained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}