November 06, 2003

Star Wars Kid Sues

A Canadian teenager has launched legal action against classmates who put a video of him online, saying that the publicity has left him mentally scarred.
Ghyslain Raza became known as the "Star Wars Kid" after a video of him using a golf ball retriever to emulate the light sabre slinging tricks of Darth Maul was posted on the net.

The video was hugely popular and some people even added effects to make the golf ball retriever look and sound like a light sabre.

But the public exposure of the clip proved a burden for Mr Raza, who has been through psychiatric care to cope with his unwanted publicity.

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In case you haven't ever seen Star Wars Kid (SWK) footage, go here to see some. This kid is hysterical. Forget about suing his classmates, this kid should sue his parents for naming him Ghyslain.

Posted by peninah at November 6, 2003 11:19 AM
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Makes it even better that the kid is from France-Wannabe Quebec. Makes it even better that now we have proof he's a whiney, fat, wannabe-french kid.

I'm allowed to call him fat because I am fat.

Posted by: JosiahQ at November 6, 2003 02:47 PM

Poor, poor Ghyslain (which is almost as bad a name as Simeoth).

Seriously though, the Internet bought him an iPod...doesn't that make things better???

Posted by: Greg at November 6, 2003 02:53 PM

Josiah- reminds me of when I was at a comedy show in Toronto- don't get those guys talking about the French...HYSTERICAL (Greg can back me up here...)!!!!!! Do we know how to pronounce Ghyslain?

Posted by: peninah at November 6, 2003 03:01 PM

I'm struggling with the inconsistency of a Zelda (or is that Zeldah?) mocking someone else's name.

Posted by: MaestroP at November 11, 2003 08:53 AM

It is Zelda. Hey, we don't get to choose our own names, Maestro You know what.

Posted by: peninah at November 11, 2003 05:07 PM

I kind of feel bad for the kid, but who is really dumb enough to keep a video for so long that its found and posted on the internet, and the fact he was completly oblivious to this all at first sucks too. poor fat kid. Oh well.

Posted by: Holly at December 19, 2003 10:07 AM