# Chewbacca Arrested While Campaigning for Darth Vader **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784 "2015-10-26T11:05:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/1 "2015-10-26T11:05:01Z")
That’s what the headline reads. I can’t copy it for some reason, so you’ll have to go see it yourself: > **[Chewbacca Arrested While Campaigning For Darth Vader In Ukraine](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chewbacca-arrested-ukraine_n_562d9d3ae4b0ec0a3894e00f)** > > The Force wasn't with him. Apparently “Darth Vader” is the legal name of a candidate for mayor in Odessa in the Ukraine. A guy dressed in full wookiee regalia was arrested for campaigning on Election Day. He was fined what amounted to m$7.50, but said he couldn’t pay because “his funds are in an intergalactic bank that has no branches on this planet.” I swear this is what’s on the site. Unless I’m being hoaxed by the site, political theater is very interesting in the Ukraine. Og knows something needs to be. Go to the Dark Site – They Have Pictures. P.S. --They also put a robe and mask on a statue of Lenin, making him into Darth Vader. Dick Cheney’s gonna be [io]pissed\*. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/2 "2015-10-26T12:19:00Z")
the ability to arrest a wookie is insignificant compared to the power of the borscht I have been waiting for so long for such an opportunity ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/3 "2015-10-26T12:46:49Z")
“I find your lack of Voter ID disturbing…” ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/4 "2015-10-26T22:29:37Z")
So, if Darth Vader is running for Mayor of Odessa, is he going to march a bunch of Stormtroopers up the Potemkin Steps for his campaign? “Take that, George Lucas! You had to use _digital_ Potemkin Steps; _we_ have the real thing!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/5 "2015-10-27T00:10:12Z")
“Uh, we had a slight electoral malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. Uh, how are you?” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/6 "2015-10-27T00:30:26Z")
Wait a minute. _Chewie_ is campaigning for _ **Darth Vader**?!?_ _NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!_ ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/7 "2015-10-27T00:40:50Z")
Are wookies immune to jedi mind tricks? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/8 "2015-10-27T00:46:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Chewbacca Arrested While Campaigning for Darth Vader Really arrested, or are they just trying to con their way into the detention block? ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/9 "2015-10-27T14:12:02Z")
> [@robert\_columbia](#): > > “Uh, we had a slight electoral malfunction, but uh… everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. Uh, how are you?” “Aw man, I was just getting into that conversation.” ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/10 "2015-10-27T14:14:33Z")
“These are not the candidates you are looking for…” ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/11 "2015-10-27T15:55:30Z")
Article [from RT](https://www.rt.com/news/319792-star-wars-elections-ukraine/). [Here’s](https://twitter.com/EvgenyFeldman/status/526301094092500992/photo/1) the election broadsheet they cited. From top to bottom, the candidates are (transliterating from Cyrillic): VEIDER: Dart Vikorovich PALPATIN: Imperator Vikorovich CHUBAKKA: Stepan Mikhailovich AMIDALA: Padme Mikolaivna YODA: Magister \ So we have Dart Veider, Imperator Palpatin, Chubakka, Padme Amidala, and Magister (Latin for Master) Yoda. Hmm… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewbacca-arrested-while-campaigning-for-darth-vader/735784/12 "2015-10-27T16:14:39Z")
from your cite: > [@](#): > > Darth Alekseevich Vader – this is a real name, by the way – is a veteran of Ukrainian politics. Shouldn’t he be **Darth Palpatinevich Vader** , or something\*? Was Anakin’s father’s name Aleksei? \*Since that’s his “spiritual” father.