TSA agents stop Star Wars actor over 'lightsaber'
Published time: June 10, 2013 18:19
TSA agents in Denver held up Peter Mayhew, the Star Wars actor who played Chewbacca, for traveling with a large, ‘suspicious’-looking cane that resembles a light saber.
The 69-year-old actor stands 7’3” tall and relies on his walking cane to get around, which is designed to look like a light saber. But when ‘Chewbacca’ reached security at Denver International Airport on June 3, his famous role in Star Wars did little to smoothen the process.
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“Magic words to TSA are not ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ … It’s ‘Twitter’… cane released to go home,” Mayhew tweeted from his account, @TheWookieeRoars, indicating that the agents buckled to pressure from tweets about the incident.