On Kiku's Tumblr page, this photo of Stormtroopers and London cops uneasily eyeing up one another. Link (via Wonderland)

  • Gainclone

    TK-421, why aren’t you at your post?

  • PatGund
  • Tenn

    DrHaggis:

    Hear, Hear. and here.

    I would do trooper cos-play, but I’d have to get armor that doesn’t constrict / completely dwarf me. And have more free time. And shave my head and look masculine, because I’d like to be accurate and the Emperor was a misogynist.

  • Takuan

    June 1st Photography Freedom Day! Photograph a cop!

  • GregLondon

    These are not the donuts you are looking for.

  • GregLondon

    Do you know what’s going on?

    Maybe it’s another drill.

    Prisoner transfer for detention level seventeen.

    They may have split up. They may be on levels five and six.

  • john_reeve41

    Looking at the uniforms, I don’t think any of the people captured in this image are Police Officers. At least one of the officers has blue lapels, and given all the officers don’t have much kit attached to their belts, I’d say they are all Community Support Officers (Google it for more information).

  • arkizzle

    Great photo!

  • mcor9215

    vrgns, nd ppl wth n jbs

  • Santa’s Knee

    Brits: “Oh, look! Blackwater’s here!”

  • Umbriel

    Note to terrorists — Wear a hoodie and the London cops will gun you down without a second thought. Wear plastic armor and carry antique machine guns, and they’ll only look at you funny.

  • Cazart

    These are not the…Damn you, Greg London. Damn you to hell.

  • Yamazakikun

    The guns are clearly not a problem because, as we all know, stormtroopers can’t actually hit anything they shoot at.

  • Gary61

    Have you guys seen a big walking carpet come by here?

  • Enochrewt

    Carrying guns down the street is OK, just don’t let them catch you with a camera.

  • Drhaggis

    @4 Most of the troopers I know are married professionals. Some of them are even pretty girls.

  • Cpt. Tim

    oh man. theres cops… and cops like donuts, so you totally made a joke about it.

    LOL

    spot on… spot on…

  • Simon Bradshaw

    “OMG! Bert! Is that really you?”
    “Er…yes…”
    “I had no idea your other hobby was dressing up and trying to look mean!”
    “Yeah, I admit it. I’m a PCSO. But don’t tell the other guys down Stormtrooper Club, OK?”

    With apologies to Police Community Support Officers. And Stormtroopers. Especially any PCSOs who are also Stormstoopers. Or vice versa.

  • Ben

    I agree #9, thank God they’re only carrying guns.

    The cop’s thinking: “Isn’t he a little bit short for a stormtrooper?”

  • arkizzle

    #25 Simon Bradshaw

    Please write in with your address, so we can send you your prize: the internet.

  • MitchSchaft

    Thinkerer is not from the States, obviously.

  • therapydoc

    At the conventions they’re all the rage. You feel safe.

  • Biglig

    Heh, exercise for the American viewers of Boing Boing: can you spot which one of the cops isn’t actually a police officer?

  • handlewithcare

    @Whackamole, you’re thinking of the City of London police, who do look ever-so-slightly different from traditional Metropolitan Police, they’re a force-within-a-force, with responsibility for the Square Mile and its environs. Those above, as some have commented, appear to be Community Support Officers, or at least the two leftmost ones do, I don’t notice the blue epaulettes on the rightmost one.

  • BadKittyM

    Would that be the chappie with the checkerboard trim on his lid?

  • Thinkerer
  • arkizzle

    blue epaulettes!

  • arkizzle

    ..oh, I cheated. I’m not American.

  • whackamole

    They’re not London cops. London cops wear red and white checkers, the city colors, no? Other British officers wear back and white.

  • supaswag

    If I ever rob a bank I will dress up as a Stormtrooper with a machine gun. Walk in – gag everyone – take the money – walk home. No one will bother me. Easy.

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  • shawne

    No… We’re getting shipped out some armpit of a planet called Tatoine. Where are they sending you guys?

  • Torley

    It would be totally badass if the Arbiter walked in, then we’d have an intergalactic confrontation worth a few stares! >:D

  • Thinkerer

    In the U.S. they’d have been shot to ribbons for making “threatening gestures”, no matter what they carried.