A Star Wars fan who was turned down for a Seattle permit to camp out until May when the next movie opens has been evicted fromt he streetcorner where he's been waiting, permit-free, on a sofa he dragged out there. He's responded by ditching the sofa and standing in line instead, for sixteen hours a day.
Tweiten and his tiny blue couch were made to move by Seattle Police just hours after a police spokesman told me Tweiten had not been booted because there had been no complaints. Not one since the 27-year-old began a 139-day squat in anticipation of the May 19 opening of "Episode III: Revenge of the Sith."
Suddenly, according to SPD spokesman Sean Whitcomb, an anonymous caller did complain. "So the individual (Tweiten) was provided with a copy of the (no sit/no lay) ordinance, the individual was given a verbal admonition and told that, if he did not move, the individual would be cited the next day," Whitcomb said.
