May the Force be with you. Police in Scotland reported that an armed man who led to a train returning to a station was just a “Star Wars” cosplayer on his way to a comic book convention.
The man, otherwise known as the Grampian Stormtrooper online, was dressed in his Imperial Stormtrooper costume with the addition of a kilt when he boarded a ScotRail train to Dundee at the Aberdeen train station.
The train returned back to the station shortly after departing and the costumed man was approached by a guard. The cosplayer wrote on Facebook that he was “met by two firearms officers, three Police Scotland, two British Transport police, and had to chat to them all in an office.”
There, Grampian Stormtrooper learned that he had been reported for carrying a “firearm” on the train despite his “blaster” just being a plastic prop. After explaining this to officers, police took the man home so he could get a bag for his blaster so he wouldn’t alarm any train passengers again.
He was also asked not to wear his full Stormtrooper armor on the train in case a similar situation were to happen again.