obliviousunction:

thedailywhat:

Down With This Sort Of Thing of the Day: Darth Vader impersonator Chris Mitchell approaches LAPD officers on the step of City Hall, where yesterday several costumed characters gathered to protest the city’s recent crackdown on Hollywood Boulevard’s professional cosplayers.

From Curbed LA:

“The general consensus in the business community is that [Hollywood Boulevard] is better off without the characters,” [President & CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Leon Gubler] says, adding that with the addition of the CD vendors, pedestrians are having a difficult time simply walking down the sidewalk. Not that Gubler doesn’t respect some of these long-time performers. “Superman has always been a gentleman,” says Gubler of Dennis. “He’s not caused problems.”

[gawker.]