"The Bedford-Stuyvesant engineer was at a Myrtle Avenue bar last fall when a thief snatched what Obi-Wan Kenobi once described as 'an elegant weapon for a more civilized age' - a $400 custom sword Michael used to teach young Jedi honor and self-esteem. 'Who steals somebody's light saber? It's like stealing someone's toy out of the sandbox,' said Michael, the founder of New York Jedi, a stage combat performance group. 'I finally got my uber custom saber, and then some jerk walks out with it. I guess that's the joke - some Jedi I turned out to be.'" [Brooklyn Paper]