The word “nerd” is thrown around so frequently nowadays, it’s more or less completely lost its impact and its negative implications; everyone who owned a comic book or got called a name in high school seems all too happy to proclaim their nerdhood nowadays, turning the once negative stigma into a devauled, vague adjective to describe just about anyone.

Fortunately, every so often something happens to remind us about what a TRUE nerd is. For example, a man in a Darth Vader mask and a black garbage bag being charged with assault for attacking a Jedi Church:

Arwel Wynne Hughes, 27, from Holyhead, Anglesey, admitted assaulting Barney Jones and cousin Michael with a metal crutch. They suffered minor injuries.

Hughes, who was drunk and dressed in a black bin bag, shouted “Darth Vader!”

Earlier, when Hughes failed to arrive on time, District Judge Andrew Shaw issued an arrest warrant, adding: “I hope the force will soon be with him.”

That, my poser friends, is how nerding is really done. Although I am a little surprised he was drunk — I didn’t think true hardcore nerds needed alcohol to justify their nerdy assaults, but maybe yesterday was some sort of Imperial Space Oktoberfest and the Vader character technically was acting in character by getting hammered.

In my humble opinion, if you start a Jedi Church, you’re just begging for a drunk guy in a Darth Vader mask to show up and start wrecking shop, but maybe that’s just me.