US police arrest 'fake Joker'

Reuters

NO LAUGHING MATTER: A man dressed as Heath Ledger's character The Joker from The Dark Knight has been arrested in a Michegan cinema.

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Police have arrested a man after he was allegedly seen taking posters and other Batman related items from a Michigan cinema while dressed as The Joker.

News agency Associated Press reported police arrived at the Three Rivers 6 theatre to find a man wearing a purple suit, green wig and face paint being restrained by cinema employees.

Spencer Taylor, 20, would most likely be charged with larceny and malicious destruction of property, AP quoted a police officer as saying.

The Dark Knight, the second in Christopher Nolan's current Batman film series, is a worldwide box office hit.

It stars Heath Ledger in his last, highly acclaimed role as The Joker, a man intent on causing as much chaos and destruction as possible.

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