aol.com- The mighty hammer of "Thor" reverberated through box offices this weekend, collecting $25.7 million on Friday. But nowhere was the opening more "Swede" than in Los Angeles, where a group famous for staging Viking role-playing events donned helmets and raided local theaters.
The group, called The Norse Hollywood Dining Vikings, dress up in variations of Viking gear in order to go to nice restaurants to eat, drink and be merry -- other guests be damned!
But this past Friday, instead of raiding the local IKEA for Swedish meatballs, 24 chain-mail-clad, horned-helmet-wearing members of the troupe chose to see "Thor" at the Americana, a movie theater in Glendale.
It makes sense, since the Marvel Comics character is based on a character in Scandinavian mythology -- the same culture that spawned the roving, marauding Vikings.
Like any good raid, the Dining Vikings did not warn the movie theater employees that two dozen Viking wannabes were about to converge on the theater in full regalia.
However, the ushers didn't exactly react with shock or awe once the Dining Vikings arrived en masse -- even when Swatton told them, 'We're here to see 'African Cats.'"
"They were nonplussed," Swatton told AOL Weird News. "However, the other people in the theater loved it. They were happy to see 'Thor' with real Vikings. A few people came up and said we made their year. Others thought we were the Capital One guys -- we always get that -- and asked 'What's in your wallet?'"
"A few people came up and said we made their year"? Are you fucking kidding me? That's the biggest line of bullshit I've ever heard. There's no possible way that that ever happened. What kind of lunatic would be impressed by a bunch of morons dressed as vikings showing up at Thor? And let's just say for a minute that somebody actually was impressed. Their is no way that the guy would actually walk up to a viking and say it. This guy is so full of shit. Just say people liked your costumes. Don't try to tell me that it made their year, though, because you know that's an outright lie. I challenge this Swatton guy to produce anybody that was really impressed by this ridiculous stunt. I guarantee he cannot. And on the off chance that he's telling the truth, and can actually find this guy, lock him up immediately. He's obviously a psychopath.
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