Paul Kane is walking across a a big chunk of Australia for charity. Seems altruistically normal enough. Thing is, he’s doing it in a Trooper suit.<\/p>\n

Toronto Star photogallery<\/a><\/p>\n

When people started to send me links about this via Twitter or email (or even a co-worker over my cube wall) that there was this guy doing this thing in a Stormtrooper suit and did I know about it, I had one of those gut wrenching “I should have\/could have thought of that” moments.<\/p>\n

Sort of like seeing the trailer for “The Beginners<\/a>” (wow a movie about a dad who comes out of the closet – the same idea I’ve had in my head for the last 10 years or so).<\/p>\n

Anyway, so I started to think hard about how I could plus this up if I were to do something with my suit:<\/p>\n

Just steal<\/del> borrow the idea.<\/strong> Nothing is new – there are no original thoughts. One might argue that our Aussie boy got the idea from Terry Fox. Yeah! Where’s your originality now, Mr Kane? Huh?<\/p>\n

Then the whole logistics of doing something like that comes into play. How am I going to pay rent if I take the (approximately) 3 years it would take for me to walk across Canada? I doubt I’d have a husband to come home to, as well. So no, short and sweet seems to be the tonic.<\/p>\n

Do a different kind of strenuous activity.<\/strong> Basically wearing a trooper suite more than 30 min in this summer heat would result in me fainting like a Dickensian character. So that’s particularly limiting. Unless I do something in the fall\/winter. Then I would need a Snowtrooper suit.<\/p>\n

I thought of maybe climbing the tower but since Joe Eppele was denied the right to do so in a Sasquatch suit, then that’s out of the question.<\/p>\n

Any ideas?<\/p>\n

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