Startling news from the world of dudes who look like other dudes getting punches because they look like that dude. A 26-year-old guy in New York City named Mario Licato copped a punch in the face on the way to a concert in Manhattan because he looks like Shia LaBeouf.
I was unaware that anybody on Earth had strong enough beliefs about LeBeouf to necessitate punching a dude who, quite honestly, does not really look like him at all.
Licato relayed the experience:
“All I saw was fists. I fell down the stairs and woke up covered in blood with my glasses broken in half. All I heard him say was, ‘This is because you look like ‘Shia LaBeouf!’ And then he ran away,”
So apparently it wasn’t even a crime of mistaken identity. This dude knew he wasn’t looking at the Transformers star, he just was so outraged by the mild similarity that he punched him in the kisser. That’s commitment to your hatred, right there.
LeBouef… has hair. And a beard, sometimes. I guess he has a nose and other facial features that Licato also shares. It’s all there. But I’m still not feeling it. “I’ve been told a bunch of times that I look like him, but never got hit for it,” he said. “I guess people really don’t like his performance art.”
The five-foot-nine ‘fratboy attacker’ ran away after the assault and hasn’t been apprehended. How ’bout it.
Source: News.com.au
Photo: Getty Images / Taylor Hill.
