Starbombs!
Looks like somebody forgot the first rule of Fight Club: you do not talk about Fight Club! A Chelsea teenager has been arrested in connection with May’s pre-dawn bombing outside an NYC Starbucks store — and it turns out the 17-year-old was obsessed with Fight Club, the 1999 movie starring buff-and-bloody Edward Norton and Brad Pitt. The teen had started his own brawling gang with friends, who would meet up at various locales around town and beat the living shit out of each other. But then things got a little more carried away: “His statements indicated he was launching his own ‘Project Mayhem,’” says NYPD Commish Kelly, referring to a plan in Fight Club to sabotage symbols of corporate America by destroying high-profile property. Apparently that’s what inspired him to jerry-rig a homemade explosive device and leave it outside the Starbucks — something he was so proud of he couldn’t help but brag to friends about it. Hey, at least the kid doesn’t think he’s Superman!?