New York Man Gets Knocked Out For Resembling Shia LaBeouf

New York Man Gets Knocked Out For Resembling Shia LaBeouf

This story in TheGothamist highlights the dangers of looking like a celebrity. As appealing as that might sound, the free drinks, people asking for selfies, the adulation of complete strangers, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be according to one man…

This past weekend, Mario Licato had all the makings of a carefree Saturday. He’d met some friends for lunch, then repaired to a friend’s apartment in Cobble Hill for the afternoon. Around 8 p.m., he hopped on the F train by himself to go catch a show at Pianos on the Lower East Side. Getting off the train at Delancey Street, he ran into trouble.

“I was walking up the stairs,” he remembers. “I had my head down—there were people in front of me—just to make sure I wasn’t going to fall.”

He continued:

I didn’t even see the guy. I just see his fist coming towards me. It knocked me, and while I was falling down the stairs, all I hear was, “This is because you look exactly like Shia LaBeouf!”

Licato says he lost consciousness when he landed at the foot of the stairs, and when he came to his face was covered in blood, his glasses broken in half. A couple rushed to his aid and asked, “Did you know that guy?”

It’s one thing to get into a fight with someone and take a whoopin’, but to get knocked unconscious by a complete stranger…

I was so confused. I was even more confused because I got up and I was like, am I crazy or did I hear him say, “This is because you look like Shia LaBeouf?” And [the couple] were like, “Nope. That’s exactly what he said as he was running away from you.”

Moral of the story, don’t look like Shia LaBeouf.

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