Gene Wilder stands among Oompa Loompas in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.” (© Everett Collection/Rex Features)

Oompa Loompas attack a man in the UK. No, really.

1/1/2013

Random assaults by public mobs are scarier when they're dressed as Oompa Loompas, as we’re sure one Englishman can now attest. According to police, an unidentified man in Norwich was innocently exiting a kebab restaurant when four assailants -- two of whom wearing orange-painted faces, hooped tops, and green hair -- attacked him as he was leaving. The Willy Wonka-lovin' thugs left the poor 28-year-old with cuts and black eyes. Did they sing, "do-ba-dee-dee" as they ran off? [Source]

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