Don't play a playa.

Entertainment Tonight is reporting that the man who tried to extort Tom Cruise, pictured above trying to steal Jack Nicholson's schtick, for some stolen wedding photos has been arrested by the FBI.

Cruise's rep said that the man himself is in Germany right now, so he doesn't technically have anything to do with this story. But nonetheless, one David Hans Schmidt reportedly contacted the Cruise family recently, offering to sell them the stolen pictures at exorbitant prices. SeaOrg... I mean... Cruise's people... then contacted the FBI and US Attorney's Office about the affair, leading to the arrest of the suspiciously German sounding culprit on Tuesday.

Make you own connection between the ethnic feel of the guy's name and the fact that Cruise is in Germany.

All the information that ET has, I have just passed on to you.

What's got my brow perked is the involvement of the FBI. Now, if this Schmidt character actually is in Germany, I can understand it. But if this is a domestic problem... isn't the FBI a little... overdoing it? I mean, these are wedding pictures, not the Maltese Falcon.

But, even setting that aside, you have to admire the balls Mr. Schmidt (I just like typing that name, for some reason) showed in trying to swindle the poster boy of a "religion" which charges its adherents thousands of dollars to purge alien ghosts from their bodies.

That's kind of like getting into a Bible passage quoting battle with the Pope, or a head-to-head skank-off with Paris Hilton. You're not only going to lose, but you're going to lose badly.




Source: Etonline