Sigh, I thought all this needless “Star Wars” hype was behind us when “Episode III” premiered. Take a look at this member of the “Dork” Side of the Force who painted himself up like Darth Maul and threatened a student with a gun…

BEAVERTON, Ore. (The Denver Channel.com) — An Oregon man faces disorderly conduct charges after police said he brandished what appeared to be a gun outside a Beaverton middle school on Monday.

The man, identified by police as Dusten Jacob Williams, 20, also had painted his face to resemble the devil, officers said.

Police were called after several parents parked outside the Conestoga Middle School said they saw a man in face paint pull what appeared to be a handgun from his pants. At one point, they said, the man pressed the gun into the stomach of a student.

What possibly could have possessed this kid to do such a dorky, dumb thing? I mean other than the fact that he’s a virgin…

This kid rides up to the school, pulls a gun (it was a realistic looking Glock, but it turned out to be an unloaded BB-gun, nothing to be overly alarmed about here) out of the back of his pants and points it at a student and then at the school while he’s in full makeup. Then he rides away on his skateboard. The only way this kid could have looked dorkier is if he tried to evade police on a pogo stick.

After police picked up him just a few blocks away, he said he was just showing the gun off to his friends and he acknowledged that pulling out a gun, real or otherwise, that close to the school “probably wasn’t a good idea.” When the local newspaper printed the statement, they received word that the Pultizer Prizes had just nominated them for their coveted “Understatement of the Year” award. Williams will be competing against Sen. Cynthia McKinney for telling the press that slapping a police officer who was just asking for identification was wrong, and Dallas Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells when he told reporters at the end of last season that they should have played better.