'Banana Boy' Arrested After Mock Fight

Banana Boy's superpowers weren't enough to help him and the rest of his bunch give police the slip.

The local Washington County television character, who goes by the name Chris Phelps when he's not donning his superhero's large yellow banana crime-fighting costume, was arrested at gunpoint along with two others when police mistook their skit for a real-life knife fight.

It all began in a Main Street parking lot in a Washington County village 45 miles north of Albany, where the 20-year-old Phelps, his brother Jonathan and friend Luke were filming their television show which chronicles the adventures of Banana Boy.

During the skit, Banana Boy was attacked by one of them with a prop knife just as the local Sheriff's Deputy Shawn Lovelace was driving down the street.

"He's stabbing him", bystanders yelled as Lovelace got out of his patrol car. Unaware the whole thing was staged, officer Lovelace drew his handgun and ordered Banana Boy and his colleagues to the ground. They complied � quickly.

"I saw they were fighting ... and saw one of them had a knife", Lovelace said. Police said Banana Boy and the others, were charged with disorderly conduct for disrupting traffic and not informing police they were going to be filming.

"I said, `Oh my God, don't shoot the banana'", said Steven Wilson, who was watching the skit being filmed when Lovelace came upon the scene with his gun drawn. "It was the funniest thing I've ever seen".

The trio is expected back in village court on Dec. 15.

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