I’ve gotten my best stories from Comic-Con while leaving to get lunch downtown.

Today at around 1:30, I had just walked out the front doors, and there was a good looking guy getting angry with security. Nothing so unusual about that, until I realized a lot of cameras were taking photos of the guy.

That seemed strange, too. After all, he wasn’t dressed up like a Klingon.

A few women standing nearby were shaking and saying “Oh my God! I can’t believe it’s him!”

He looked familiar to me, but I couldn’t place him. I said, “Can I ask you…who is that?”

One told me, in a sentence so fast I almost couldn’t understand her, “That’s Joshua Jackson, from Fringe. He’s the best, most handsome man ever to be on TV!”

Joshua Jackson, refused entry.

^{Photo by Josh Board}

I see a security guard in a yellow jacket still refusing to let him in. Jackson throws his hands in the air and says “I’m supposed to be in there. I’m not one of the fans, I’m supposed to talk about the show.”

I ask the other girl about Jackson, and in a much calmer voice she said, “He’s been in at least 30 movies. He was in Cruel Intentions and Oceans 11.”

The other girl, in her quick, excited voice, adds “He was soooo great in Dawson’s Creek. He dated Katie Holmes before she married Tom Cruise. He beat out Jake Gyllenhaal for that part.”

(The part of boyfriend to Holmes, or on the show, I wondered to myself)

Her friend adds, “But Christian Bale beat him out for the part of Batman.”

Since Jackson was having no luck with this security guard, he went over to another security guard. At this point, about 50 people were watching this and taking photos. One film crew quickly tried to get their camera out.

Jackson pleaded his case to this guy, who also refused to let him in. What I’m baffled by is -- security must know this guy is somebody. There’s to much of a commotion going on, and fans yelling his name. Shouldn’t they whip out a walkie talkie and ask for their boss?

I ask the girls to tell me about his show Fringe. Another guy decided to jump in and told me “It’s a J.J. Abrams, sci-fi thing. Think X-Files meets Twilight Zone. He plays Peter Bishop, the mad scientist.”

I asked “Is there any other kind of scientist?”

“Oh, well…in this, he really is mad. He was supposed to be institutionalized due to a lab accident.”

(this is exactly why I don’t watch sci-fi shows)

One of the girls told me, “Speaking of being a mad scientist, he’s also a mad hockey fan. Not only was he in the Might Ducks movies, but he got arrested at a hockey game once.”

I look back up at Jackson, who said to security guard #2, “Look at all these people! Am I just supposed to stand out here, and deal with all of this, because you guys don’t know who I am?

Ah, the old “don’t you know who I am?” line. That’s never good form.

When Jackson walks over to see what’s behind glass door number three – yet another security guard -- that guy waves him in, saying “I recognize you. Come on in.” Jackson looks back at security guard #2, saying “See. He knew who I was!”

The crowd applauded.

I borrowed my friend's laptop at lunch and Googled. I wanted to see if he was really arrested at a hockey game.

I see that this Canadian was in fact arrested in 2002, at a Carolina Hurricanes game in Raleigh, North Carolina. Any guesses as to why he was arrested?

(insert drum roll here)

If you guessed another altercation with a security guard, you’re a winner!

He was charged with assault and public drunkenness, which he plead guilty to (he had a 0.14 blood alcohol level, for all you sci-fi fans into your statistics).

At least this situation ended amicably.

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