What's this - Captain Jack Sparrow in Kent? And the swashbuckling Pirate of the Caribbean appears to have been disarmed.

In fact it's Johnny Depp lookalike Clint Stevenson, 26, from Ramsgate, who makes a living appearing as strutting Captain Jack, black-hearted villain of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

And he really has lost his trusty musket. It was confiscated by police at the London Eye.

Clint, pictured here promoting one of the stands at the recent Social Care Expo 08 at the Kent Showground, was entertaining the tourists when police seized the toy musket.

"The police came over and said, ‘we can either take it and destroy it, or arrest you’. Well it was an obvious choice wasn’t it? I let them take it. They said it looked real."

Now Clint is adding a second Johnny Depp character to his repertoire - Sweeney Todd from the recent Demon Barber of Fleet Street movie.

Read the full story in this week's Thanet Extra.