Kalpen Modi, known outside the Beltway as actor Kal Penn, may be ditching Washington and his White House post in a month to finish off the “Harold & Kumar” franchise, but he’s still a little shaken from his recent mugging.
“They held me down on the ground at gunpoint,” Modi recounted to Yeas & Nays at Friday’s New Yorker party. “I didn’t know if they were going to shoot me or something.” Modi held his hands over his head re-enacting the encounter and explained that he was merely walking home from grabbing drinks with friends when he became one of several Washingtonians who were mugged that night.
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