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And I thought I was a geek.
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This part of the RLSH (real life superhero) thing that cropped up after Kick-Ass came out. There is probably one in your city. I think you can even look it up online.
Sheer idiocyThe early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.Comment
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""A Michigan man dressed in a Batman costume was arrested early this morning after cops found him hanging off the ledge of a building.""
If he'd dressed up as Spider-Man he could have swung away and not been caught. Silly man.Comment
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And the police are calling it all evidence and won't give me my stuff back. I should never have taken it to the drycleaners.
Mikehuh?Comment
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LOL, Michael!!
Cheers,
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"Don't make me get my flying monkeys!"Comment
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I've always said if I ever won the lottery I'd employ someone to dress up as a giant bat and go around the streets at night fighting crime... I'd do it myself but am held back by two things (1) I'm monumentally unfit (2) I'm a tremendous physical coward.Comment
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A committed comic book geek weighs in on this thread a few days late:Originally posted by Errata View Post
Errata, the website you mention is www.reallifesuperheroes.org/, and it is a phenomenon that has been going on considerably longer than since "Kick-Ass" came out. Whether we're talking about the comic or the movie, "Kick-Ass" is a story less than two years old. Most of the people involved actually do very little crime fighting and are more involved with helping the homeless and other charitable activites trying to make their neighborhoods better places to live. Could that be done without wearing a costume? Of course, but it's the path some have chosen, wanting to remain anonymous.
It raises questions, I think (and I hope some of you all will weigh in on them) about someone who might choose to actually try and be a masked crimefighter. The laws differ in various places on whether it is a crime for an adult to wear a mask in public on days other than Halloween, which weapons are legal to carry and which ones are not, on the use of force in self defense, and on citizen's arrests. As long as a person is in compliance with all such laws wherever he or she is, I say why not? If you want to put yourself in harm's way to help others, you might be crazy but you've certainly got cajones. And if you are doing it in violation of certain laws, you do so at your own legal peril. But then there are Curtis Sliwa's Guardian Angels, who have been doing more or less the same thing without weapons and without being anonymous for many years. What's the difference?
Personally, I once knew a young woman who had killed two people- the first an abusive husband who she shot in self defense and was not convicted, and the second a rapist who she saw attacking a stranger and fatally kicked him in the throat, for which she did a couple of years in prison because it wasn't technically "self defense." Quite the slippery slope.
As for the Batman fanatic in Michigan, he certainly could have come up with a costume that wasn't so lame. Remember the scene with the copycats in "The Dark Knight" where one of them asks the real Batman what the difference is between him and them, and he growls, "I'm not wearing hockey pads!"Comment
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