Holy Vigilante, real life superheroes
Truth is so often stranger than fiction. In America the number of people dressing up in spandex and rubber and going out into the streets as real life superheroes is fast growing.
In an article in the Times Online we learn that “There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who are willing to dress up as comic book heroes and patrol the urban streets in search of, if not super-villains, then pickpockets and bullies.”
But this quote from the article pretty much summed up the whole concept for me:
Artemis of San Diego reported on his blog that he had heard a woman screaming outside his home but by the time he had dressed up in his costume the police were already there.
Especially when you couple the above quote with this one:
“I was out every night, 8pm until 2am, hanging about all the bad corners and nothing happened, nada, zip,” recalled Mr Invisible. “It was raining: even the drug dealers were at home. And often cops are just too good at their jobs.”
Life ain’t like the funny books, kids.
Hat tip to Dogmatic for pointing out the article.
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Killing someone is easy. Living in a black and white world is easy too.
The only thing this says about you is that you don’t think past your own bloodlust. And your justifications make you just as bad as the guys you go after.
So basically you’re just another piece of shit. An unoriginal, caveman piece of shit.
Shit, this post truly is a zombie!
Braaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnsssss!!!!
In case you haven’t noticed, Z, the ‘bad guys’(as you call them) don’t give a shit about ethics. Sometimes hands must be dirtied to do what is right. By the way, your Myspace’s URL is “the urban mercenary”. How do you call it that when you openly criticize me for my tactics? Also, how do you justify that it’s easy to kill someone when you never have? You say that I’m a piece of shit? Is that what you call someone when you’ve been outwitted everywhere else? Wow, and I thought you could sink no lower. Also, your trail of posts about yourself and your drunkard of a mother have led me to believe that you suffer from an unfortunate mental illness. My condolences, asshole.
Oh wow, that stupid rlsh thing is still going? Wow, I need to delete these losers’ Myspaces and such. As to Rain, good luck killing all of those…ahem…bad guys. As for Alan, love your site, you are very interesting, thoughtful and funny. I’ll remember not to target your site:). As to Z, umm, you’ve contradicted yourself on almost all of your posts. You’ve also managed to misunderstand what everyone was saying. Reading comprehension fail.
OK, I think this thing has run its course. Thanks for the crazy ride everyone – now let’s all walk away and get on with whatever lives we choose to follow. Nothing to see here.