Superhero Arrested

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gingerjedi replied

11 October 2011, 15:20
Originally posted by d000hg View Post

No: Real Life Superheroes.org » Ultimate resources site about the Real Life Superheroes culture

Possible holiday venue for CUK?

In the comics/films, superheroes often have similar strained relationships with the authorities...

Leave 'em alone, I have a strange affinity with such people.

DC > Marvel (but only because of Batman)
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d000hg replied

11 October 2011, 14:54
Originally posted by Arturo Bassick View Post

I wonder if he has seen "Kick Ass"

No: Real Life Superheroes.org » Ultimate resources site about the Real Life Superheroes culture

Possible holiday venue for CUK?

In the comics/films, superheroes often have similar strained relationships with the authorities...
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PAH replied

11 October 2011, 14:08
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Well worth a watch.

I would, if Lovefilm had it on rental.

They'll let me buy it though.

Apparently some film studios don't have agreements with them. And some wonder why there's never a system offering all films and music. Too many self-important cretins running the show. e.g. Simon Cowell, the ****.
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PAH replied

11 October 2011, 14:04
Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Phoenix Jones

I wonder if he's related to Lolo Jones.

Hubba-hubba.

Or our very own Halo Jones.
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MarillionFan replied

11 October 2011, 13:59
Originally posted by Arturo Bassick View Post

I wonder if he has seen "Kick Ass"

Looks like it.

That's a fantastic film. Well worth a watch. Very funny.
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TimberWolf replied

11 October 2011, 12:12
Who beat him up, the brawlers or the police?
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Arturo Bassick replied

11 October 2011, 12:07
I wonder if he has seen "Kick Ass"
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NickFitz started a topic Superhero Arrested

11 October 2011, 12:04
Superhero Arrested

Seattle 'superhero' Phoenix Jones arrested over pepper-spray allegations

Seattle's most prolific self-styled superhero has ended up in handcuffs.

Police officers arrested the 23-year-old man who calls himself Phoenix Jones early on Sunday after he allegedly assaulted several people with pepper spray. He was held in county jail on four counts of assault, with arraignment set for Thursday, police said.

Jones, who wears a black mask with yellow stripes and a bodysuit, said he was only trying to stop a street brawl.

"Just because he's dressed up in costume, it doesn't mean he's in special consideration or above the law. You can't go around pepper spraying people because you think they are fighting," said Seattle police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson.

Here's Jon Ronson's account of meeting him a few months ago:

I am rushing to the emergency room to meet a real-life superhero called Phoenix Jones, who has fought one crime too many and is currently peeing a lot of blood. Five nights a week, Phoenix dresses in a superhero outfit of his own invention and chases car thieves and breaks up bar fights and changes the tires of stranded strangers. I've flown to Seattle to join him on patrol. I landed only a few minutes ago, at midnight on a Friday in early March, and in the arrivals lounge I phoned his friend and spokesman, Peter Tangen, who told me the news.

"Hospital?" I said. "Is he okay?"

"I don't know," said Peter. He sounded worried. "The thing you have to remember about Phoenix is that he's not impervious to pain." He paused. "You should get a taxi straight from the airport to there."

At 1 a.m. I arrive at the ER and am led into Phoenix's room. And there he is: a young and extremely muscular black man lying in bed in a hospital smock, strapped to an IV, tubes attached to his body. Most disconcertingly, he's wearing a full-face black-and-gold rubber superhero mask.

What a wally
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