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Real Life Super Heroes

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28 pointsbrennannovak8 comments

It's kinda funny my GF saw this on reddit a few weeks back and yell for me to "Come see it". She points at one of the guys and says that' is XXXX from college, a former bar hopping drinking buddy.

I say no way.

Sure enough...a couple of Facebook wall posts later his secret identity has been outed.

Could Batman exist in a world with social media?

My first reaction is that it makes me want to be a real-life super villain. Unfortunately for me, I have neither the time or the evilness to do so. Unfortunately for them, there are others that will have both.

Is this related??

"Police alerted to 'superheroes' patrolling Seattle"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1923355

No. I couldn't find a straightforward "this is what we are all about" explanation on the RLSH website, but from what I was able to piece together reading through it, they are not crime fighters. Their entire focus is on community service, which they just happen to dress up as superheros for. To give one example, "Citizen Prime" would dress up as a superhero and give talks to school kids about being good citizens. If you think about it, it's not that different from McGruff the Crime Dog or Smokey the Bear, or any of the other innumerable theme-promoting mascots used in an attempt to get kids engaged in a particular cause. Others dress up as superheros to hand out food and/or toiletries to the homeless.

EDIT: One of them, "Super Hero," does border on the "crime fighting" job: he's basically a neighborhood watch leader, which does sometimes involve confronting people in the process of criminal acts.

This looks like a very productive movement which can create extremely positive results... until some caped guy gets stabbed or shot.

Something that, surprisingly, hasn't happened yet. Thanks to the police.

In an effort to curtail the problem, criminals have started the one bullet per super hero project.

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