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By day, hes just a 5-year-old boy from Northern California. But when the city needs a hero, he becomes the Batkid.
And today is one of those days. The Riddler and the Penguin are terrorizing San Francisco, in a nefarious plot hatched by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The group has also converted two black Lamborghinis into Batmobiles to escort Batkid around the city as he battles the forces of evil. Along the way, hell be guided by dispatches from Police Chief Greg Suhr and cheered on by at least 12,000 grateful citizens.
We have done other superhero wishes before at Make-A-Wish, and no city has embraced it like this one, Patricia Wilson, the foundations director for the Bay Area, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Chronicle loaned out its presses for a special edition, the Gotham City Chronicle, with a front-page story by Clark Kent. (Reprints will be available in Saturdays regular edition.) Batkid is also being aided in escapades by the San Francisco Giants, the municipal government, a social-media consultancy, and what seems like most of the city.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog/wp/2013/11/15/batkid-rescues-grateful-san-francisco-from-riddler-penguin/
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Well done. Love my (former) city.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth