Real Life Super Hero Arrested

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 12, 2011 @02:02AM from the not-super-enough dept.

First time accepted submitter Pat Attack writes "In an ironic twist of fate, Phoenix Jones, a self-styled super hero from Seattle, has landed in jail. Jones happened upon a group of people fighting in the street and tried to stop the fight using pepper spray. He was arrested by police on four counts of assault. The New York Daily News quotes Jones: 'I've been shot once and I don't really want it to happen again. I've been stabbed twice, hit with a baseball bat and had my nose broken,' he says. 'But in all those incidents I helped someone who was in danger. If someone is going to take that punishment it should be the guy in body armor,' he said."

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Re:Ironically or maybe sadly by Anonymous Coward · 2011-10-12 02:18 · Score: 4, Informative

Officer Anthony Bologna has yet to be given his comeuppance.
Re:Article is Wrong - Guy Has Become a Pest by Aeiri · 2011-10-12 03:36 · Score: 4, Informative

Uhhh.... okay. Friends claim there is no fight, fine. They still hit a random guy with their car: http://vimeo.com/30307440 I'm no fan of vigilantism and I think he was being a self-righteous ass in this instance, but there WAS crime being committed, people were getting attacked.