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Real Life Super Hero Arrested
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."
It wasn't until I read your comment that I realized the guy you replied to was describing the bad guys.
I thought he meant the police.
The police *are* the bad guys.
Its nice when things are so black and white. Things seldom are.
Let me tell you another story of a "Super Hero". She is a hair dresser most days, but on her day off, she got involved and helped an old lady who was taken advantage of by a car dealer. She drove that lady down to the dealership, when her own family wouldn't, and gave them holy hell. She even went back the next day, crying and pleading with them to make right with the old woman. A true american....oh wait....
Thats right, that woman was my grandmother. Oh and they "took advantage of her" by doing some body work on her car, fixing it up, and somehow not magically predicting that the fuel pump was going to die 3 weeks later, at which point, they told her that it wasn't worth fixing. Then what did these bastards do? Well, after she told them to junk it, and couldn't find the title.... they did her a favor (afterall, the service manager was a friend of the family) and found someone who would take it for junk without the title.
Real bastards eh? Well after she watched some TV and heard some guy saying he would pay $400 for a junked car, decided that they had screwed her and they got $400 that she should have gotten. It doesn't help that she is 87 and sometimes looses it a bit. Hell, the day after she went down to the dealership to give them hell, she was telling my mother and I how she had been laying around the house in bed for two whole days.
My grandmother is totally wrong in this deal, doesn't really remember what happened very well (she doesn't remember telling them it was ok to junk it, though we all know she did, we talked with her about it before she did it), but, she doesn't know that. She is heading into senile at the ripe old age of 87.
However, the wanna be super hero, she is in her 20s and while well meaning, got involved without understanding the whole story, and went way overboard, got her all riled up, and completely embarrassed a long time friend of the family at his work.
Knowing what to do when three guys are beating the snot out of one guy is easy, and its sad that more people are not willing to stand up. However, thats a rare and fantastic situation that doesn't come up every day. Real situations are far more complex.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"