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Bar Harbor Batman is a moron.

BrandX

By BrandX,
Posted on: 2012-04-02 15:38 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture

 

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From my new favorite comic book news site comes this lovely tale of an April Fool's prank gone wrong:

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Maine’s Bangor Daily News reports that 35-year-old Christopher Schwartz, the self-styled Bar Harbor Batman — “A Beacon of light in a bleak and otherwise dismal world” — was arrested Sunday after posting a Joker-esque April Fool’s prank demanding “payment of 1 million Dollars or I will Blow up the Hospital. Once the funds are secured, Private Message me for Further Instruction.”
They released him on $1,000 dollars bail. He's lucky they let him go. Since he's known for dressing up as Batman and wandering the streets of Bar Harbor at night, a judge could easily have decided he was insane and locked him up for a long time.

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Man, that's straight out of the Silver Age.

"Batman, why are you trying to blow up that hospital???" "I HAVE TO!"

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Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
Wait..is this something he posted on his facebook?
Yep. It's a line from The Dark Knight, and he was surprised that anyone took him seriously...but they did.

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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd View Post
Yep. It's a line from The Dark Knight, and he was surprised that anyone took him seriously...but they did.
Yeah. That's what suprises me too.

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Yeah sorry, I don't care if it is April 1st, you don't joke about blowing up a hospital (not in any kind of a public forum, anyway). At all.

"You don't lose levels. You don't have equipment to wear out, repair, or lose, or that anyone can steal from you. About the only thing lighter than debt they could do is have an NPC walk by, point and laugh before you can go to the hospital or base." -Memphis_Bill
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The authorities do frown on threats of terrorism and mass murder. Weird.

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There is a reason it's against the law to yell Fire! in a public space...

Text mediums are even worse, as they leave very little method of sarcasm or impersonation detection. With the demographic of FB users... I can imagine a few grandmas that had never even heard of the Joker taking it seriously.

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