Posted on 01/06/2011 5:12:05 AM PST by Cowman
He doesn’t have super powers, but he dresses like a superhero.
Seattle residents are becoming familiar with an anonymous crime fighter known only as “Phoenix Jones.” Like a comic book star, he has a skin-tight suit and caries weapons such as a taser and pepper spray. And he recently rescued a man going through a car jacking:
KIRO reports:
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Monique Ming Laven met him.
“My name is Phoenix Jones,” said the man.
The man is the hero Dan’s been trying to tell his friends about.“
People are saying, ‘No way, dude, you were probably drunk,’” said Dan.
But the superhero sounded familiar to Ming Laven. She had heard about how he and the other eight members of his Rain City Superhero crime fighting movement walk the street, eyes out for crime and prepared to fight it.On Monday night, the fully-clad superhero and Dan met.
“That’s crazy. Nice to meet you, brother. Nice to meet you. That’s insane,” said Dan, who finally got a close-up look at his savior.
“Phoenix” explained his whole super suit, including bullet-proof vest and stab plates, to Dan.
“That’s a Taser night stick. And I have Mace slash tear gas over here,” said Phoenix.
Then it was time for Phoenix to get back out on the streets, maybe not quite a super man, but an extraordinary one.
“I symbolize that the average person doesn’t have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing,” Phoenix told the news station. He explained that he started fighting crime about nine months ago and that it’s dangerous work: he’s been stabbed and had a gun pulled on him a few times.
But he doesn’t recommend this life for everyone: “I don’t condone people walking around on the street with masks. Everyone on my team either has a military background or a mixed martial arts background, and we’re well aware of what its costs to do what we do.”
Local Police department spokesman Jeff Kappel wasn’t as opposed to the vigilantly idea as one might think. “There’s nothing wrong with citizens getting involved with the criminal justice process – as long as they follow it all the way through,”
The Pastor of my church, who was an Army Ranger, (and he never tires of letting you know) - when he first moved to Seattle back in the mid 1990s was riding a Seattle bus through the city. A belligerent man was going up and down the aisle harassing passengers. When he approached my Pastor, he told the man to sit down and shut up. The man asked my Pastor, “Who the hell are you?”. My Pastor responded, “I am the Army Ranger that is going to make you sit down, or I am a Pastor. Which one do you want me to be?” The man sat down and behaved himself for the rest of the trip, getting off at the next stop.
I heard him tale that story in several sermons, and I never tire of it.
Love it!!! God bless him. I hope he doesn’t get killed.
Back around 1980 when the guardian angel movement was big we got the idea to patrol our college ghetto. We would walk around with baseball bats and the crime dropped to zero very quickly. The cops never gave us any trouble. I doubt you can do this today.
Head shot.
For some reason, I’m looking forward to this tard’s obituary.
Hmmmm. I’m wondering - is what I’m seeing under that skin tight uniform real? Problem with being a super hero and wearing a costume remenicient of “300” is you loose the element of surprise.
A car.
There's got to be a car.
I give you...the Phoenix concept!
There's got to be a car.
This was posted @ 11:30 AM today on Jalopnik. Great timing!
What Superhero Would Drive Which Sub-$40,000 Car?
;^)
Phoenix Jones and his sidekick, Velvet.
Been watching too many super hero/vigilante movies.
He and his buddies seem to be prepared, but if the perps get organized, they’ll be in deep [not a ladylike word].
This is a great story. Thank goodness for folks with creativity, imagination, bravado, and playfulness.
Thought I might mention that I have been conducting a sort of life-long, informal, private study regarding military accomplishments, combat history, etc.
I have simply found that the folks who talk the most about their rank and affiliation have the most to hide, or have hidden or exaggerated the most.
If your Pastor talks too much about, or overcites his military record, I would bet you a hundred bucks right now that there is “something wrong with the story.”
Stealth would be a worthwhile addition to their arsenal.
Yes, the shiny, gold delts and Mexican-wrestler mask kind of give him away.
Megan E. Duskey, 23, of the 3600 block of Melanie Lane in south suburban Crete, fell to her death at a Halloween party on Friday night after attempting to slide down a railing at the mezzanine level of the Palmer House Hotel, and instead falling to the basement level at about 10:30 p.m., police said to the Chicago Sun-Times. Sources said that Duskey was dressed in a black and yellow costume. Police said that she suffered head trauma and was pronounced dead on the scene. An autopsy is scheduled for later Sunday. Central District police are still investigating.
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