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."

Darmok and Jalad at Seattle

[alphatel]

Phoenix, his eyes closed. Phoenix, when the walls fell.

Walter Kovacs responds:

[orphiuchus]

Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say.

Re:Darmok and Jalad at Seattle

[Anonymous Coward]

>If someone is going to take that punishment it should be the guy in body armor,' he said."

His eyes wide open!

Re:Ironically or maybe sadly

[Surt]

I think you mean Tony Boloney.

what's good for Wall street is good for America!

[Thud457]

ok, let's get the facts straight, these uppity women were out disturbing the peace. And even worse, they were out in public not escorted by a older male relative. And they were dressed like sluts.