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Times Square Spidey “hits ma”
New York Post ^
| 2:30 AM, February 11, 2013
| Larry Celona, Kathryn Cusma
Posted on 02/12/2013 1:59:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
A Times Square Spider-Man yesterday allegedly slugged a woman who balked at tipping him after he posed for pictures with her kids, according to police.
Philip Williams, 35, was dressed as the web-slinging superhero when he was arrested for punching the 44-year-old woman at about 3:10 p.m., police said.
Williams allegedly belted the mother after she wouldn’t pay him for posing with her two kids, causing the woman to storm off and get her husband. But she ended up targeting the wrong Spider-Man for revenge. …
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posted on
02/12/2013 1:59:54 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:04:47 PM PST
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:10:11 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: Olog-hai
Williams allegedly belted the mother after she wouldn’t pay him for posing with her two kids, causing the woman to storm off and get her husband. But she ended up targeting the wrong Spider-Man for revenge. Now we know why superheroes wear masks!
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:10:50 PM PST
by
Alex Murphy
("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
To: GeronL
Imagine if it were someone dressed as Deadpool who did this.
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:11:13 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Alex Murphy
A lot of the old ones didn’t (e.g. Superman, Wonder Woman, DC’s Captain Marvel, original Flash, Aquaman, etc).
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:14:30 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Witnesses said the woman’s husband then pounded the offending Spider-Man with a backpack before cops arrived to bust Spidey. Now that's funny. Good for hubby, though.
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:16:06 PM PST
by
Ken H
To: Olog-hai
For decades I scoffed at J. Jonah Jameson. I guess now I owe him an apology. Spidey is a menace!
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posted on
02/12/2013 2:40:34 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Olog-hai
So, Spiderman impersonators are no different from guys with squeegees at traffic lights.
Even superheroes are base, in the era of Obama.
“D.C.” comics, as it were.
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posted on
02/12/2013 3:23:30 PM PST
by
Chad N. Freud
(FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
To: Olog-hai
Next time she should have the kid’s photo taken with THE NAKED COWBOY. He don’t have a mask. ;-D
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posted on
02/12/2013 3:36:09 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
( Too old to cut the mustard any more.)
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