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Prince Batman — Prince William, Duke of Cambridge sits on the ‘Batpod’, which was used in the Batman films as Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry look on during the Inauguration Of Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden on April 26, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Paul Rogers - WPA Pool/Getty Images) — Click the photo for more.
Injustice: Gods Among Us aims to bring comic book movie experience to gaming
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Meet the BatBerry, an all-Canadian V8-powered Batmobile replica
Restoring something along the lines of a Ferrari 308 GTS, preparing a 1989 Mazda Miata for the racetrack or building a replica of a Lamborghini Countach are all viable choices for a weekend project car from the 1980s. Meanwhile, cars used in movies are usually limited to scale models sitting on a bookshelf or in a display cabinet.
Very rarely are the two combined, yet that is exactly what Tim Neil is doing in his spare time. By day, he works for BlackBerry and application developers to deliver apps for the company.
By night the diehard Subaru fanatic works on a project more suited for the streets of Gotham City rather than Toronto. He calls it the BatBerry — an exact replica of the Batmobile used in Tim Burton’s Batman films. (Nick Tragianis/National Post)
‘Petoskey Batman’ arrested after refusing to clear crime scene
PETOSKEY, Mich. — The search for a driver who fled an accident scene in northern Michigan over the weekend was apparently a job for a dog, not a bat.
State troopers arrested 33-year-old Mark Wayne Williams because they say he refused to leave them alone after he showed up Saturday night wearing a Batman outfit.
“He wouldn’t clear the scene, and we had a canine out there and he kept screwing up the scent,” State Police Sgt. Jeff Gorno told the Petoskey News-Review. “He said he wanted to help us look for the driver.” (AP Photo/Petoskey Department of Public Safety via Petoskey News-Review)
Sarah Boesveld asked Evangelos Tziallas, a University of Concordia doctoral candidate who presented at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont., to share his thoughts on the world’s most famous superheroes and what they mean in a post-9/11 society. Steve Murray illustrates.
Stop trolling for sex offenders: police to B.C.’s vigilante ‘superheroes’
A group of Chilliwack vigilantes have been warned again by police to stop luring and then exposing potential child sex offenders.
The youths made headlines last month with a series of “gotcha” videos posted to their “To Troll A Predator” Facebook page.
The four young men, aged 17 to 30, posed online as underage girls promising sexual encounters and then lured potential predators to public spaces and accosted them dressed as superheroes, such as Batman and The Flash.
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Teens staging online predator stings dressed as Batman draw RCMP attention
Mounties are investigating three B.C. teenage boys who posed as underage girls online, lured men to meet them for sex then confronted the accused sexual predators dressed as superheroes.
The shenanigans were videotaped and posted in recent weeks on YouTube, under the title To Troll a Predator.
One video features what the boys describe as a 44-year-old male who was seeking to perform oral sex on a 15-year-old girl. The video shows screen grabs of the online chat, dated Nov. 5, and the agreement to meet at a Tim Hortons.
The video then cuts to footage of a man dressed as Batman, speaking in a Cookie Monster-esque voice, claiming to be with B.C.’s “Chilliwack Police Department.”
“We have caught you talking to a 15-year-old girl online,” the caped crusader says to the nervous-sounding man.
Extremely Bad Advice: Playing With Liar
I have a coffee friend (we meet for coffee) who is in my opinion the PhD of total BS artists. This senior gent has the most annoying habit of pretty much never telling the truth, sometimes making his stories personal and offensive. An example: He is introduced to an old and dear friend of mine, someone he has never even passed on the street.
An hour later he will tell of the time that they enjoyed sexual congress together 16 years ago. The fact that until very recently she lived in Australia is not important. Steve, any advice beyond ‘walk away’?
STEP ONE Generally speaking, if someone chronically lies about their past accomplishments and adventures it’s because they’ve had none. What your friend is doing is clearly a cry for help. A cry for . adventure! So, show him some adventure! He won’t lie about the time he parachuted out of a helicopter if you just put a parachute on him and push him out of a helicopter! And he’ll be so busy telling people the story about how you and he robbed that bank that he won’t even bother making up any stories about a criminal past! Give him the life that he lies about and he’ll have no reason to lie, except maybe to cover his tracks and evade the police (don’t rob a bank).
Extremely Bad Advice: Adapt or Cry
Dear Steve, My friends keep getting mad when movie adaptations aren’t the same as the book. They propose the movie should say ‘inspired by’ the book instead of using the book’s name. I think they should figure out that it’s impossible to keep what they think is the essential part of the book since we’re all different people and movies are as similar to books as game shows are to political debates. Who’s totally wrong?
STEP ONE So let me get this straight. Your friends would be satisfied if, say, Game of Thrones was instead called Throne Games: Inspired by Game of Thrones? Somehow, I doubt it, chum. Should there be a board set up to review the changes from page to screen and give it a rating system? From “NB: nothing to do with the book” to “EL: every single #$@%ing line is on the screen. Happy, nerd?”
“Because he’s the hero Canada deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him because he can take it. Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight.”
(Source: fuckyeahtoronto)
