{"id":6024,"date":"2011-01-05T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2011-01-05T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T22:34:07","slug":"real-life-superhero-walks-streets-fighting-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/01\/05\/real-life-superhero-walks-streets-fighting-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Superhero Walks Streets, Fighting Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted: http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/news\/26363364\/detail.html<\/a>
\nPosted: 8:07 am PST January 4, 2011Updated: 12:08 pm PST January 4, 2011<\/p>\n

LYNNWOOD, Wash. — <\/strong>Posted: 8:07 am PST January 4, 2011Updated: 12:08 pm PST January 4, 2011
\nLYNNWOOD, Wash. — A local man said he came within seconds of having his car broken into, and perhaps stolen, until a real-life \u201csuperhero” came to his aid, wearing tights, a mask and a skin-tight super suit.The encounter started in Lynnwood Sunday evening when a man, who asked to be identified only as Dan, was walking back to his car in a parking lot when he saw a man with a metal strip trying to pry open his car.\u201cHe started sticking it down between the window and the rubber strip,\u201d said Dan.Dan began to call 911, but said help arrived before he even finished dialing.
\n\u201cFrom the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away,\u201d said Dan.
\nWhat Dan didn\u2019t know is that just about every night, an anonymous Seattle man strolls into a comic store, enters a hidden back room and emerges transformed.
\nSLIDESHOW: Superhero On The Streets
\nKIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Monique Ming Laven met him.
\n\u201cMy name is Phoenix Jones,\u201d said the man.
\nThe man is the hero Dan\u2019s been trying to tell his friends about.
\n\u201cPeople are saying, \u2018No way, dude, you were probably drunk,\u2019\u201d said Dan.
\nBut 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.
\nOn Monday night, the fully-clad superhero and Dan met.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s crazy. Nice to meet you, brother. Nice to meet you. That\u2019s insane,\u201d said Dan, who finally got a close-up look at his savior.
\n\u201cPhoenix\u201d explained his whole super suit, including bullet-proof vest and stab plates, to Dan.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s a Taser night stick. And I have Mace slash tear gas over here,\u201d said Phoenix.
\nThen it was time for Phoenix to get back out on the streets, maybe not quite a super man, but an extraordinary one.
\n\u201cSo when I walk into a neighborhood, criminals leave because they see the suit,\u201d said Phoenix. \u201cI symbolize that the average person doesn’t have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing.\u201d
\nPhoenix said since he started his crime-fighting crusade nine months ago, he’s been stabbed, and had a gun pulled on him a few times, but received no serious injuries.
\nUnfortunately, he didn’t catch up with the man who was breaking into Dan’s car.<\/p>\n

More on Phoenix Jones and the Rain City Superhero Movement:<\/h3>\n