{"id":6086,"date":"2011-01-06T17:46:54","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=6086"},"modified":"2011-01-06T17:46:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T01:46:54","slug":"the-real-life-kick-ass-character-self-styled-superhero-phoenix-jones-chases-off-would-be-car-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/01\/06\/the-real-life-kick-ass-character-self-styled-superhero-phoenix-jones-chases-off-would-be-car-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"The real-life Kick Ass character: Self-styled superhero 'Phoenix Jones' chases off would-be car thief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1344136\/Phoenix-Jones-Real-life-superhero-chases-car-thief-Seattle.html<\/a>
\n. . . and the bullet-proof crimebuster isn’t alone – there are NINE of them patrolling streets!<\/strong>
\nBy Daily Mail Reporter
\nLast updated at 3:29 PM on 6th January 2011
\nResidents of Lynnwood in Washington can sleep safely in their beds, knowing that their streets are being protected by… Phoenix Jones.
\nThe city, just north of Seattle, is part of the patrolling zone of a self-styled superhero who roams the streets in search of injustice.
\nIn a real-life version of the 2010 film Kick-Ass – where a mild-mannered school student transforms himself into a masked crusader – Phoenix Jones has taken the law into his own gloved hands and is spending his time cleaning up the suburban streets.
\nRumours of the costumed crimefighter – and others like him – began to surface as residents spoke of unconfirmed sightings around the streets.
\nThen a Lynwood local, who only wanted to be identified as Dan, had a first-hand meeting.
\nDan said he was returning to a parking lot on Sunday evening when he spotted a ‘bad guy’ trying to break in to his car with a piece of metal.
\nDan said: ‘He started sticking it down between the window and the rubber strip.’
\nDan said he started dialling 911 but – before he could even finish dialling the three-digit number – help arrived in the most unlikely form.
\nHe said: ‘This guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away.’
\nDan admitted that he had not heard of the strange avenger working Lynnwood’s streets, and also admitted that he didn’t want to report the sighting because his friends told him he must have been drunk.
\nBut he is not the only one to have seen a real-life superhero – the comic-book vigilantes are known to police.
\nA Seattle Police Department spokesman confirmed that there is a band of do-gooders who are known as the Rain City Superhero Movement, and have identified at least nine members.
\nPhoenix Jones, who came to Dan’s aid, is just one member of the group. He is joined by – believe it or not – Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88 and Penelope.
\nIn what could turn out to be the rise of the obligatory comic-book super villain, police have been told by the group to disregard Captain Ozone or Knight Owl – because they are not part of the movement.
\nAnd don’t get your hopes up about the gadget-bristling Jonesmobile either.
\nPolice say Phoenix is driven around in a Kia – by a female sidekick who doesn’t get out of the vehicle.
\nLocal KIRO 7 TV reporter Monique Ming Laven met Phoenix Jones, and there’s more to the anonymous crimefighter than just a snazzy pair of tights.
\nHis suit incorporates a bulletproof vest, trauma plating on his arms and legs and other sensitive areas.
\nHis utility belt, to borrow a phrase from fellow crimefighter Batman, includes a Taser, Mace and tear gas.
\nPhoenix said: ‘\u201cWhen I walk into a neighbourhood, criminals leave because they see the suit.
\n‘I symbolize that the average person doesn’t have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing.’
\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.
\nPolice department spokesman Jeff Kappel said: ‘There’s nothing wrong with citizens getting involved with the criminal justice process – as long as they follow it all the way through.
\nHe said police would prefer that people call 911 and be good witnesses, rather than getting involved personally and risk injury or death.
\nPhoenix Jones agreed, saying that crimefighting wasn’t for the weak-hearted.
\nHe said: ‘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.’<\/p>\n

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