lovely story in san fracisco breaking.

Gmol · 16-11-2013 12:19AM #1

Over 12000 volunteers have turned the city into Gotham for a young boy in remission from leukemia. He will travel arround the city solving crime as Batkid

It's amazing so many have got involved

Thrill · 16-11-2013 12:22AM

A link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24964100

Thousands of people in San Francisco have turned out to help a boy recovering from leukaemia fulfil his wish to be Batman for a day.

Miles Scott, five, participated in events across the city including fighting mock crimes and receiving an honour from the mayor.

Make-a-Wish Foundation, which organised the event, received pledges from more than 10,000 people to lend a hand

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 16-11-2013 12:30AM

I'm sick to the back teeth of people being nice to sick children. It's nauseating at this stage. Back in my day you'd be beaten with a stick until you got better and if you didn't get better you were ground up and used as fertiliser. Never did anybody any harm if you ask me.

_Kaiser_ · 16-11-2013 12:32AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I'm sick to the back teeth of people being nice to sick children. It's nauseating at this stage. Back in my day you'd be beaten with a stick until you got better and if you didn't get better you were ground up and used as fertiliser. Never did anybody any harm if you ask me.

Fail.. AH or not.

Fair play to everyone involved - BreakingNews link

PinkFly · 16-11-2013 12:33AM

That's so cool fair play to them

LETHAL LADY · 16-11-2013 12:34AM

Reading that made me teary-eyed, can you imagine being that kid.

El Guapo! · 16-11-2013 12:35AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I'm sick to the back teeth of people being nice to sick children. It's nauseating at this stage. Back in my day you'd be beaten with a stick until you got better and if you didn't get better you were ground up and used as fertiliser. Never did anybody any harm if you ask me.

.....okaaaayyyyy......

bluefinger · 16-11-2013 12:36AM

the picture of the little guy smiling would bring a tear to a glass eye.

Zen65 · 16-11-2013 12:40AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I'm sick to the back teeth of people being nice to sick children. It's nauseating at this stage. Back in my day you'd be beaten with a stick until you got better and if you didn't get better you were ground up and used as fertiliser. Never did anybody any harm if you ask me.

Ahh the classic Monty Python-esque joke. Of course what made the joke funny was that it was adults talking about their (exaggerated) experiences growing up. I don't think Cleese and Palin would have stooped to making the joke in the context of a story about a young boy with leukaemia.

But hey, each to their own!

16-11-2013 12:55AM

absolutely brilliant!

amazing a whole city can get together and do something like this.
the power of the internet:)

Agent Coulson · 16-11-2013 12:58AM

That should be the lead story on the news broadcasts all over the world tonight and tomorrow.

The world needs good stories like that.

The Black Oil · 16-11-2013 01:00AM

From Twitter

beertons · 16-11-2013 01:02AM

Deadly. And his bro as robin, class.

magick · 16-11-2013 01:22AM

Ill be looking for the Batman Symbol tonight

FREDNISMO · 16-11-2013 01:30AM

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

I'm sick to the back teeth of people being nice to sick children. It's nauseating at this stage. Back in my day you'd be beaten with a stick until you got better and if you didn't get better you were ground up and used as fertiliser. Never did anybody any harm if you ask me.

Hope it never comes to your doostep

Karl Stein · 16-11-2013 01:31AM

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Fail..

I thought it was quite funny myself.

It's a bit like the one where the guy who saved someone's life was told 'you only postponed his death'.

ringadingding · 16-11-2013 01:32AM

Damn onions

timthumbni · 16-11-2013 01:33AM

Pretty cool. Hope the wee man had a great time.

Frank Bullitt · 16-11-2013 01:35AM

Even Obama sending him a message, amazing.

Witcher · 16-11-2013 01:37AM

Saw it earlier and was smiling watching him going around with the adult Batman, then I thought about all the poor child has been through so young. Life can be so hard sometimes it really can.

It's great that he's recovering though.

Karl Stein · 16-11-2013 01:42AM

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Fail.. AH or not.

Zen65 wrote: »

I don't think Cleese and Palin would have stooped to making the joke in the context of a story about a young boy with leukaemia.

FREDNISMO wrote: »

Hope it never comes to your doostep

Good old self-righteous indignation.

It's not so much that the self-righteously indignant care about what it is they're getting self-righteously indignant about as much as they care about appearing morally superior and smugly virtuous.

LETHAL LADY · 16-11-2013 01:44AM

Carlos Roca wrote: »

Good old self-righteous indignation.

It's not so much that the self-righteously indignant care about what it is they're getting self-righteously indignant about as much as they care about appearing morally superior and smugly virtuous.

Carlos heart of stone.:P

Mint Aero · 16-11-2013 01:52AM

I've a dopey smile on me now and the kids happy

Karl Stein · 16-11-2013 01:54AM

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

Carlos heart of stone.:P

Just givin' ma honest opinion is all Ma'am.

Tzar Chasm · 16-11-2013 02:50AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZw2Z7LJqxw

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mZw2Z7LJqxw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmZw2Z7LJqxw#

The Dom · 16-11-2013 03:07AM

Zen65 wrote: »

I don't think Cleese and Palin would have stooped to making the joke in the context of a story about a young boy with leukaemia.

As long as the boy himself was not being made fun of, of course they would.

When one of Python died from cancer a few years back, Cleese in a eulogy from the alter said:

Good riddance to him the freeloading bastard.

The joke being how ludicrous it would be for someone to say such a thing.

It's the context being so serious which makes it funny.

Seaneh · 16-11-2013 03:44AM

Read about this earlier tonight and though it was awesome and the say the videos and thought it was even more awesome.

Well dome Make a Wish and the City of San Francisco.

BillyMitchel · 16-11-2013 04:30AM

Really nice story to put Billy asleep. Also reminded me of this:

http://www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk/p/i-cant-keep-calm-because-im-batman/

Billy86 · 16-11-2013 05:13AM

Love how they set this up - told him he was going to SF to buy a Batman costume, then flooded the news with the chief of police, politicians, etc giving cries for help:

Can't find the chief of police one, but what a way to make it 'real' for him! They got some guy to play Batman with the Miles as 'Bat Kid' and got some charitable rich guy to let them use his Lamborghini and decorate it as a Batmobile for the day.

Twelve thousand volunteers means TWELVE THOUSAND VOLUNTEERS!

Here's a link to a video someone took from their office that gives you an idea of the full scale of the it.

How awesome is that!! Surely they won't be able to top it, but that's got to be one of the coolest things a kid has got for a Make-a-Wish ever right?

Well there's more! This is at the 40,000 seater stadium the San Francisco 49ers (NFL) and Giants (baseball) play at:

...and I can't find a video, but he and Batman went inside to defeat the Penguin and rescue the Giants team mascot inside the stadium. How could this possibly get any cooler and more uplifting?

Oh, right...

One last smile? After three years, his cancer has just gone into remission. No guarantees, but there's a good chance this isn't a 'send off'.

Killer Wench · 16-11-2013 05:21AM

A positive and lovely story coming from the US. 2 pages.

A shooting, any type of shooting, and it would have one hundred fiddy pages by now.

Howard Juneau · 16-11-2013 05:26AM

Killer Wench wrote: »

A positive and lovely story coming from the US. 2 pages.

A shooting, any type of shooting, and it would have one hundred fiddy pages by now.

Maybe batkid can shoot somebody & you'll get the best of both worlds!

lovely story in san fracisco breaking.

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