Courtesy Montgomery County Police Department
I saw the picture on Facebook of Batman getting pulled over on Route 29 in Maryland, so naturally I wanted to find out more.
What a touching story. This Batman really IS a superhero!
Police pulled a man over on Route 29 in Silver Spring last week because of a problem with his plates. This would not ordinarily make international news, but the car was a black Lamborghini, the license plate was the Batman symbol, and the driver was Batman, dressed head-to-toe in his full superhero uniform.
HOLY MOVING VIOLATION!
Jokers emerged instantaneously. “Let him do his job,” one commenter wrote. “Batman has expensive taste,” wrote another. Others had questions, such as: “Did they make him take off his mask?”
No, they did not. Even Montgomery County police honor a superhero code of conduct, just like Howard County officers who once helped him with a flat bat tire. Batman told officers his real name was not Bruce Wayne but Lenny B. Robinson, and that his real tags were in the car. (He was not ticketed then, but has been before for a heavy bat foot.)
Batman is a businessman from Baltimore County who visits sick children in hospitals, handing out Batman paraphernalia to up-and-coming superheros who first need to beat cancer and other wretched diseases.
via Who is the Route 29 Batman? This guy. – Rosenwald, Md. – The Washington Post.