Friday, May 18th, 2012
Mark Hodge explores the most exiting thing to come out of Seattle since Starbucks and Foxy Knoxy.
IN TIMES of economic turmoil people tend to distract themselves with the absurd and outright ridiculous.
And, wowdewow is no different. Meet Phoenix Jones, a comic book nerd who couldn’t fight his way out of his own mask.
Is it a berk? Is it a plank? Is it a twit?
Jones is a self-styled superhero who prowls the streets of Seattle with a can of pepper-spray in one hand and nothing but a shadow puppet in the other.
He was at the centre of controversy and much hilarity when he videotaped himself pepper spraying four people who were having an argument/fight whilst out on the town – Jones was subsequently arrested for his actions.
Fodor’s guide to stupidity
Now, Batman’s reject nephew has revealed his true identity as Benjamin Fodor, a 23-year-old “mix martial arts fighter”.
He claims that he was simply stopping an assault by assualting four other people – what’s wrong with that?
I mean he could be out actually solving crime, but that would make him no different from all other superheroes. Fodor or Phoenix is just a young man in a mask who is content on interjecting himself into situations, escalating minor scuffles and wasting police time. Thank heavens.
Mark Hodge is a wowdewow editor-superhero who likes nothing better than to slip into lycra and go for a curry.
Does the world need this idiotic vigilante or it is a necessary fantasy of the Great American Dream – the superhero who protects the “little man”? Have your say in Readers Comments.
Here is the idiot at work…
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