Why would they be afraid of Batman? Or maybe they meant that the presence of Batman suggested the also-presence of some kind of supervillain. That would indeed warrant them bringing in the authorities, to help him catch said criminal mastermind.
Batman/Spider-Man - In the first one the Joker and Carnage are subject to a new treatment that uses a chip to remove violent impulses, but Carnage's symbiote cures him and he removes the Joker's (Although the two don't get along due to the Joker favouring theatrical murder while Carnage prefers numbers). In the second, the two face Ra's Al Ghul and the Kingpin, but Kingpin betrays Ra's and contacts the two heroes to save New York.
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP) -- An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing after pilots heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit.
The airline blamed the emergency landing of the Tokyo-Dallas flight with 202 passengers on a stowaway squirrel.
"You do not want a varmint up in the wiring areas and what-have-you on an airplane. You don't want anything up there," said John Hotard, spokesman for the Fort Worth, Texas-based airline.
He said pilots feared the animal would chew through wiring or cause other problems.
"So, as a precaution, we diverted," Hotard said.
Once on the ground late Friday, the Boeing 777's human passengers were put up in hotel rooms and later rebooked on other flights.
State and federal agriculture and wildlife officials boarded the plane, set traps and captured the eastern gray squirrel.
Hotard said the plane had flown to Tokyo from New York before the Dallas flight.
Honolulu, however, proved to be the squirrel's final destination. Fearing it might have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent killed.
"Fearing it might have been carrying rabies, authorities had the rodent killed."
What the fuck!? They couldn't just hold it for observation for a week? They don't even have to spend any money, it'd probably be cheaper than what it cost to kill it.
It's a friggin' squirrel. I'm surprised they even made it sound like they caught it in a live trap. You can hunt those around here. They are quite edible.
NEW YORK -- Geneaologists have found that civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The Daily News said professional genealogists, working at the newspaper's behest, recently uncovered the ancestral ties between one of the nation's best known black leaders and a man who was once a prominent defender of segregation.
''I have always wondered what was the background of my family,'' the newspaper quoted Sharpton as saying. ''But nothing _ nothing _ could prepare me for this.''
''It's chilling. It's amazing.''
Sharpton's office said Sunday morning that he would not comment until a news conference planned for later in the day.
Some of Thurmond's relatives said the connection also came as a surprise to them. A niece, Ellen Senter, said she would speak with Sharpton if he were interested.
''I doubt you can find many native South Carolinians today whose family, if you traced them back far enough, didn't own slaves,'' said Senter, 61, of Columbia, S.C. She added: ''And it is wonderful that (Sharpton) was able to become what he is in spite of what his forefather was.''
One of the late senator's sons, Paul Thurmond, and a nephew, Barry Bishop, declined comment, the Daily News said.
According to the newspaper, the genealogists found documents establishing that Sharpton's great-grandfather, Coleman Sharpton, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was Strom Thurmond's great-great-grandfather. Coleman Sharpton was later freed.
The newspaper said the lead researcher was Megan Smolenyak, the chief family historian for Ancestry.com and an author of several published books on genealogy. Another researcher on the project was Tony Burroughs, who teaches genealogy at Chicago State University.
Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, was once considered a symbol of segregation. During his 1948 bid for president, he promised to preserve racial segregation. In 1957, he filibustered for more than 24 hours against a civil rights bill.
But Thurmond was seen as softening his stance later in his long life. He died in 2003, at 100. The longest-serving senator in history, he was originally a Democrat but became a Republican in 1964.
His children have acknowledged that Thurmond fathered a biracial daughter. Essie Mae Washington-Williams' mother was a housekeeper in the home of Thurmond's parents.
PUEBLO, Colorado (AP) -- Three people were arrested on charges of swapping a 5-month-old boy for a down payment on a used Dodge Intrepid and cash, police said Tuesday.
Nicole Uribe, 23, is accused of trading the baby to Jose-Juan Lerma, 47, and his wife, Irene, 27, in exchange for the down payment and an unspecified amount of cash.
All were arrested on suspicion of felony trafficking in children and were being held at the Pueblo jail under $50,000 bail each.
The baby was placed in a foster home, Police Sgt. Brett Wilson said. Wilson said he could not speculate on the motives for the alleged deal.
He said police found the child and arrested Uribe within hours of getting a tip on Monday. The Lermas were arrested on Tuesday.
Wilson said all three were Mexican nationals and federal officials had been asked to investigate their immigration status.
Babies are a liability, not an asset. They generate no money for the recipient; rather there are constant overhead and labor costs required for baby maintenance. Whoever accepted the baby as a down payment clearly has no concept of the value of money.
"She's a beauty, ain't she? Oh yeah, latest model too. You'll get years of service out of her!"
"...But why do you want to give us your baby for our car?"
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EDIT: Okay, have hotlinking protection you stupid picture!
Also, since you guys all like Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs._DC
That's where you're wrong again, mario! You didn't go down to the "Other Crossovers" section, did you?
What the fuck!? They couldn't just hold it for observation for a week? They don't even have to spend any money, it'd probably be cheaper than what it cost to kill it.
"RABIES!? GAH! KILL IT, KILL IT NOW!"
So I wouldn't be surprised if they just got some guy with boots to stomp on it.
(They dug it with shovels.)
Because he was heroically trying to save the girl!
also: The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Creators hold a press conference regarding their prank ad campaign.
Update on this case.
Babies are a liability, not an asset. They generate no money for the recipient; rather there are constant overhead and labor costs required for baby maintenance. Whoever accepted the baby as a down payment clearly has no concept of the value of money.
1 year old baby ONO"
I just want to know how that came up in the conversation, "We don't have the money, but we do have a child, purebred too"
"She's a beauty, ain't she? Oh yeah, latest model too. You'll get years of service out of her!"
"...But why do you want to give us your baby for our car?"