Real-Life Superheroes: One Night in Bangkok

When an LP gas truck was hijacked by some trouble-makers in Bangkok, Thailand, some of the locals took to the streets to confront the hijackers...making for a very tense situation. Suddenly, out of the blue, someone dressed as Batman randomly appeared and, according to news reports...

"...brought much-needed laughs and amusement to the stressed-out residents and protesters alike. The tension in the scene was lowered significantly.The Batman then climbed on the back of the gas truck and yelled, “Batman is here!”, distracting the protesters in the area and brighten up the atmosphere."

As it turned out, while "Batman" distracted the crowd, a government official snuck onto the gas truck and drove it away to safety.  Batman, realizing his work was done, rode off on the back of a water truck that had been parked nearby in case a fire broke out.  Considerably less dramatic than Batman's comic book exploits, but strangely compelling in that wacky, Third World kind of way.

Here's a local news report.  No clue as to what any commentators were talking about, other than the word "Batman" every couple of seconds.

  

Considerably less dramatic than Batman's comic book exploits, but strangely compelling in a wacky, Third World kind of way.

Comments

[meng]

much as the description says, the newscasters are saying that someone dressed as Batman emerged from the crowd with a video camera and ran towards the gas truck and jumped on it, yelling "Batman is here!", and that people in the crowd were amused/distracted. and i'm not 100% sure what the context is but while everyone was distracted by "Batman", a firefighter got in and drove the gas truck away. they also mention that this "Batman" really is a hero as is the guy who drove the gas truck off.

[Grumpy]

Instead of infringing on Batman's trademark, the hero could have dressed himself as Flying Pig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8b9EckGPx0