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15 Nov 2013, 11:00 pm

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-1116 ... z2kmH3rtp2

This 5 year old boy (with leukemia in remission) wished to be Batman.

So Make a Wish foundation gave him a costume, a car to get driven around in and make San Fran into Gotham City.

So he gets to travel around being Batman.

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15 Nov 2013, 11:58 pm

Rad!

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16 Nov 2013, 12:43 am

I saw it on TV. Very touching.

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16 Nov 2013, 4:38 pm

Batkid, from his hometown newspaper, the Klamath Falls, Oregon, Herald and News (the boy lives in a tiny town a few miles south of the OR/CA border, Klamath Falls is the nearest big town):

http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/local ... f887a.html

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/B ... 985651.php

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17 Nov 2013, 3:26 am

Wouldn't it be nice if every kid could have just one wish come true?

I hope his day was everything he wanted.

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28 Nov 2013, 9:25 am

Sylkat wrote:

Wouldn't it be nice if every kid could have just one wish come true?

I hope his day was everything he wanted.

Sylkat

I agree with all that and more.

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29 Nov 2013, 2:14 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batkid

I saw another news item regarding Batkid. Apparently Make a Wish made an offer when Miles was 18months old. But his parents said that Miles should wait because they wanted him to remember it and really enjoy it.

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02 Dec 2013, 5:12 pm

Was it really wrong of me to hope that this story would be a follow-up to the below?

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02 Dec 2013, 5:43 pm

Suppose the kid has a Remission? Will he have to give back the costume?

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06 Dec 2013, 6:47 pm

It was cute until the 6 yr old dressed up like Bane came by and broke his back...

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10 Dec 2013, 7:44 pm

Right on!

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20 Jan 2014, 11:04 am

<* BUMP *>

Latest update: Philanthropists pay bills for SF 'Batkid' fantasy.

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The city of San Francisco is being rescued from paying the cost of staging the "Batkid" fantasy that captured the nation's imagination. Philanthropists John and Marcia Goldman are picking up the city's $105,000 tab for allowing Miles Scott, a 5-year-old Northern California boy with leukemia, to fight villains and rescue a damsel in distress as a caped crusader on Nov. 15 ... (more)

TOTALLY Rad!

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02 Feb 2014, 12:16 pm

AutisticMillionaire wrote:

It was cute until the 6 yr old dressed up like Bane came by and broke his back...

Batkid totally pwn3d. The new Bane looks like a complete d-bag in the Hot-Topic-Emo-scene-wannabe-trend-following-monkey sort of way.

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