Post by Selina Kyle on Jul 5, 2010 3:53:10 GMT -5
Barney T Rubble certainly had no idea what he was getting into when he walked outside to film a rare meteorshower in the sky last night. What he got instead is one of the most sought after news videos in Gotham history. The photo above, a still from that video, appears to depict the Batman in a mid-air embrace with a similarly masked woman. The woman, says Barney, had been attempting to scale the Gotham City Police Department when she fell and, as shown in his video, was saved by the Bat. No one has yet discovered what the two were doing at the Police Department. Nothing has been reported stolen or damaged in the building. But the knowledge that the infamous Batman may in fact have a partner has incited the imaginations of Gothamites.
"He told me to stop what I was doing," says one man, arrested last year for impersonating the Bat. Fred Stone was ticketed for wearing a bat mask and hockey gear and beating up a burglar who threatened a nearby diner. Batman apparently broke up the robbery, and set Gene down for his intrusion. "He said it was too dangerous. So if he's helping this one out, she must be different, right?"
One noticeable difference is that this one, unlike so many other imitators, is a female. "Can you blame him?" laughs Arnold Slate of the pizzaria across the street from the GCPD headquarters. "She's a babe! I'd let her run around with me, too!"
If this is true, however, Gotham seems torn as to how to receive it. Some continue their determined defense of the Bat, claiming his continued innocent in spite of Commissioner Gordon's continued insistence that he is a wanted criminal. "It's about time he had help! We should all be doing out part," says Wilma Flint, who was in GCPD when we were there to report a stolen car.
"We have enough hoodlums in this town!" responds Betty Bedrock, who believes like so many others in Gotham that Batman is nothing short of a common criminal. "If he's training another like him, that can only be bad news!"
But the authorities on bad guys in Gotham seems uncertain how to take the footage. "Our detectives are looking into it," says Commissioner Gordon, who politely returned our call on the matter. "We have no conclusive statement about it at present, but we are doing all we can do bring the Bat and any of his accomplices to justice."
In the meantime, Gotham residents will simply have to satisfy themselves with a rare shot of the man himself in action, along with what appears to be his brand new sidekick.
"He told me to stop what I was doing," says one man, arrested last year for impersonating the Bat. Fred Stone was ticketed for wearing a bat mask and hockey gear and beating up a burglar who threatened a nearby diner. Batman apparently broke up the robbery, and set Gene down for his intrusion. "He said it was too dangerous. So if he's helping this one out, she must be different, right?"
One noticeable difference is that this one, unlike so many other imitators, is a female. "Can you blame him?" laughs Arnold Slate of the pizzaria across the street from the GCPD headquarters. "She's a babe! I'd let her run around with me, too!"
If this is true, however, Gotham seems torn as to how to receive it. Some continue their determined defense of the Bat, claiming his continued innocent in spite of Commissioner Gordon's continued insistence that he is a wanted criminal. "It's about time he had help! We should all be doing out part," says Wilma Flint, who was in GCPD when we were there to report a stolen car.
"We have enough hoodlums in this town!" responds Betty Bedrock, who believes like so many others in Gotham that Batman is nothing short of a common criminal. "If he's training another like him, that can only be bad news!"
But the authorities on bad guys in Gotham seems uncertain how to take the footage. "Our detectives are looking into it," says Commissioner Gordon, who politely returned our call on the matter. "We have no conclusive statement about it at present, but we are doing all we can do bring the Bat and any of his accomplices to justice."
In the meantime, Gotham residents will simply have to satisfy themselves with a rare shot of the man himself in action, along with what appears to be his brand new sidekick.
