A man who wears a Mr. Incredible costume to entertain tourists on Hollywood Boulevard was convicted Tuesday of punching and body-slamming a Batgirl during a fight last year.
Muhammet Bilik, 35, was convicted of battery and sentenced to a day in jail, three years probation, 20 days of Caltrans work and 36 anger-management classes in connection with the Oct. 22 attack in front of TCL Chinese Theatre that was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube.
This was just the latest in a series of Hollywood Boulevard cartoon characters behaving badly.
Consider:
2005: Elmo, another Mr. Incredible and the villain from the “Scream” movies were arrested on suspicion of aggressive panhandling.
2007: LAPD officers arrested Chewbacca on suspicion of head-butting a tour guide. (Headline: “The Force Is All Over Chewbacca.”)
2009: Batman and Robin sought the help of police to deal with run-ins with CD vendors.
2011: SpongeBob SquarePants was questioned by officers after an altercation with two women.
2013: Two Captain Americas and a Spider-Man got into a brawl near the Hollywood & Highland shopping complex.
The behavior was so bad a few years ago that officials held a “superhero summit” to lay down the law. The characters have become an integral part of the Hollywood Boulevard experience, posing for pictures with tourists and providing sidewalk entertainment.
You just can't get decent superheroes these days
You just can't get decent superheroes these days
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: You just can't get decent superheroes these days
Proves something I've long believed...
Wookies make good bouncers...
Mr. Imbecile is lucky he didn't take on the real Batgirl...
She'd have nailed him with a well placed high kick:
Wookies make good bouncers...
Mr. Imbecile is lucky he didn't take on the real Batgirl...
She'd have nailed him with a well placed high kick:
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: You just can't get decent superheroes these days
Why's the wookie getting credit? The Incredible dude slammed the Batgirl way after Chewie had given up.
Waldo I get. Freddy Kruger I get. But what on earth was the black geezer in the blue suit and the white wellies supposed to be?
He looked like a worker in a Bloemfontein slaghuis
Waldo I get. Freddy Kruger I get. But what on earth was the black geezer in the blue suit and the white wellies supposed to be?
He looked like a worker in a Bloemfontein slaghuis
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Re: You just can't get decent superheroes these days
When it comes to superheroes.
You just need the right one(s)
Calling on the mothership.
yrs,
rubato
You just need the right one(s)
Calling on the mothership.
yrs,
rubato
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Re: You just can't get decent superheroes these days
I heard times square has (had?) some similar problems with the characters.
Can't we all get along?
Can't we all get along?