Real-life superhero ‘Phoenix Jones’ in super trouble, facing drug charges
A local ‘superhero’ known in the past for serving justice and helping the police combat crime in downtown Seattle is now in super trouble with the law.
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While Phoenix Jones Wants Your Money For Himself, Rex Velvet Makes Dreams Come True
Original Blog: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2012/07/rex_velvet_making_wishes_come.php It’s a crazy world we live in. On one hand, you’ve got Seattle real-life superhero Phoenix Jones, caught up in yet another drama, with some questioning the motives behind his efforts to get the public to pay …
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Seattle 'superhero' avoids charges in crime-fighting fracas
Phoenix Jones, a self-proclaimed superhero who roams Seattle streets to fight crime will not be charged for pepper-spraying a group he said he thought was fighting, The Seattle Timesreports.
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By day, they are regular folks with full-time jobs, bills to pay and mouths to feed.
By night, they are masked and sometimes-caped crusaders, who troll the streets looking to help the needy, stamp out crime and fulfil their comic-book inspired dreams.
But lately the mostly anonymous members of the so-called Real Life Superheroes movement (known as RLSH) in Canada and the U.S. have been feeling a bit of angst and more than a little misunderstood after a bout of bad publicity.
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Nichols is more focused on helping those who can’t help themselves. He said he has patrolled the streets and has even broken up a few muggings in his patrols.
DSHS: Phoenix Jones could someday work with kids again
Gau says Fodor’s DSHS contract came up for renewal in October, and the arrest appeared on his background check, so his contract was not extended.
State keeping 'superhero' away from disabled kids
But Fodor could still be charged with assault, and a spokeswoman for City Attorney Pete Holmes, Kimberly Mills, said this week that a final decision has not been made. People who are convicted of assault are prohibited by law from jobs working with vulnerable adults and children.
Phoenix Jones Loses Job, Barred From Working With Children
Jones says that because of his arrest, he’s on “a list” that prohibits him from working with children, because he has “a history of interjecting myself into situations that are dangerous.”