San Francisco To Turn Into Gotham City For Five Year Old's Make A Wish Dream

[Initech]

Miles, from northern California, had only one desire when the Make-a-Wish foundation came knocking - he wanted to be Batkid.

Now, thanks for more than 10,000 people his wish is to become a reality.

On Friday, Miles will rescue a damsel in distress, capture the Riddler in a bank vault, chase the Penguin around town and then receive the key to the city from a grateful mayor and police chief.

DC Comics is also thinking of writing a special comic book featuring Batkid and the Dark Knight trilogy composer Hans Zimmer has offered to write Batkid his own theme song.

Make-a-Wish rarely asks the public to get involved in helping to grant the wishes of the sick kids they work with.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyle/san-francisco-to-help-turn-miles-5-into-batman-with-make-a-wish-foundation/story-fnixw28f-1226759385710

I don't know where I saw this in some other thread but it holds true - "America, some times you want to punch it in the face, and other times you have nothing but admiration". This is a great story, if you're in SF, go participate.

[CFLDem]

1. Sometimes people are just awesome. n/t

[rudolph the red]

2. Yep, great work by everyone involved to make this happen.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. At first, I thought they were going to make it look like Gotham City.

I've always loved the architecture of Gotham City. I'd so love to see a city with that look. You'd think there would be a comic theme park somewhere.