Batkid Saves Gotham!

[IndyJones]

If anyone has missed today's Make-A-Wish Foundation's wish fulfillment today in San Francisco, go check out this link from Buzzfeed detailing the day's events.

Miles is a 5 year old with leukemia currently in remission, but today the Make-A-Wish Foundation teamed up with thousands of San Franciscans to allow Miles to fight crime on the streets of "Gotham" while dressed up as Batman.

Here he is heading out to save a damsel in distress.



Go to Buzzfeed to see some more adorableness.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I saw this earlier today on Facebook. It is so sweet.

 

[Showdown]

cool

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Stories like this always touch me.

I loved seeing the cast of Arrow make a short video in which they realize they have no crime to fight, because Batkid has stopped them all.

 

[Orac Zen]

Brilliant.

 

[Australis]

Yeah, nice, heartwarming story.

 

[bbailey861]

This is the first thing I saw on the news this morning. Great stuff!!

 

[SmoothieX]

What is the kid's prognosis? Is he expected to live long?

 

[publiusr]

It's in remission. So rare to have ones dream fulfilled. Now if folks could work together like that every day.

I had a strange Doctor Who dream, where I was being congratulated for picking a certain vote for favorite actor--and chose no one in particlar. Tom Baker and others were cheering me--even though he knew he was everyones favorite. I've never had a dream with that level of force before...and it was that day I later learned of this story--as if I had tapped into the joy there somehow.

And then my more morbid side stepped in.

Later, a vision of me dressed up as St. Germain walked before an audience, offering a toast to batkid, wondering aloud what would become of him.

Would this become a fond memory, would he remember it all all? Would it spoil him?--Or worse, would it haunt him...make him sad later, as we saw towards the end of the movie SAVING PRIVATE RYAN when Tom Hanks' character uttered the two cruel but necessary words:

Earn this--

 

[sojourner]

Arrow weighs in:
http://www.greenarrowtv.com/the-arrow-cast-salutes-batkid/15847

 

[Kira's Mom]

The story is sweet, but the best part is that the kid is in remission.

 

[Gruß vom Krampus]

This is one of those instances that helps reaffirm my faith in humanity. Hooray for San Francisco for making a little boy's fantasy come to life!

 

[Starkers]

The BBC showed this saturday I think, absolutely fantastic. Nice to have good news for a change