Have you ever wanted to climb skyscrapers like Spider-man, or beat on bad guys like Batman?  Chances are you have written off these delusions with common sense, unfortunately that is not the case for everyone.  With KICK-ASS due to be released tonight at midnight, I thought it be awesome to do an article about some real people who were crazy enough to wear tights in broad daylight.

Meet Alain Robert, AKA “French Spider-man.”  Robert has been known for more than one occasion to randomly start scaling a skyscraper to bring awareness to environmental issues.  In 2008 he caught the attention of the world by climbing 52-stories-tall New York Times building.  Armed with nothing more than a T-Shirt with a Web Site address(thesolutionissimple.org), exercise pants, and climbing shoes, he began climbing the 1,000 foot tall building.

Every news television station in New York was covering the event and thousands of people looked on as Robert ascended to the top.  Upon reaching the roof of the building he unraveled a banner that read “Global warming kills more people than 9/11 every week.”  Unfortunately the New York Police Department didn’t agree with his sentiment because he was immediately arrested.

Alain Robert has since become an international celebrity.  He has recently conquered National Bank of Abu Dhabi, the Sydney Opera House in Australia and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

Check out his website here.

Every good crazy deserves another.  Jason Hatch was just like every other man; until he was denied visitation right to his kids from his ex-wife.  In desperation he turned to Families Need Fathers.  The organization offers support and counseling, but he soon became frustrated and left the group because of their inactivity.  Not before long until he found the radical group Fathers 4 Justice (F4J), Dads who were just as crazy as he was and they also had an awesome secret headquarters as well.

As a grade 5 member, he signed up as someone who’d be willing to engage in direct action and risk arrest for the cause, and he did just that.  Evading royal guards dressed in a cheap Party City Batman costume.  He found his way to the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Britain’s most famous balcony strictly reserved for photo ops of the Queen and the royal family.   The stunt would get F4J global press coverage, though many media outlets ignored Batman’s message and focused on the potential threat to the Queen.  In the end Hatch’s message was received and many fathers across Europe are taking Hatch’s advice, banding together in activist groups and lobbying for legal and social change.

“If you want to go to a pub and watch a load of grown men cry, then go to [Families Need Fathers], If you want to get off your arse and get this law changed, go to F4J.” – Jason Hatch

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Samuel L Jackson in Unbreakable is that ever crazy hero deserves an even crazier villain.

In 2008 Michigan police responded to 911 calls from a local Movie Theater.  Dressed as The Joker, 20 year old Spencer Taylor tried to steal movie posters and other Dark Knight memorabilia from the theater lobby.  When police arrived at the scene theater employees had already retained “The Clown Prince of Crime.”   So much for being a agent of chaos.  Spencer was let off easy with court order Anger Management classes, but he would not be the last to impersonate Batman’s Arch Nemesis.

It was a normal Sunday morning on the army base Fort Eustis.   Until Army Specialist Christopher Lanum stabbed fellow soldier Mitchell Stone over a heated argument.  According to authorities Lanum was dress at The Joker at the time of the argument and he and his girlfriend, Patsy Ann Marie Montowski, fled the scene in her van.  Lanum and Montowski led the police on high-speed chase until they ran over a police laid spike strip that caused the van to crash.

Montowski told authorities that before the police had arrived Lanum had handed her a shotgun and asked her to kill him, but she refused.  Upon being surrounded by police Lanum grabbed the gun and pointed it at the police where he was shot dead by multiple  gun fire.  Montowski told investigators that her boyfriend idolized The Joker, played in the most recent Batman film, The Dark Knight, by the late Heath Ledger.  She was hospitalized due to injures received during the gun fight but was released as well as the soldier that was stabbed in the argument.

So may be it’s a good thing that Halloween comes only once a year.  We can’t all be costumed crazies running around in the street, and even if we did, it wouldn’t be long before the government issued the “Keene Act” forcing all non government-supported superheroes to retire. lol

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