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Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones charged after undercover drug bust

OrangeAtlas

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Ben Fodor's alter ego, Phoenix Jones, was the leader of the city's Rain City Superhero Movement and would don a black and gold costume — with a mask and fake six-pack abs — and insert himself into incidents of street violence, once dousing a group of people with pepper spray to break up a fight Seattle police later said wasn't a fight at all.

In recent years, Phoenix Jones largely disappeared from Seattle streets and his nocturnal crime-fighting went dark. But Fodor's name resurfaced last year when two confidential witnesses told a Seattle police-narcotics detective that Fodor was a drug dealer, with one of them expressing disbelief that he hadn't yet been caught, court records show.
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Fodor, 31, and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Andrea Berendsen, were arrested on Jan. 9, but were released from jail on Jan. 11, pending further investigation by police, jail and court records show.

On Monday, Fodor was charged with two counts of violation of the uniform control substances act (VUCSA): The first charge is for allegedly selling MDMA — a street drug known as Ecstasy or Molly — to an undercover agent in November, delivering the drugs in a paper bag to a downtown Starbucks. The second charge alleges he showed up at a Seattle hotel with Berendsen in January with cocaine they thought they were selling to a group of women. Berendsen, of Edmonds, has been charged with one count of VUCSA.
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Reminder that this is why he said he was retiring early last year:


"The difference was supposed to be the people who saw (a superhero), being inspired to not act this way anymore," he said. "We have not gotten that lesson. We didn't get it at all. The shots. The stabbings. The bullets. It wasn't worth it. No one got it. Maybe I stopped an individual situation, but people were supposed to get better."
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Something something live long enough something something villain.
 
haxan

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So is it time to write this screenplay or do we think there's another act?
 
Gundam

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Ben Fodor's alter ego, Phoenix Jones, was the leader of the city's Rain City Superhero Movement and would don a black and gold costume — with a mask and fake six-pack abs — and insert himself into incidents of street violence, once dousing a group of people with pepper spray to break up a fight Seattle police later said wasn't a fight at all.
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I mean I absolutely have zero reason to ever trust a cop but this paragraph got a giggle out of me
 
Daysean

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Sorry boss, I don't trust the police like that ESPECIALLY with black men and "possession" of narcotics
 
Chikor

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Fuck this asshole, he used to walk around town with his dumb outfit and harass homeless people and kids trying to smoke a joint.
Oh and he always called the cops on people, for dumb and shitty reasons.

Fuck him forever.
 
Stinkles

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Kegels said:
Seattle has "superheroes"?
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he has a "supercar " which is like a Chevy of some kind. And so far he's been involved in doing one more drug bust as a participant than he has a buster.


Daysean said:
Sorry boss, I don't trust the police like that ESPECIALLY with black men and "possession" of narcotics
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you have plenty of reasons to distrust the police but not this particular instance. He will have his day in court.
 
onyx

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"Twenty years in Gotham, how many good guy are left, how many stayed that way"

"No one stays good in this world"

"Sometimes the best good guys are the bad guys"

fuchsdh said:
Spider-Man was always the broke hero. If he was around today he'd have to be slinging weed on the side, because no way freelance photography is paying anyone's bills.
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A guy that can get the best and exclusive photos of Spider-man, villians, and other heroes could make a killing selling them, have a ton of social media followers, and could do well on youtube if he shot video.
 
Stinkles

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onyx said:
A guy that can get the best and exclusive photos of Spider-man, villians, and other heroes could make a killing selling them, have a ton of social media followers, and could do well on youtube if he shot video.
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"you want cash AND the exposure this beacon of truth would give you!!??"


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onyx said:
"Twenty years in Gotham, how many good guy are left, how many stayed that way"

"No one stays good in this world"

"Sometimes the best good guys are the bad guys"



A guy that can get the best and exclusive photos of Spider-man, villians, and other heroes could make a killing selling them, have a ton of social media followers, and could do well on youtube if he shot video.
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Maybe. It's kind of funny that it's been less than twenty years since they rethought Spider-Man's origin with Ultimate Spider-Man, and they'd have to update a huge chunk of it to feel timely if they did it again.
 
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