Our hero! Batkid saves the day in San Francisco

[PoppaGeek]

Totally cool!
USA Today

SAN FRANCISCO -- The day dawned blue and warm. Perfect weather for a robbery. Or so the Penguin thought.

Saving the day while raising the spirits of a major U.S. city was pint-sized Miles Scott, 5. Miles is in remission from leukemia, and, thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, managed to turn his obsession with comic book heroes into the real thing. Well, almost. There was no way Penguin was going to get away with anything on Friday.

Thousands of San Franciscans responded to an avalanche of social media blasts, lining the streets wherever Miles and a full-sized Batman swooped into action. At Hyde and Green streets, there was a damsel in distress to rescue, and the bat duo arrived in a Lamborghini with Batman decals. At 550 Montgomery St., a burgled bank vault needed to be liberated. And at Union Square, there was a hamburger to down.

Today.com

Miles, who is from northern California and is now in remission, asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation if he could become Batman. The request seemed simple enough: As of Thursday evening, Miles thought he would receive a costume to make the fantasy come to life, according to the organization?s national communications manager Josh deBerge.

Miles didn?t know, however, that the ?City by the Bay? was being transformed into present-day Gotham. On Friday, Miles was outfitted as Batkid and paired with an actor dressed as Batman, who drove the pair across town in a black sports car emblazoned with a Batman symbol.

Video from CNN