Friday, 30 January 2015

Double-Barrelled Superhero

A man with the real  name of  'Batman bin Suparman' has been jailed for 33 months by a court in Singapore, on theft and drugs charges after stealing money from a shop, as well as using his brother's cash card to withdraw money.

Batman bin Suparman Jailed
Batman bin Suparman

This kind of beats the all the other naughty superheroes we have followed on this thread.

His double-barrelled superhero name had given him something of cult following on social media, from as long ago as May 2008, when his a Singaporean ID card began being widely shared on social media with more 15,000 tweets and 11,000 followers on facebook.

Its still an unusual juxtaposition of the native Suparman and the western derived Batman (which probably indicates a parental sense of humour ....

Batman And Superman Have Combined Before
Batman And Superman Have Combined Before ...
 
But now that he's been a very naughty boy, so that's all ended but, hey ho that's social media fame for you.

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