Superheroes Arrested on the Streets of Hollywood!

Superhero fail

This is total bullshit. With everything that is wrong with our country, and in the rest of the world, this is where our tax dollars go to? These guys go to jail but the CEO and the entire board of directors for BP get to walk free? We have terrorist organizations threatening our own citizens from within our country and we do nothing about it because of "freedom of speech". Do you know how many people waist the government's money (our money) by being in jail for non-violent crimes? Times like this, I wish we did have superheroes. That way, we could actually see some justice be done.

@McLovin

Don't the rest of us, the working taxpayers, have the right to not be hassled by somebody in a superhero get up?
It's similar to any bum situation, it's way too hard to figure out who is genuine and who is a scammer.
Local police have nothing to do with things like BP. It's sort of a public disturbance and a level of solicitation.
I hope you write your reps and Senators about those bigger issues that are upsetting you. BP is not criminal. And if not for the environmentalist movement, that well would be on land and we would have capped it within a day or so.

@marvelguy - so they should all get arrested? The ones actually harassing people for money I can kind-of understand (I say kind of because they should be fined on their 1st offense as a warning and arrested if it's an issue that persists), but what about the guys/gals who haven;t done anything wrong? To arrest someone for putting on a costume? A freaking Halloween Costume??? What are we, in Cuba? China? Isn't freedom of expression also protected by our 1st amendment?

[frick]ing COPS always [frick]ing the little man over!

*******! : D

I think their cool!

[frick]ing P*GS! : D

Check this movie out its pretty cool! =

Psstttt, little does anyone know. The police cheif, is NORMAN OSBORN! We just have to wait for him to do something like attacking Asguard.

I figure a new Heroic Age will happen in a bit after that.

Damn. I guess you can't be Latino or a superhero in this country anymore.

@TheQuestion

No it's just illegal to be a superhero in LA. Being an illegal latino immigrant is just fine :P

@ anil
like really REALLY official?!?

Hahaha suckers

Danm pigs

lol actually Batman got arrested because what he was doing was not legal. Loitering, disturbing the peace, Public Solicitation all illegal acts soo law enforcement was pretty much doing their job = enforcing the law. Opinion has nothing to do with it the people on Hollywood blvd are constantly informed of what they can and cant do legally and chose to violate those laws. In reality them standing in that spot all day taking pictures with people isn't legal its loitering, disturbing the peace, etc but the cops allow such to take place because its a tourist attraction to a point. They give those people a break and let them do their thing and some of them take it too far and BREAK THE LAW SO THEY GET ARRESTED

@TheSmytheFactor - Really? But the problem is that loitering can be left to interpretation. Here is the definition for everyone to see:

1.
to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
2.
to move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand, etc.: to loiter on the way to work.
3.
to waste time or dawdle over work: He loiters over his homework until one in the morning.

I'm quite confident that every single one of us could fall under that category at one point or another. Does that mean the police should arrest us?

What about the old laws that were never taken off the books, which could still technically be enforced if their judgment is to do so.

Here, I encourage everyone who has an interest to check out these websites and tell me how much you trust law enforcement to use their judgment when enforcing these laws.

http://www.dumblaws.com/

http://www.loonylaws.com/

check these out and then tell me about what is right and what is justice. The majority should not be made to pay for the errors of the few. If you disagree, look up 1940's Japanese-American Internment Camps and get back at me.

@McLovin: to cops and the legal system, such terms aren't really left up to free interpretation like that. the only people that can really do that are your judges, and if you're lucky your lawyers might be able to manipulate it, might not. there are dictionary definitions (which you have readily supplied) that honestly would have no hold up in court, and there are legal definitions. And legally, an important part of loitering is "refusing" to listen to an officer and not moving along when you clearly have no business being at that location. You can apply your dictionary definition to every single one of us probably, but have you ever had the nerve, when a cop told you to move along, to straight up tell him no, you have the right to stand there all you want? Probably not, cuz judgin by your eloquent language you're smart enough to know you'd have your butt thrown into a cell at the local police station for harassing an officer or something similar if you tried to disrespect a cop like that.

I'm not sayin I like cops. I actually hate the cops on my campus. Me and my friends, a large group of Asian kids, after having a sandwich run at a jimmy-john's, were told to "move along" cuz we were pretty much done, and it was 3 in the morning on a business day. We were pissed at the cop, but we obeyed. Cuz the law enforcement system's here for one thing, regardless of individual cops being jerks. THEY ENFORCE THE LAW. and on the off chance they're doing their jobs right, THEY PROTECT US. without them, society's set systems would crash in seven kinds of horrific.

but hey, i'm from a town where cops actually protect people. what do i know, right?

i agree with gtrman. like i said in a previous post, i've met some of these folks just last week. for the most part, they're friendly folks; some of the ones i met are just small-time actors trying to get by with the time they got while waiting for their small breaks, and having fun with it too. but then you have the few who harass the tourists, one of which actually calling one of my friends a "cheap b%$ch" for not wanting a picture with him, and then proceeding to chase after her in a menacing manner (then again, hard not to walk in a menacing manner if you're dressed like Darth Vader). In any case, just because the majority shouldn't pay for the errors of the few does not mean the few can be ignored, and the most efficient way of dealing with those few and keeping the peace is to arrest them.

From the video shown here, ANYONE dressed in a costume was arrested without even demanding tips. I wonder if one could be arrested for just walking down the boulevard in a costume without stopping to loiter?

get a job?