Caped Crusaders fight real crime

Metro13 April 2012

Batman and Robin are back fighting crime - in Whitley. Two mystery men dressed as the Caped Crusader and his sidekick have scared away robbers in the town near Reading.

They also saved a stranded motorist and even shooed off two streakers from a football pitch.

'They just appeared - I saw them running down the road in Batman and Robin outfits,' said driver Michelle Kirby, who was pushed to a petrol station after her Peugeot 206 ran out of fuel.

'I was laughing so much. They stayed in character the whole time.' Ray Cox, 61, spotted the real-life superheroes sprinting through the town while shopping with his wife. 'Batman was quite a broad chap,' he said. 'They would scare a few muggers off.'

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