A 20-year-old Japanese man named Masayuki Ishikawa attacked and robbed two people in August of 2008, simply because they spotted him in his Winnie the Pooh costume and couldn't stop staring. This makes me even more wary of those terrifying bootleg characters that hang out in Times Square trying to get tourists to take pictures with them.
It figures it would be Raphael, wouldn't it? A man wearing a Ninja Turtles mask with Raphael's signature red eye mask recently held up a Wendy's at gunpoint in Wisconsin. The turtle tied up two employees before making off with a whole bunch of the restaurant's earnings. Police are still looking for the suspect; if you have any information, get in touch with the Marathon County Sheriff's Department at (715) 261-1200.
In August of 2010 a man dressed as Avatar Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) in N'avi form held up a bank in Brooklyn. It's a distinct possibility that the perpetrator was delusion; not only was he totally naked and painted blue, but also, he appeared to be speaking the Na'vi language. Interpreters determined that the language was not Klingon.
Oh no! Not Batman! But yes: The Caped Crusader robbed a McDonald's in October, 2010. Furthermore, he was wearing vampire teeth. You heard me: Batman is a vampire.
A 20-year-old Japanese man named Masayuki Ishikawa attacked and robbed two people in August of 2008, simply because they spotted him in his Winnie the Pooh costume and couldn't stop staring. This makes me even more wary of those terrifying bootleg characters that hang out in Times Square trying to get tourists to take pictures with them.
The Sith Lord held up a bank in Long Island at the end of July in 2010. No word on whether or not he used the Force to carry out the crime.
Now for the ick factor: Sex offender James Lester Rogers was arrested in August at the Mississippi Valley Fair in Iowa while dressed in a Cookie Monster costume. Rogers, who had been convicted for "lascivious acts" with a seven-year-old girl in 2005, is forbidden by Iowa law to be in places where children are present. We can only hope he wasn't planning on using the Cookie Monster costume to lure in kids. Ick.
Surprisingly, the perpetrators of this crime weren't Wario and Waluigi, but their supposedly good counterparts. At around 4am on November 1, 2009, two men dressed as the classic Nintendo characters assaulted and robbed a Staten Island cab driver. That's one helluva Halloween night.
Okay, I know KISS are actually real people, but for all intents and purposes they're playing characters, so I think this one counts: The day before Halloween in 2010, a man dressed as a member of KISS held up a bank in Wolcott, Connecticut. Getting menaced by KISS toting guns? Not so fun.
Spongebob apparently ventured out of his pineapple under the sea on August 1 in order to rob a 7-11 in Florida. Patrick and Squidward were nowhere to be seen; presumably they aren't aware of their friend's criminal tendencies.
At the very beginning of January this year, a man wearing pink hospital scrubs, a black wig, and a Darth Vader helmet and wielding a hatchet was arrested for robbing a bank in Los Angeles. Either Vader's a little more unhinged than we first thought, or he's got a brother hanging around that no one knows about.
This isn't Reindeer Games: A sunglasses-wearing Santa Claus robbed a SunTrust Bank in Nashville shortly before Christmas in 2009. Way to spoil the holidays.
Well, at least SOMEONE is still fighting crime! This one is a happy story: When a man in an Australian comic book store tried to shoplift a £100 X-Men Omnibus, store owner Michael Baulderstone, who was dressed in a Spiderman costume for Free Comic Day, confronted the thief. He also got roughly 40 other costumed shoppers, including a few Jedi Knights and the Flash, to block the store exit. Supernerds to the rescue!
