Be warned , superhero wannabes : Squeezing into a duad of leotards and grabbing the nearest cape before going out to fight for Department of Justice will more likely get you jail than applauded these days . Plus , as a few of the bolder entries on this list found out the hard way , suit up surely wo n’t get you off the lure for breaking and entering , drug self-will , or driving while intoxicated .
1. Spider-Man Scales The Sears Tower
Donning a custom - made Spider - Man costume and packing an assortment of suction cups and rock - climbing equipment , Dan Goodwinset out to move up the 110 - account Chicago skyscraper(now known as the Willis Tower ) on May 25 , 1981 . Seven time of day afterwards , he bring home the bacon … only to be immediately reserve for trespassing , and interrogated by the city ’s Fire Commissioner .
2. Batman Arrested For Obstructing A Crime Scene
Mark Williams thought he ’d help a local police probe by imitating the dark knight himself last October . Instead , the 31 - year - sometime Michigan residentfound himself incarceratedfor blockade a constabulary probe . Adding insult to accidental injury , his costume was confiscated in the process .
3. Batman Arrested For Stealing Power Tools
stamp down law enforcement is bad enough , but some Batman lover have even been claim business district for petty thievery . Case in full point : one Stan Worby of Bradford , England . Worby had previously made headline fordragging a treasured criminal into his local constabulary station . Just over a calendar month afterwards , he was accused of burgling $ 1200 worth of force tools from a nearby service department and arrest accordingly . After he pled not guilty , he was release on bail .
4. Captain America And The Badly-Placed Burrito
At a costume party at a bar in Melbourne , Florida , Dr. Raymond Adamcik arrive clad in a Captain America muscular tissue suit … consummate with a burrito wedge below the knock . After he made a serial of lewd suggestions pertaining thereto , thepolice were calledto intervene . That he was catch trying to dispose of a joint at the time did n’t assist his example .
5. Banana Boy’s Slippery Situation
worker Chris Phelps and company found themselves in trouble with the law when a choreographed street fight they ’d been film that starred Phelps ’ cowardly “ Banana Boy ” character and a masked brigand lookeda little too realfor local authorities .
6. Super-Heroin
Not even the Man of Steel has a unclouded track criminal record . A suspicious character sport a Superman costume and wave at passing traffic in Wasilla , Alaska was questioned by a province trooper who discovered “ an undisclosed amount of diacetylmorphine ” on his person .
7. Phoenix Jones Lands In The Big House
By day , he ’s Benjamin Fodor . By Nox , he ’s Phoenix Jones , a masked offence - fighter roaming the street of Seattle . And in 2011 , his conclusion to use pepper spray to break up a street fight landed him in the slammer for ravishment , as the follow clip explains .
After spending seven hours behind bar , Jones made bail andhis causa was finally dismiss . “ I ’m just like everybody else , ” Fodor says . “ The only remainder is I decided to stop criminal offense in my neighborhood . ”
8. Scottish Batman Slapped With DUI With Drunk Superman Riding Shotgun
Anstruther is normally a quiet little township in the Scottish lowlands . But on August 15 , 2006 , police arrested a driver and his rider — adorned in Batman and Superman cogwheel , severally — afterboth run out a mandatory breathalyzer trial run . In the words of an anon. spokesman , “ This is a substantial crepuscle from goodwill for two superheroes . I am certain [ drunk ] driving is not allowed in Gotham City . ”
