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It started out as a simple request to the Make-a-Wish Foundation. But it turned into a full-blown phenomenon as the entire city of San Fransisco turned into Gotham with 11-thousand volunteers helping a five-year old boy become Batman. Jennifer Bjorklund has the touching story.
A little boys dream come true. He is Batman.
The hope was for a hundred or so, but at least 11-thousand volunteers came out to cheer on a boy intent on saving the city from evil and make his fantasy of becoming Batman, real.
Five-year old Miles Scott, a-k-a Batkid, has fought evil all his cognitive life in the form of leukemia for four years.
Natalie Scott is Miles’ mother: “He loves super heroes. He likes to save, be a super hero, he is one in our minds.”
“Gonna be batman. You get to be batman (Miles shakes his head yes) Oh my goodness, that is so cool.”
Yes, it is so cool. And he doesn’t even realize what the city has in store for him. The Police Chief calling on him to rescue a damsel in distress on the cable car tracks.
Jackie Johnston is a resident: “It was so cute. He was just the cutest. You could see him get all excited and put his hands on his hips, I mean, it was fun, it was so much fun.”
A mob of thousands enlisting him to capture the evil ‘Riddler’ who is trying to rob a bank.
Then go after kidnappers who grab the Giants’ mascot, “Lou Seal” in a car chase around the city.
Kate Butleer, resident: “He came alive in his little mask, he was so Batman in that moment and we got to see right up close so I’m proud of him and his family probably had a wonderful morning.”
All of it chronicled, in, well a special edition of the San Francisco Chronicle.
He thought he was in the city to get a new Batman costume, but he is in for so much more. And still has so much more to look forward to he’s in remission after all his young years of fighting cancer.
Natalie: “He’s beat an awful disease so that makes him a hero to me.”
And now has a city full of heroes volunteers who may turn out to be his new favorite super-heroes.
