Why San Francisco is cooler than whatever city you live in.

[EvilGrins]

Today SF is being converted into Gotham City to give a little kid his dream of being Batman.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/T ... 984043.php

[EvilGrins]

Update as the adventures continue · http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/11/sfbatkid/

Skim down a lot on that, great pics!

[Hook]

Ah, very nice!

[Hermskii]

And it only cost $105,000.00

Does the city pay for that meaning the citizens or does that come out of private donations to make a wish?

[EvilGrins]

donations, I believe

[David]

And it only cost $105,000.00

Does the city pay for that meaning the citizens or does that come out of private donations to make a wish?

I was going to say something about the cost as well since there was a lot of public servants working on that detail. But I decided not because I know that the cost, the real life facts, is not the intended focus of this act to grant a wish.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/21/thi ... -his-wish/

The city of San Francisco shelled out $105,000 turning itself into Gotham for the now-famous Batkid, who captured national attention last Friday as the Leukemia stricken-boy whose one wish was to be a super hero.

Most of the money was spent renting a sound-system, video screens, and other last-minute equipment rentals to accommodate the massive crowd that gathered at City Hall to watch Batkid, AKA Miles Scott, receive a chocolate key to the city, the Associated Press reports. The city hopes to recoup some of the costs from private donations. A spokeswoman for the mayor’s office said that costs would have been even higher if many vendors hadn’t donated their services.

The Make-a-Wish foundation organized the event for little five-year-old Miles, and even Christian Bale of Dark Knight fame said he was touched.

You’d think Batkid could have used some of the money from thwarting the Riddler’s bank heist. But no, he would never.