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Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man II

The clerk at a convenience store in Jacksonville, N.C., was startled when a man in a Spider-Man costume stuck a Samurai sword in her face and said “give me your money and I will not hurt you.” What, just a sword? She fought back, jabbing him in the stomach with a broom handle. “The store clerk then went into a total defense of her life and Spider-Man went into a total defense of his robbery attempt,” said Onslow County Sheriff Ed Brown. Another clerk jumped into the fray to help her co-worker, and “It was at this point the suspect dressed as Spider-Man had his mask ripped off and part of his ponytail hair ripped out,” Brown said. “The suspect, now unmasked, was just fighting to survive, got away, and ran out of the store.” Deputies tracked the man down to a nearby apartment, where he had been shaving his head. “His hair was all over a table in the living room,” Brown said, “but the suspect was unable to get rid of the lumps on his head that were left by the broom handle.” Dale Foughty, 56, was charged with attempted armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon, and injury to personal property. (RC/Jacksonville Daily News) ...The “personal property” being Stan Lee’s reputation.