A REAL-LIFE SUPERMAN?

Beyond all of the Oscar buzz and J.Lo's nip slippage live on national TV, I wanted to start this week off with an amazing story rather than rant about something and make someone look dumber than they really are. Today, I wanted to let you know about a real-life Superman! You see, a New York City police officer's life was saved recently when his gun belt deflected a suspect's bullet in a Lower East Side shootout Monday (today) morning.



According to NYPD Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, father of that idiot FOX morning guy Greg Kelly who got away with raping someone, he stated that if the bullet hit an inch away from where it landed, it would've been right in the officer's stomach. Or was it? You know, in the comic books, whenever Supermen got shot, he always made it seem like the bullet would hit something else if he was dressed like his alter-ego, Clark Kent. In an NYPD statement, the officers shot and wounded the suspect, followed his blood trail right to his apartment and arrested him.

The gun battle in the Baruch Houses unfolded at around 1:40 am when officers Thomas Richards and Thomas Dunne left their police van to approach a man who was acting suspiciously on Columbia Street. The suspect, Luis Martinez, muttered something at the officers, turned to Officer Richards and blasted away. One round struck the spare ammunition magazine on Richards' gun belt bending the magazine....Or did it? Maybe it actually did strike the man of steel?

Commissioner Kelly stated that it was a very close call for Officer Richards, and that the magazine may have well saved his life......Or has it? Are we sure it wasn't Officer Richards' steel plated body that he was born with on the planet Krypton? Anyway, Officer Richards returned fire and chased Martinez as he fled on Columbia toward Baruch Drive, where 200 feet from 64 Baruch Drive, Martinez stopped, turned and opened fire again on Richards and Dunne, in which both officers returned fire.

Martinez began running again, stopped outside the aforementioned address and shot at the officers for a third time, while a return fire ensued. Martinez was hit in the upper right leg, but still managed to run into the building, where responding Emergency Service Unit officers followed the blood trail to his apartment and took him into custody. Martinez's 9-MM handgun was recovered in the building's trash compactor. I'm pretty sure that Officer Richards found that with his X-Ray vision.

Officer Dunne and Richards are said to be fine and in great spirits. The incident marked the fourth time a NYPD police officer was shot in two months. Not a good sign for the NYPD. By the way, I don't care what anybody says, unless proven otherwise, I think that Officer Richards might be a real-life Superman!  No can be that lucky!