So, how on earth is he
going to get himself out of this situation? A 23-year-old unemployed
man with a superhero name has been jailed for nearly three years for theft,
trespassing and drug use. Batman bin Suparman was
caught on CCTV breaking into a snooker hall at the Depot Heights Shopping
Centre in Singapore on two separate occasions and stealing S$500 (£250) in
total. He pleaded guilty to
various charges, including stealing his brother’s bank card to make withdrawals
totalling S$650 (£325), and taking heroin. Batman was sent to prison for a
total of 33 months.
Batman - who was arrested
on August 19 and jailed yesterday - became a social media sensation when an
image of his oddly-named identity card, listing a date of birth of May 13,
1990, went viral. News of the theft - which
took place at a snooker hall called Games Fusion Billards at the mall on Depot
Road - was first reported by the likes of Agence France-Presse and Channel News
Asia.
A Facebook fan page called
‘Batman bin Suparman Fan Club’ has gathered more than 11,000 likes. One post by
a user suggested he 'legally changed his name to be a misspelled DC character
hybrid'. Other users on the website
said he could use his time in jail to 'catch up on all your comic book
reading', while another said: 'He's only in jail for training, like at the
beginning of Batman Begins'. And Kevin Yang said: 'Our
idol has been jailed! Someone break him out of prison!'
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