The Amazing Adventures of Phoenix Jones: And the Less Amazing Adventures of Some Other Real-Life Superheroes by Jon Ronson

Author:Jon Ronson [Ronson, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B005ZOCFNQ
Goodreads: 12999701
Publisher: Riverhead
Published: 2011-11-22T08:00:00+00:00

As soon as Phoenix enters the fray—and it’s hard to tell how violent the fray had been because the moment Phoenix arrives everyone stops fighting and just stares, baffled, at him—a small woman begins to repeatedly hit him with her shoe.

“You piece of shit,” she yells. (This is the woman later identified as Maria.)

Everything becomes chaotic. A car zooms in and deliberately hits a pedestrian. It is presumably a car driven by one of the partygoers, and makes me suspect that the street fight Phoenix intervened in had not been a friendly little nothing thing, as the police and Maria had intimated, but something more serious.

“Where are the cops?” Phoenix yells. “We need the cops now. This is getting serious.”

A young man races toward Phoenix and he responds by pepper-spraying him in the face.

“I got fucking pepper spray in my eye!” Maria yells at one point.

A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: “A huge group of people are fighting and there’s pepper spray and superheroes and I don’t know.”

“Protect yourselves!” Phoenix yells.

“Oh my God, oh my God,” says the nerdy bystander, and as I watch this from the safety of my home I think, “There but for the grace of God go I.”

The video ends.

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