[VID/PICS] SWAT Team Dresses Up As Superheroes To Cheer Up Sick Children For Halloween
In our this week's FEEL GOOD FRIDAY column, we present to you a story about how real-life heroes from a SWAT team dreamed up an adventure to entertain the sick children of ProMedica Hospital.
By Sadho Ram — 07 Nov 2014, 12:19 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
When sick kids and their families at a hospital in Ohio needed something to cheer them up during this Halloween, members of a SWAT team took it upon themselves. They donned superhero costumes and arrived on the hospital roof via helicopter.
Seen in this photo are members of the Toledo Police Department's SWAT team dressed as Batman and Spiderman
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The superheroes in costume, dangling from ropes attached to the root, then started scaling down the hospital building...
Toledo police SWAT team member Sgt. Bill Shaner, dressed as Spider-Man, waves to children through the window as he rappels from ProMedica Toledo Hospital’s roof.
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Staff members at ProMedica Toledo Children's Hospital look out the window to catch a glimpse of the superheroes...
Toledo Police Department SWAT Team member Scott Williamson, dressed as Superman, waving to kids in the window...
In all the SWAT team dressed up as Thor, Superman, the Hulk, and TMNT, among other famous heroes and comic book characters, with their grand entry being viewed on a TV indoors, featuring a newscaster, The HuffPost reported
The children, gathered around a TV, were brought into the fantasy by a hospital-made video showing a news anchor announcing that the world’s greatest superheroes were on their way to defeat the evil “Professor Trickster”, who stole all of Toledo’s Halloween treats to power his winter weather machine.
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The young patients, dressed in their own costumes donated by a local charity, helped to summon the heroes with their glow sticks after learning of Professor Trickster’s whereabouts near the hospital.
The heroes then descended down the building on ropes where the Professor Trickster was waiting for battle. In the end, good triumphed over evil and Halloween was saved for all to enjoy.
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Children from ProMedica Toledo Children’s Hospital strain to get a look at Toledo Police Department SWAT Team members dressed as superheroes
Image via toledoblade.comAfterward, the superheroes who came inside to chat with the children and parents, and posed for photos, called it one of the best days they have ever had
"It was awesome," police patrolman Matt Slaman, aka Wolverine, told ABC13 of the experience. " To see all the kids ... as you're going down the floor -- all those people in their rooms -- you can see their faces light up. So, you're really seeing you're bringing some joy in their life."
The officers were inspired after viewing videos and photos of window washers elsewhere dressed in costumes to surprise sick children. Officer Matthew Slaman says he was confident he and fellow officers could have the same results in Toledo.
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For 8-year-old Nicholas Pinkstaff, the event was a special one that hit close to home, ComicBook.com reported
For Nicholas, pretending to be a superhero gave him the strength to ultimately beat leukemia. “Superheroes kind of helped me a little,” he said. “It helped me get through cancer because I stuck up to them.”
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