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In celebration of everyone’s favorite web-head, July is Spectacular Spider-Month at AiPT! We have a series of amazing articles in store for the month. Movies, television, gaming, and of course comics will all be covered with great responsibility as we honor one of comics’ greatest heroes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spider-Man is the noblest of heroes in the world of comics, but that doesn’t mean you should trust anyone wearing his costume in real life. In fact, people adorned in the wall crawler’s apparel while committing crimes has become a disturbing trend<\/a> over the last couple decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we’re going to take a look at six of the oddest modern examples of real life Spider-Man villainy. Also, to balance things out, we’ll finish up with a couple examples of Spider-clad folks who turned out to be real life heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Failure to Change<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In the early morning hours of Friday, September 20 of 2013, 21-year-old Pittsburg University student Johnathan Hewson<\/a> walked into a convenience store wearing a full Spider-Man costume. Instead of stopping a crime or picking up ingredients for Aunt May’s wheat cakes, he shouted at the clerk “How much money you got?”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearly aware that this Spider-Man was not the same one who valued pairing great power with great responsibility, the clerk responded by pulling out a stun gun<\/a>. That’s when Spidey decided to hightail it on foot out of the store. This created one of the greatest photo opportunities imaginable, which someone was able to snap and post online (courtesy of CBS Pittsburgh<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Considering that the Pittsburg Police were looking for a man dressed in a Spider-Man costume…and that Hewson didn’t even change out of the costume after fleeing the store<\/a>…he was quickly apprehended less than a block away and charged with armed robbery. He was also ordered to undergo a mental evaluation<\/a>, where they no doubt learned that the young man was under the influence of Otto Octavius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adam Krauss<\/a>, Hewson’s roommate at the time, claimed that his friend meant no harm. He was simply a Spider-Man enthusiast who’d made a poor decision after a night of drinking. Unfortunately, the “drunken shenanigans” defense doesn’t hold up too well when you enter a convenience store in the middle night and ask about money while wearing a mask–even if that mask happens to be the same one worn by the great superhero in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you who read my blog (HI MOM!), I covered this incident back when it happened<\/a> in 2013. Since then, childhood-destroying security footage of the incident has been release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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