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How much did this cost the city? It's adorable but blocking streets off and crowd control costs money.
by codezero 13y ago
How much did this cost the city? It's adorable but blocking streets off and crowd control costs money.
- chris_wot 13y agoBruce Wayne had it covered.
- codezero 13y agoIf that's true then: awesome.
- jaredsohn 13y agoStating the obvious: it is not true, since fictional characters cannot pay for things in the real world. From some Googling, a WSJ story says about the police: "It just cost us our time. We told the guys prior that they were not going to make overtime, the ones who chose to hang around it was more of having your heart in the right place. Obviously it was necessary to put police resources into it, that happens all over major cities all the time, but this was not publicly funded." http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/11/15/police-chief-greg-suhr-on-how-batkid-saved-san-francisco/ http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/11/15/police-chief-greg-...
- alan_cx 13y agoPerhaps "Bruce Wayne's" money might have been better spent in providing base line care and medical research to the benefit of many, rather than spending it on a big PR stunt.
- imroot 13y agoI think you're totally missing the point of the Make-A-Wish foundation -- the MAW foundation isn't for care. It's to make the life of a child who's been affected by a life-threatening disease a little bit better so that they can enjoy something magical in their life.
- chris_wot 13y agoMany, many people benefitted from this.
- alan_cx 13y agoAnd how much of that money could have been used to treat other equally worthy people suffering in equally hard ways?