Stating 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:

Stating 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-...