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TAMPA, Fla. -- In the comics, Batman usually manages to stay a few steps ahead of disapproving police officers, but Tampa's own Caped Crusader wasn't so lucky.
Far from Gotham's crime-infested alleys, 21-year-old Walsh Ian Nichols frequently patrols the nightclubs of Ybor City dressed as the Dark Knight.
But Tampa police arrested Nichols Friday for violating a state law that forbids wearing a mask on a public right of way.
The statute, which was written in the 1950s, was reportedly aimed at hooded Ku Klux Klan members.
A police spokeswoman acknowledged that the law is rarely enforced but said Nichols had been warned several weeks earlier about wearing the mask
.Nichols was released a few hours after his arrest on $500 bail.Undeterred by police keeping his mask as evidence, Nichols told the St. Petersburg Times that he has a spare.
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