Children who are ill enough to have to spend time in hospital miss out on a lot of fun, especially if they have to stay in for the holidays.
For residing patients at Ohio’s Promedica Toledo Children’s Hospital in the US, it is the same story. Being too ill to go out and trick-or-treat, the children were disappointed to be missing out on Halloween.
That is - until they got caught up in a special heist to save the city from the evil Dr Trickster!
Watching a newsflash on television inside the hospital, patients at the children’s hospital were informed that Dr Trickster wanted to ruin Halloween for everyone in Toledo. He had stolen all of the city’s Halloween candy to fuel his winter-weather device.
But all was not lost! The newscaster announced that help was on the way in the form of superheroes who would be converging on the roof of the children’s hospital. To help, all of the children had to dress up in Halloween costumes donated by a local charity and stand at the front fifth-floor window waving glowsticks, signalling the heroes where to go.
Once the helicopters had dropped the heroes onto the roof, they scaled down the building, waving at the children as they passed their window.
After reaching the ground, the superheroes faced their foe and managed to capture him. The patients and their families then watched a video showing Dr Trickster being led into custody by the Toledo police SWAT team.
After they had “saved the day” the heroes gathered inside to meet the children and their families and to have hugs and pictures taken.
The members of the SWAT team that had led Dr Trickster away were actually the same people behind the superhero masks. They had been inspired to give the young children a Halloween to remember after hearing stories of window-washers elsewhere who would dress up in the same way and surprise sick children.
Police patrolman Matt Slaman, also known as Wolverine, described the whole experience as both cool and awesome. “To see all the kids, as you are going down the floor; all those people in their rooms, you can see their faces light up,” he said. “So, you’re really seeing you are bringing some joy in their life.”
These people gave the children a Halloween when they would otherwise have missed out because of their illnesses, and gave them some happy memories of their time in hospital. If you want to watch them in action, there is a video below. And if you want to check out more photos of the day, you can on the hospital’s Facebook page .
As you can see from the children’s face, these SWAT superheroes certainly “saved” Halloween for them!
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