Catwoman Loves Batman

A 65-year-old woman and a 70-year-old man recently morphed into Catwoman and Batman. According to this article, Jim and Nell Hamm, married for almost 50 years, kicked some mountain lion ass this weekend.

We think it went down like this: When a mountain lion began to maul Nell Hamm’s husband, she took off her old-lady hiking clothes, exposing a patent leather Catwoman suit. Cartwheeling over the cougar that was gnoshing on her husband's head, she located a four-inch wide log and attempted to bash in the skull of said mountain lion.

Even as his head was lodged in the mountain lion’s mouth, Batman Jim instructed Catwoman Nell to take the bionic pen off of his utility belt and to use it against the mountain lion. Catwoman proceeded to jab the pen into the mountain lion's eye repeatedly, giving up only when her attempts to pierce the animal’s iris failed and the pen bent in half. Hissing mightily, she returned to bashing the animal’s head in with a giant stick. Finally, the animal released Batman’s head and contemplated the taste of Catwoman’s skull. She did her best James Brown “I don’t know karate, but I know crazy” scream and stick-waving move, which scared the animal into running away.

According to reports, Hamm said, "We fought harder than we ever have to save his life, and we fought together." That a 65-year-old woman would try to beat a mountain lion off of her husband, armed only with a pen and a stick, is a true testament to the power of love. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Perhaps you’ll find that special person this weekend, the one who’d use a pencil and a broken soda bottle to stop a rabid deer from biting you while hiking in Fairmount Park.

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