A New Superhero? Boy hit by meteor!

In a bit of strange news a boy in Germany was struck by a meteor.  Fourteen year old Gerrit Blank was coming home from school when he was suddenly struck by a space-rock.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/boy-survives-being-struck-by-a-meteorite/

I can only hope that the United States swoops in and takes this boy before the Germans do.   Only god knows what the Germans would do with a superhero in their hands.  I’m not saying I expect that the boy will have superpowers because of the incident (he won’t), in fact it’s extremely unlikely that it would happen, but who wants to take a chance that if he does, the Germans will have access to him?

Just for research purposes I checked into whether or not any German superheroes do exist, and it appears there is only one.

BLITZKRIEGER! ( or Der Blitzkrieger)

Apparently Blitzkrieger joined up with some German superheroes to form a group called Schutz Heiligruppe.  It seems they came together around WWII, and although they were supposedly good guys, with a name like that – who knows.

The article does mention one other person that was struck by a meteor, a housewife from Alabama in 1954, but she was struck in the hip.  The hip is the probably the one place that you could get hit and you would actually not develop superpowers.  In fact, you would probably just suffer from hip pain the rest of your life.  Hip injuries are a terrible burden to deal with.

I suppose the government can hold off on capturing the young boy until he’s spotted in a cape, but once he puts that cape on it may be too late to act….