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NATION, Page 29American NotesNEW MEXICOBanning a BATmobile
The Batman summer superhype has caught up with Las Cruces
police chief Ron Axtell. Warner Communications demanded that the
city stop using the Batman logo on its ambulance-like BATmobile.
The vehicle is used to catch drunk drivers, and its popularized
name really stands for the breath alcohol-testing unit.
Axtell did not mind losing his BATmobile. "I'm sure it's not
going to affect our arrests," he said. "The people we put in it
probably don't even know there's a bat on it, they're so drunk."
But Axtell was no joker. He cut a deal and got Warner to donate
an official Batman jacket as a prize in a city-wide contest to come
up with a new name for the five-year-old program.
It's all more hype for a batty summer.