Well. This is disappointing. Stillshots of someone dressed as Batman taken from CC cameras went viral yesterday, and we all thought there was a real life Batman bringing in criminals. Turns out, it was just a guy who agreed to drive his buddy to the police station to turn himself in, and he decided to stay in the Batman costume he had just worn to a kids event as a prank. We've all been punk'd.

A Batman wannabe who captured the world's inner comic-book nerd has had his cowl lifted by British media — revealing a 39-year-old takeaway delivery man who was helping his burglar pal pull a prank on police.

"Obviously it was done as a joke," Stan Worby told ITV Daybreak.

He went on to explain that 27-year-old Danny Frayne, who was wanted on burglary and fraud-related charges, personally asked him to drive him down to the Bradford police station on February 25th.

"I told him as soon as I was home I would run him to Bradford central police station," Worby recalled.

Having just been to a soccer game wearing the Batman costume, Worby thought it would be amusing to wear it again to the police station.

Even though I think it's amazing that the friend was actually turning himself in, this still warrants a sad trombone sound. *womp, womp, wooooomp*

(CCTV stills via West Yorkshire Police, Gawker)