Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Repossesses Occupy Wall Street ‘Batmobile’

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream co-founder Ben Cohen wants his Occupy Wall Street “Batmobile” back.

Earlier this year, Cohen doled out nearly $30,000 to a group of Occupy Wall Street activists with an unusual idea — for a passenger van to be rigged with a powerful projector that would beam progressive messages onto the sides of buildings.
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After a lengthy “custody battle,” the activists agreed to share the van with Cohen through the end of the summer and then hand it over to him on Monday.

“He didn’t want to have to bother with the messy part of being in a democracy,” said Mark Read, the activist who initially proposed The Illuminator idea and helped operate it.

“He’s a 1 percenter,” Read, 46, added, “telling the 99 percent, ‘I’m your boss.’”