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Cops in Superhero Costumes Found the Best Way to Surprise Sick Kids

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Children in an Aurora, Colo. hospital got a surprise Wednesday evening when they looked out their windows and saw Superman waving to them.

A police SWAT team in Aurora dressed up as a group of superheroes—including Batman, Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America—and rappelled down the sides of Children’s Hospital to visit the young patients’ windows.

According to a Facebook post by the police department, this is the second year the cops have done this and they enjoy “bringing smiles to everyone’s faces, even their own!”

Photos: Inside a Hospital for California's Stranded Seals and Sea Lions

Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A California sea lion sits on the edge of a pool at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014.Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
California sea lions swim and sit out in the sun while visitors look on at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Harbor seal pups wear plastic identification tags that help caregivers tell them apart at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Herring breakfasts are organized and labeled for each seal and sea lion at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A harbor seal pup wears a plastic "hat tag," used to identify individual animals at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A malnourished elephant seal pup looks outside a pen at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Volunteers tube-feed a malnourished harbor seal pup at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A volunteer restrains an elephant seal pup while the animal is fed through a tube at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A shaved patch on the back of a harbor seal shows where blood was drawn during an admit exam at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Seals and sea lions released back into their natural habitat are added to annual graduation posters at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif., May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Researchers perform a necropsy on a California sea lion that died of malnutrition at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014.Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Dr. Shawn Johnson, Director of Veterinary Science, listens to the lungs of a young sea lion under anesthesia at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
A California sea lion pup undergoes surgery for a lymph node abscess at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Students on a field trip learn what to do if they find a stranded seal on the beach at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
Siobhan Rickert, 18, has been a volunteer at the Marine Mammal Center for four years She is one of a dedicated network of 1,100 volunteers who help run the facility in Marin County, Calif., May 9, 2014.Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
An elephant seal pup lies in an enclosure at the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, Calif. on May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME
Sick Baby Seals Marine Mammal Center
The Marine Mammal Center sits where the U.S. military once had a missile site outside San Francisco, in the Marin Headlands, Calif., May 9, 2014. Corey Arnold for TIME

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