#CoryBookerStories: Newark Mayor as Folk Hero
Twitter users turned Mayor Cory Booker's imagined exploits into a meme after he rescued a neighbor from a burning building.
- Newark Mayor Cory Booker took to Twitter after news of his fire exploits came out on Thursday night, and then again Friday morning.
- Twitter responded by turning the 42-year-old mayor of New Jersey's largest city into a folk hero. The hashtag #CoryBookerStories became a trending topic on the micro-blogging service Friday morning, as users added over-the-top tales of Booker's imagined exploits and powers.
- After the incident, Smoke was treated for Cory Booker exposure. #CoryBookerStories
- One time I needed a kidney. Cory Booker instantly ripped out his own, handed it to me & flew away. #CoryBookerStories
- Justin Bieber has posters of Cory Booker on his bedroom wall. #CoryBookerStories
- Cory Booker goes into Freddy Kreuger's dreams and fixes Elm Street's potholes. #CoryBookerStories
- A reference to the "Hunger Games" franchise....
- A lot of people know Cory Booker played football at Stanford—but they don't know he played every position at once. #CoryBookerStories
- Cory Booker melts snow from the driveways of elderly women with his laser vision. #CoryBookerStories
- There is no climate change problem. Cory Booker just wants to keep us all warm and snuggly. #CoryBookerStories
- God gave Cory Booker to New Jersey to make up for everything. #CoryBookerStories
- #CoryBookerStories one time Cory Booker punched a shark in the face then high fived a dolphin
- The Ghostbusters call Cory Booker when they have ghost problems. #CoryBookerStories
- Cory Booker not only heard the voice from the burning bush, he saved two larks and a squirrel that were inside it #CoryBookerStories



















