Tigger “Punches” 14 Year-Old Kid, Kid Goes To Hospital

By January 9, 2007

Home video of a New Hampshire family’s trip to Disney world shows Tigger “punching” a 14 year-old boy. “The boy’s father, Jerry Monaco, says the costumed character “sucker punched” his boy Friday as his children posed for a picture. He says his son later experienced neck pain and he took him to a hospital.”

Tigger says it was “self-defense,” and has been suspended from his job. Mr. Monoco lodged an official complaint, but all he’s looking for is an apology from Tigger.

“The general manager apologized to me,” Monaco Sr. said. “Everybody will come up and apologize to me but Tigger. He won’t be a man about it and get out of the costume and come out and apologize to my son. I didn’t want VIP treatment. I didn’t want an extra day at Disney. I didn’t want any of that. I wanted him to apologize and that is the one thing that they won’t do.” —MEGHANN MARCO

Home Video Shows ‘Tigger’ Character Apparently Punching Boy’s Face (with video!) [Local 6]

Tagged With: , , ,
«
»

Comments

  1. pestie says:
    January 10, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Never in my life have I met a 14-year-old who didn’t deserve to get punched in the head by a giant cartoon character. Never.

  2. Michael says:
    January 10, 2007 at 10:12 pm

    If you follow the tip for detecting Photoshop fakes, dialing down the hue and upping the saturation, you will clearly see by how much Tigger stands out from the rest of the image that he must have been digitally added. He was never there. The video was faked.

    http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/4305/tiggerqf4.jpg

    In fact, I’ll bet one could find someone who has a picture or video of themselves with Tigger taken at the exact same moment in another part of Disney World. Even if Tiggers are flouncy, bouncy things, they still can’t be in two places at once. Case closed. ;)

  3. theinsanefurry says:
    January 10, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    I’m siding with Tigger on this.

    High school is going to be hell for this kid! It was hell for me just being “the nerd”, this kid will be “the nerd that got beat up by Tigger!”. To make matters worse, they put this on the net, this kid will never hear the end of it, kinda like the star wars kid.

  4. Stepehn Colbert says:
    January 11, 2007 at 2:41 am

    vanilla-fro

    I enjoyed Disney when I was 14, now 21, and the thought of one of the Winnie the Pooh characters punching me in the face would probably greatly disturb me. Perhaps I was a different variety of “happy, enchanted child”, who believed everything held silliness and friendship.
    Without knowing the child’s state of mind, and only harboring an opinion of it , this unfounded attack on the tendencies of this 14 year-old go without a hard basis. We see the child playing with Tigger, we see the child pat Tigger on the back or perhaps “pull his tail”. These generally don’t seem like the actions of someone out to harm, or mentally disturb what “should be”, a lovable “amusement park idol”.

« Older Comments