Don’t say we didn’t try to warn people. We posted yesterday that our benevolent benefactors at Consumers Union would be unleashing Bankzilla upon the innocent people of Washington, D.C., and we were not kidding. Just check out the video for the evidence.

By no coincidence, Bankzilla is rampaging through the streets of D.C. at the same time as the Senate attempts to vote on financial reform.

Whatever you might think of the hullaballoo in Washington right now, you can just enjoy the site of a grown man being swallowed whole by an inflatable monster:

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