Posted on 02/11/2016 6:21:39 AM PST by C19fan
The actors playing Minnie Mouse, Olaf from Frozen and the Cookie Monster were arrested by police in New York for hassling tourists for money. The rather surreal scene played out in Times Square, after the costumed characters had posed for a photo with one tourist. As he moved away from the colourful characters, they began to follow him and demanded that he hand over money for the photo.
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Too cold for nudity I guess
I’m pretty certain that suing people for wearing their costumes would cut into Disney’s profits on selling the costumes...
I just had my first exposure to Triumph the Insult Dog the other day on Free Republic.
I am sending links to everyone I know.
Yeah, I had never heard of those furry people either until that episode. Jeez, the world has gone crazy..
The one with the college kids?
That was hilarious!
It reminded me of an anecdote told to Alexander Solzhenitsyn in "The Gulag Archipelago" (which every one of these kids needs to read):
At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name).... For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the 'stormy applause, rising to an ovation,' continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.
However, who would dare to be the first to stop?... After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who quit first!... At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly - but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?... With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers!...
Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved! The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel.
That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:
"Don't ever be the first to stop applauding."
There is a lesson there for these politically correct slaves...
Wearing the costumes isn’t the problem. Wearing them and trading on them FOR PROFIT is.
Sure, but how many people do you think buy these professional-grade full body costumes (which you’ll sweat off 5 lbs a day wearing), unless they are doing it for profit?
We’re not talking Halloween masks here.
Maybe when you buy the costume, you’re also buying the rights to profit by it. It would be an interesting legal discussion.
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