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The kid probably deserved it.

Wouldn't surprise me a bit if he did, though the teens and adults were more trouble for costumed characters when I was several Warner characters at one park.

I was slugged in the temple so hard I saw stars, no joke, my first day out as Daffy by some guy because I tipped his cap as I ran by.

Another time I was pushed onto the tracks of a coaster by some jerk who thought I, as Bugs Bunny, was hitting on his girl. (I *am* a girl but was playing the part).

Once I was doing the pre-opening welcome outside the gates dressed as Sylvester for the crowds waiting to enter the park. I was grabbed, shoved and then encircled until I fell down where I was kicked and punched repeatedly by a MOB of somewhere between 5 and 10 people all belonging to a church youth group.

And the gang members? Wow. They want us to make gang signs with them in group pictures. We'd mime the excuse we only had 4 fingers not 5 so couldn't do it. This was in the late 80s so Crips & Bloods were the ones we were saying "NO" to. Wee!

Shortly after I left that job, a friend & coworker was picked up and thrown on an ATM machine while dressed as Sylvester. Her back was broken & she had multiple surgeries and ended up suing the company for lack of protection. I think they settled with her. Probably the most dangerous job I ever worked. :)

I recall seeing many of the characters in theme parks having another uncostumed (but in uniform) park employee escorting them, to help them negoitate around obstacles that were obviously out of their field of vision due to the costume. I bet another reason they were with them was to protect them from idiots like this kid.

What I saw in the video was a punk-a$$ kid trying to give the guy inside the suit a hard time. His younger siblings obviously wanted a photo with Tigger but their idiotic brother had to go and screw things up. I think Tigger reacted aggressively (on instinct) at first by putting the kid's arm in a lock, but then I think he realized what he was doing because he clearly just pats the kid on the face. The kid then pats him back, grinning from ear to ear.

I think the dad was smelling the money and the kid is helping him along. Like father, like son, I suppose.

Wow, I'm happy you got out of there alive. When I was a kid, I worked a couple summers at Universal Studios in southern California, and they always had some costumed characters roaming the premises. Never saw anything that bad, but I would imagine they all had some run-ins. And I would imagine that the overall behaviour of the kids today is worse than back then. As I said before, I hope Tigger smacked him good, because he probably deserved it!!!