Posted on 01/08/2007 7:10:02 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
Well...A Tigger's gotta do what Tigger's do best!
In that first picture I posted it looks like the kid is laughing.
Tigger was set-up.
This family wants $$$$!
Yeah. In the video, it looks like the kid has a tigth grip around Tigger's waist...there is soem jerking going on. Who knows?
When I read this story yesterday I thought the kid was a younger boy; that kid looks like he can hold his own against the evil Tigger.
I bet that kid grabbed Tiggers rear end or something like that, thinking he was being funny, but like you said who knows.
Exactly what I'm thinking.
It looked to me like the kid was still smiling after Tigger hit his face - which wasn't really a hit but more of an accidental push.
If that's true, Disney will nail them. They get hit by Gypsies all the time (set up rapes at the hotels and parking lots, hurt on rides, etc). Most people aren't aware of it but Disney has it's own police force that is probably better than the FBI.
Hard to tell what's going on between photos 1 and 2 from the link.
Photo one looks like the teenage has his wrist between the Tigger actor's right bicep and his ribs, second photo looks like the teen is pulling something from behind Tigger, the rest of the photos appear to show Tigger only having a degree of freedom with his left arm crossing over his body to distract the teen whom he might not be able to see from within the outfit.
That's what it looks like in the video
Sure looks like the kid (hardly)was screwing with tigger, and probably set up by dad. The family (who look retarded) seem to know it about to happen.
Why is the kid wearing gloves like a streetfighter?
That kid's too big to be messing with a cartoon character.
And where's the handler? The person in the costume can't see anything that's going on around him. And the handler is supposed to make sure nobody grabs the costume because it can easily choke the character or knock them off balance.
It certainly doesn't look from the pictures like the character really punched him, it looks like the character tried to shove him away. Note the character can't move, there's a family with young children in front of him, a fence behind him, and a mother to the other side. If the kid pushes at all, tigger is going to fall over the mother and cause real damage.
I bet tigger told the kid to let go of him several times, and when the kid wouldn't let go, he pushed him to get him off of him.
They other thing I'm thinking is how fast this family ran to the police and called the media with this
"A tigger is a tigger".
I cast my vote for Tigger.
I suspect Disney and amusement parks in generally have found it less expensive to play along with the fraud than to initially counter it. If it progresses and goes further, then they start to pull out the big guns.
IMHO, it ain't about righteousness, it's about business, and entertainment in this country is a big business.
I also note the perspective of the family,...nothing offered by the park is good enough,..no they want the actor to come out and apologize. Heck, since they don't know who the actor is, just get that in writing and send in another contrite tearful actor.
Yeah, your son is probably a real angel. *eye roll*
On the advice of his lawyer, no doubt.
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