Mascot abuse is becoming a big problem in this country. The San Diego Chicken has been threatened. There was that giant Sausage thing in Milwaukee that the ball player hit with a bat, the Cookie Monster attack, and now this. I know many people who have harbored homicidal thoughts toward "Rowdy", that stupid idiot with the big foam cowboy hat at Dallas Cowboy games. Even when I was a teenager it was a problem. I was hired to dress up in a clown suit and try to wave people in to a hamburger joint on a busy street one Saturday. Every old fart over the age of forty shot me the finger as he drove by.
I say it is time for a new civil rights law to protect Costumed Characters. It should be a Hate Crime to abuse, threaten or harass a Costumed Character, regardless of color, species, animation status, or studio affiliation. Why can't we just all get along?
Mascot abuse is becoming a big problem in this country. Maybe it's a side-effect of them looking like cartoons. C'mon, you can't REALLY hurt a big (padded) Telly, can you?
"I say it is time for a new civil rights law to protect Costumed Characters. It should be a Hate Crime to abuse, threaten or harass a Costumed Character, regardless of color, species, animation status, or studio affiliation. Why can't we just all get along?" OK, I can get behind this along as their is an clause stated very clearly that this law does not cover Mimes!
Mimes should be beaten on a regular basis, until they are wiped from the face of the earth!