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People really can be rude to costumed characters.

I made Sylvester and Tweety costumes for my daughter and her friend one time ... they wore them in the local Christmas parade and were poked, punched, shoved
and harassed...til my daughter (Sylvester) shoved a big kid right back. He was shocked!

People really can be rude to costumed characters.

If it's not halloween, or there are no kids close by, costumed characters MUST be tormented. It's a man thing. We torment costumed characters and wives... and cashiers in foodmarts, librarians, waitresses, flight attendants, ... actually most everything (according to my wife)

"People really can be rude to costumed characters.
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They sure can. One year my wife worked part-time at a state fair, wearing a large, awkward, hot peacock costume for a local TV station. After the first day, she told me that she'd been kicked, punched, and knocked down several times by drunken men at the fair.

So, the next day, and each day following, I accompanied her quietly around the fairgrounds. She was right. Several times, guys approached this character and started in on her. She wasn't supposed to speak, as the character, so it usually began with some sort of taunting. Then it started to progress to pushing or shoving.

That's where I stepped in. Each time it happened, I stepped in, told the drunk that my wife was in that costume and that he needed to move off and leave the character alone.

Just one guy chose me out after I did this. The rest just swore at me and moved on. The one guy, though, wasn't so fortunate. I let him take a swing at me, dodged it, then beat the crap out of him. Lots of witnesses saw him start the fight, and nobody got arrested or anything.

I had to do this for two weeks while my wife worked that job, and dealt with dozens of drunken buttheads.

So, if you're reading this and thinking about harassing some costumed character, remember that it's usually a woman inside, and her husband just may be following her around.