Have you ever been involved in an altercation with a 'character'?

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An argument with someone doing promotional work dressed as a giant tomato, for instance? Or a fight with someone in the chip shop wearing fancy dress?

My youngest daughter was - rather terrifyingly, for her - chased down Main Street in Disneyland Paris by Goofy.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)

in my first yr at uni I had to walk past BBC Bristol on my way home from lectures so saw lots of famousish ppl eg Terry Nutkins (sadly not avec sealion) and Derek Thomson (Charlie in Casulaty) on a regular basis. On one occasion this GIANT GORILLA holding a red bucket appeared in front of me and wouldn't let me past. "Why?" I thought. I wanted to get home, and fast. But then the ape grunted and gestured to a red bucket he was holding. He was collecting cash for Children in Need which was on that day.

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

it is ironic that those giant Disney characters are supposed to be friendly and cuddly when in fact they are big and scary!

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:30 (eighteen years ago)

...but then maybe they are the Disney Corporation in microcosm....

― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

a jagermeister deer customed dude stole my beer at the bar the other day and then rubbed my head with his big paws to say sorry. not so much an altercation, but still weird.

― jergincito, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

does a topless dancer count as a 'character'?

('perving' is not part of the scenario, before you ask!)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 09:24 (eighteen years ago)

A friend and I were once chatted up by Wolfie (mascot of Wolverhampton Wanderers) and the Beacon Bear (mascot of Beacon FM - local Wolverhampton radio station).

I very much enjoyed my univeristy friend Gnanika deciding to drunkenly tell another friend's boyfriend what a twat he was (she was right on this piont). In a take away. Whilst dressed as a belly dancer. Watched by a giggling flapper girl (me) and Snow White (my friend Heather).

― Anna, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I was bitten in the arm by one of the Budweiser Clydesdales. But I wouldn't really call them "characters".
I had to wear a fake conehead (not that there are real ones) to promote "Conehead: The Movie" while waiting tables and cocktail waitressing in a big comedy club - an Improv. I guess I was the 'character' in that scenario. No actual altercations ensued, but I was definitely moody about the whole thing, and felt like punching someone.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

a kid kicked me in my paw/boot once when I was dressed as hello kitty.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

professionally dressed as Hello Kitty?

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

I worked at a Sanrio store. It was either Halloween or Kitty's Birthday, I don't remember.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's probably good not to remember. But ILX does provoke us!

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

This thread reminds me of that sketch from Big Train.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

A minor-league baseball mascot slapped me on the head last summer. This bastard:

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― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Tom from Tom and Jerry copped a feel from my then-girlfriend on a ferry to Holland.

― chap, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

You should have bit his tail and watched his teeth and eyes come out in an expression of pain!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

As an seven-year-old, I got put in a headlock by The Wheedle (Seattle Supersonics mascot).
I probably deserved it.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

I made a shirt which reads, in iron-on, MILES DAVIS IS GOD.

I was once followed for four blocks by your garden variety Street Corner Doomsayer who was pointing at me and screaming GOD IS GOD! GOD IS GOD!! GOD IS GOD!!

For FOUR BLOCKS, people.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Or hit him in the face with a frying pan, and watched his head become frying-pan-shaped.

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

awesome.
vis ref:
http://www.robinjames.net/Wheedle.jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

At Glasto 2005 we sat in a sunny field watching some small children attempt to fight off a gang of ninjas. One of the kids hit a ninja with his plastic sword. Happy times.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I don't like that they put the moral of the story on the FRONT of the book - isn't that just ruining the whole point of reading it?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

"THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IS:

Cooperation can solve almost any problem."

Talk about ruining the suspense.

― Michael White, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

It is more like an abstract or executive summary.

― Ed, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Well, if your story is called "Wheedle on the Needle" and your cover features a furry in a seductive pose in a field of poppies, maybe you better be up-front about "morals."

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Don't know if this counts but my friends and I were accosted by two girls and a guy dressed up as cow-girls (and cowboy respectively) - they were trying to get us into Buffalo Joes, we were drunk and lairy and told them we wouldn't be seen dead in there.

The girls got a bit annoyed and came marching across the street doing the aggresive pointy shouty thing, thankfully our taxi arrived and we escaped.

― rumpie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

my ex got chased around disneyworld by chip and dale, who kept grabbing him and rubbing his face and hair and like trapping him between their stomachs. it was hilarious but thing was that dude was unhinged paranoid schizophrenic and that resulted in such a weird freak-out later that evening that somehow involved rasputin so i kind of have a vendetta against chip and dale.

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

That definitely counts.

― aimurchie, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

My aunt got hit on by chuck e cheese at my birthday

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

did he at least take his head off?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

chuck e. cheese is animatronic???

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

only the one on the stage!

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

1992, at a birthday party for a mutual crush, after talking the staff out of kicking us out for inhaling all the helium from a bunch of balloons we didn't buy, one of my best friends (now a tax attorney), Tyler, just takes off running from right by the front door of the place directly towards the back (where the "stage" is), leaps into the air and tackles the shit out of Chuck E Cheese.

It turns out the person in the Chuck E suit was a total fucking babe, 19 (we were all 14), who ended up going out on the first of many dates with Tyler the next night (every crew has their smooth operator, right).

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot imagine going out with a 14-yr-old when I was 19.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

daaaaamn

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

nick wins thread.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Tyler wins life.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

otm

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

question is did he make her keep the suit on?

― blueski, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

second question : did he have to inhale helium before every date with her?

― C J, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

third question: how much time did she do?

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

dear nicka,

i don't actually buy your story for one second. i guess it is slightly more plausible due to where you live but c'mon, dude.

thanks and hugs,
ally

― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

damn you this thread!

now i think if i see a 'character', i'd want to start an altercation with it, just so to be able to post here.

― ken c, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Overhead at SXSW interactive week before last:

There was this huge ass Easter bunny promoting some Wiki thing. A few paces away there was some dude dressed like a video game character (complete with a liberty spikes wig) getting his picture taken by some attendees. Camera guy snaps and says "Dammit, the fucking bunny got in the picture."

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

i argued with someone on ilm once, if that's what you mean

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I went to a bathroom in a Sam's Club as a chi8ld, and out of the next stall came a woman in a rubber duck mascot suit with the head of the costume removed. Seing sweatyhair ducklady really unsettled me.

― Abbott, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Tyler was one of those guys who matured early, deep voice, every morning shave, 5 o'clock shadow by 9 am in 9th grade. Even though he was (and still is) very short he could (and did) often pass for much older than he was. He eventually also became our buy-us-alcohol guy.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Tyler: future president of the United States.

Hard to imagine what could be more traumatic to a child's sense of the world than a familiar "character" acting "out of character."

― fife, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Also FWIW she broke up with him shortly after she found out how old he really was.

― nickalicious, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

haha, no shit! Otherwise she'd have been the teacher making the perp walk on tv a few years later for being impregnated by one of her students.

― Ms Misery, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuA0La81y3k

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

i totally believe nick's story. 19-year-old girls desperate enough for money to work as chuck e. cheese are clearly potential sluts waiting to happen.

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

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