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Tigger mortis

It seems that Disney's Tigger has been assaulting theme park guests.

It's great footage (and there's another version on youtube if, like me, you can't get this one to work). First, teenager puts arm round Tigger. Next Tigger 'hits' the kid.

Well, actually it's a bit disappointing. The papers talk about Tigger punching the kid, but it's barely a tap.

And as the kid and his Dad say, it was entirely unprovoked.

Yeah right. The man playing Tigger (yep, sorry kids, it's a man. Also, there's no Santa) just up and whacks a kid for no reason, entirely out of the blue.

Let's look at that footage again. Ah, it actually looks rather like the kid has in fact done something that makes the tiger startle and turn. And anyway, he's a teenage boy, of course he's a prick who deserves to be punched.

Oh, but the man says his lad is innocent. "I looked at the footage again and I saw that he just hit my son out of the blue."

Is that right Mr Dad? Or was your son's arm entirely hidden behind the tiger in the footage. It was wasn't it?

So what could it have been you saw on the footage replay? Could it have been a generous out of court settlement? COULD IT?

He's bouncy, flouncy, punchy, angry, run run run run run.

posted by Peter The Great @ 8:52 PM