Quote of the Day

Posted by Chris Spags on October 26th, 2010 at 12:30 pm

Visitors to New York City’s Times Square are often greeted by people in costumes of beloved characters, available to take photos for a dollar or so. Unfortunately, one man dressed like Sesame Street character Elmo isn’t making any fans with his boorish behavior.

Batman and other regular characters in New York’s famed Times Square say they aren’t happy an aggressive Elmo has returned to bug tourists.

“He swears and curses. Times Square was better when he was gone,” the guy dressed as Batman told the New York Daily News after the surly Elmo returned from a hiatus of a few months.

Amanda Kelly-Knox told the Daily News: “I think it swore at me. I wasn’t going to let my daughter anywhere near it. I also think it kind of smelled.”

But the guy in the Elmo suit defended himself. “I’m not being rude,” he told the newspaper. “Taking an Elmo picture without paying is rude. It’s called making a living.”

Aggressive Elmo irks Times Square [UPI]

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