When Disney Characters Go Bad!
Every year in junior high, there would be a school trip to Great Adventure/Six Flags. And every year, my friends and I would always go to the Haunted House. And every time we went to the Haunted House and one of the costumed ghouls jumped out from behind a cage to try and scare us? We'd squirt him with a bottle of ketchup that we'd stolen from the concession stand.
Although I feel guilty about it now, in the interest of full disclosure, I have to admit that it was pretty fucking funny. The "ghouls" were usually college kids and they would get so fucking pissed off that a little 13-year-old squirted them with ketchup, they'd rattle the bars of the cages and start screaming, "I'm going to kick your fucking ass, you little shit." A few times, they ran after us but they were never able to "ketchup" (get it? ketch-up? da-dum-dum!)
I totally should have gotten my ass kicked by them. If any of those college kids had ever caught me, I would have taken my ass-whupping like a man and would have had no regrets about it. My parents taught me from a young age that actions have consequences. So if being a wise-ass punk cost me a beating, c'est la vie.
Anyway, I was thinking about this today because I just found this awesome video of Pluto at Disneyland totally losing his cool because some little kid kicked him in the nuts. Check it out:
Man, if I were Pluto, I would have done the same thing. Wouldn't you?
Bonus material: Tigger smacking a teenager and dealing with the consequences.

I don't think he was actually kicked. Pluto always chases kids and plays fetch and other "dog" stuff. He's the only character I've ever seen engage the kids in that manner, but I see it every time. That lady should have been kicked.
Posted by:Whit | September 25, 2007 at 12:35 PM
If I were pluto, I would have bitten his legs off.
Posted by:creative-type dad | September 25, 2007 at 12:46 PM
One of my fondest Halloween memories from my teenage years was this one time when a friend and I went to a haunted house...not a real one, but the kind you pay admission to get into and there are dudes dressed like all manner of ghoul and ghost and serial killer. At one point in the depths of the house, we were chased down a hallway only to find ourselves in a room that had no apparent exit. From out of nowhere, a couple of guys in masks jump out with chainsaws a'buzzin. At that point, a curtain opens to reveal the exit, and I run for it, but my friend is stuck in place, screaming like a little girl because his pantsleg is caught on something and he can't get away from the big scary chainsaw men! Finally, they had to stop the chainsaws and one of them pulled off his mask, told my friend to stop shrieking, and unhooked his pantsleg from whatever it was caught on. It kind of spoiled the illusion, but it was funny as shit. My friend felt like an idiot and didn't want to talk about it.
Posted by:Holmes | September 25, 2007 at 02:05 PM
I would of went ape like ol' goofy there too. I don't know if I would of have done it, but it sure would of been funny if Goofy clotheslined that mom. I can just picture it in slow mo. That kid, if it were mine, would have been banned from Disney until he could afford to go on his own. I bet he hits the Walmart greeters too. What the hell is Goofy anyways? A horse?
Posted by:Joe | September 26, 2007 at 11:01 AM
Oh wait that is Pluto, he is dog, but the question still remains what is Goofy?
Posted by:Joe | September 26, 2007 at 11:03 AM