Amen to that:)

I think the kid was doing something . . . bratty. Just look at that teenageer's IthinkIamsocool smirk on his face before Tigger stoppedwhatever.

Haven't watched the video but they were teasing it a lot on the local Orlando news on Saturday.

I just assumed that the kid did something he wasn't supposed to do. That said, if the person in Tigger retaliated at all, they should be fired or reassigned to a position with no interaction with the public.

Yes, people do really rude things to the costumed characters (and even non-costumed CMs) but you don't get to retaliate. Life's not fair sometimes.

In the video, it doesn't look like Tigger retaliated so much as made a move to separate him/herself from the kid and in doing so, accidentally made incidental contact with the kid's head. You can't see if the kid is doing something painful, or just reaching for the costume's zipper or something, but I don't see anything more than an attempt to disengage from the guest.

Then odds are nothing will come of it.

In Orlando they hyped it all day in their news teaser. So we stayed up to watch the local news (and I don't even watch the local news for my own local) and when the story came it was:

"Dad said hours later that Tigger assaulted his kid. They haven't answered our calls, nor have they turned over the video. But do you remember that a couple years ago we got to make a lot of jokes about Tigger when he was accused (and acquitted) of groping some woman. We'll show you video of that."

Literally (that's for you Jennie), if presented with the opportunity to eradicate local news programs or child rape from the planet I would have to think for a few moments.

I'd feel bad for all those raped children, but at least we'd never hear "is breathing killing you right now? More at 11" again.

I have serious douts that Tigger hit that kid at all. Look at the film again: the childs head goes back and to the left. Slow the film down and look at it frame by frame -- back and to the left, back and to the left. Entirely inconsistent to that sort of thwacking. Ask me and I say, that dog don't hunt!

We have to ask ourselves -- who would benefit from this child being thwacked by a man in a tiger outfit?

Figure that out and we have our answer.

Are you implying that we, the viewers, would order this particular Tigger hit?

Why, I am outraged at the mere suggestion....oh, looky- there goes Mark Foley!

(runs away)

ACK! That's the second or third time you've given me crap for that! I retaliate thusly!

:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

That's not a COSTUME or a ZIPPER - that's the REAL TIGGER.

Jeez...

The real Tigger can talk.