What started out as a happy Disney World family vacation turned into a terrifying scene for one New Hampshire family yesterday. While posing for a photograph with Tigger, Jerry Monaco Jr. was unceremoniously struck in the face with an open paw from Winnie the Pooh’s bouncy pal.

“I couldn’t believe it,” said the teenager. “I was just standing there minding my own business and out of nowhere ‘Wham!’, he belted me in the mouth! Not cool.”   

Although he does not doubt that an attack occurred, at least one costumed cartoon character expert doubts the validity of Monaco’s version of events.

“Look, I’ve worked with adults who wear cartoon character costumes for a living for over twenty-five years,” said Disney World’s operations director Dalton Flanders. “And there is one salient fact that you need to remember about them- they are adults who wear cartoon character costumes for a living. They put up with an inordinate amount of crap from people, especially teenage boys, on a daily basis. Did Tigger cuff the Monaco kid? The video doesn’t lie. Was he provoked? Let’s just say that that cotton candy stick didn’t just crawl up Tigger’s ass on it’s own.”

An Orlando Police official said such incidents are fairly common.

“Such incidents are fairly common,” said an Orlando Police official.

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