Man dressed as Cookie Monster in N.Y. shoves toddler, charged
A monster of a man dressed up as the Cookie Monster is alleged to have shoved a toddler, and shouted rudely at a family, when they didn't tip him quickly enough after he posed for a photo with their son. The man has been charged with endangering a child.
This went down in New York's Times Square on Sunday after the man police have identified as Queens resident Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez picked up the family's child and entreated them to take the photo. The father went to get money from a bank machine and the mother, who the New York News reports is Bollywood film star and model, Parmita Kurada (nee Katka), snapped a shot.
Cookie Monster a monster
She didn't have money and the Quiroz-Lopez got very frustrated, very quickly. The following day in court, court papers filed said he yelled out the following to Kurada: “You are a bitch, your son is a bastard and your stuff is trash." Hearing that, and with her husband still at the bank machine, Kurada was afraid for her and her son's safety.
“He (the Cookie Monster) was right next to me saying, ‘Come on, come on! Give me the money!’ ” Kurada told the News. “I was getting scared. I thought he was going to attack me or he was going to hit me.” Quiroz-Lopez, 33, did not hit her, instead he shoved her son; police said the boy, a toddler, wasn't knocked down but was frightened badly.
Times Square: Trouble with characters
Times Square is awash with people dressed up as characters from kid's movies and TV shows trying to get money by posing for photos with kids. There have been accusations of these 'characters' being overly aggressive prior to the Cookie Monster incident, including characters hugging attractive women who haven't given their permission and characters holding on to children until parents give them money.
At Times Square in just over a year there's been an anti-Semitic Elmo with a questionable past, a Super Mario who grabbed a woman's breasts and a Spider Man who punched a Mom. The Cookie Monster in question is being charged with child endangerment and one count of aggressive begging; his bail has been set at $1,000.
Kurada's son has since expressed his dislike for the Cookie Monster
i am the taco monster 
