YouTube hit: Pluto chases kid at Disneyland
The latest caught-on-tape, viral web phenom features Disneyland’s Pluto chasing a little boy around Main Street USA before an angry mother scolds the big fuzzy dog and shoves the costumed canine to the ground.
The YouTuber who posted the video wasn’t sure why Pluto gave chase, but said the character and his handler returned after the tape stopped rolling to discuss the incident with the pushy woman. More than 700,000 viewers have watched the clip.
The video gained traction with over 1,400 Diggs, where one commenter reported the mother said to Pluto “What’s your problem?” in Spanish and threatened to call security before a paw-pointing Pluto leveled an assault accusation against the boy. (I, myself, couldn’t make out any of the audio.)
From there, the video spread via the mainstream media with the Los Angeles CBS station feeding affiliates nationwide and MSNBC suggesting “the little bugger kicked Pluto in his planets.” The requisite parody followed to the tune of Benny Hill’s TV theme song.
Tell us your amusement park character abuse story.
— Brady MacDonald / L.A. Times Staff Theme Park Blogger
[Photo: Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times]
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September 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Maybe the kid kicked Goofy in the trophy?
September 28th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
So typical that parents let their rug rats do anything and then act like it isn’t a big deal when it happens. Solution…haul the parents to jail.
September 29th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Jail? You’re serious?
That’s Goofy!
September 29th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Frankly ,the mom and the kid should be shot- summary execution, right?
October 1st, 2007 at 8:55 pm
maybe they should put stocks in frontierland for all of the misbehaving parents and their little monsters
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
In the first frame a young girl has her mouth covered - I think she may have seen what happened. Wish someone wittnessing the incident would report in. Disney characters are “tame”, the little guy must have done something totally uncalled for. otherwise, Goofy would not have chased him.
Parents need to supervise their children–easier said than done in a crowded place like Disneyland.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
I heard the kid hit Pluto in the balls. They should have thrown both the mother and the boy out of the park and never let them return.