Last Saturday in the midst of Halloween craziness, one of the ubiquitous Times Square Cookie Monsters was stabbed in the back when he tried to break up a fight between a guy dressed up as a Tuskegee Airman and another man dressed as a Native American, the New York Postreports.
The trio reportedly collided on West 50th around 6 PM on Saturday night after the man in the pilot costume confronted the man wearing the Native American costume, deeming it offensive, and a fight between the two men broke out. When Christopher Ramos, the man in the Cookie Monster suit, stepped in to try and diffuse the brawl, the aviator allegedly pulled a knife from his shoe and plunged it through the Cookie Monster costume and into Ramos’s back.
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Ramos then went straight to the emergency room at Roosevelt Hospital after the tussle, but none of his injuries were life-threatening, according to an NYPD representative who spoke with Gothamist.
The NYPD—who are no strangers to witnessing meltdowns at the city’s tourist hotspot—are still looking for the short-tempered costumed pilot and the man dressed as a Native American.
