Something about the Tigger costume brings out the freak in Disney employees. This time, a man working inside the oven-like fur suit at the Disney MGM Studios in Orlando allegedly cracked a 14-year-old in the head. Lest there's any doubt about the nature of the mauling, the boy's father, Jerry Monaco of Greenville, New Hampshire, caught the incident on video, which should land on YouTube any minute now.

"At first, I was upset at my son," Monaco told AP. "I thought he did something to Tigger. But then I reviewed it, and it is pretty clear; for no reason, he just clocked him in the face."

Well, that's one side of the story. Another might be that a grown man earning around eight bucks an hour to breathe a toxic melange of his co-Tiggers' mouth vapors in a suit that heats up to 120 degrees in the Florida sun finally reached his breaking point.

Whatever sparked this latest bout of cartoon-on-kid violence, it's not the first time Tigger's wayward paws have landed him and his 100-Acre Wood posse in a pinch. After the jump, a look back ...

• 1976—A woman in a civil case accuses an actor dressed as one of the Three Little Pigs of assault and battery, false imprisonment, and humiliation, claiming he ran up to her near the "It's a Small World" ride at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and fondled her breasts while screaming "Mommy! Mommy!" Disney officials show pictures of the pig costume, which has no operable arms, and the suit never makes it to court.

• 1981—Christopher Robin's homeboy Winnie the Pooh faces a civil suit for allegedly backhanding a nine-year-old. In court, Pooh actor Robert Hill wins over the jury by donning the costume and dancing a lovable jig. He is cleared of all charges.

• August, 2004—Jury selection begins in the trial of a Tigger actor accused of groping a 13-year-old girl at Disney World. During the trial, defendant Michael Chartrand is forced to don his Tigger suit for the jury. He is eventually cleared and rehired by Disney.

• September, 2004—Back on the job in Orlando, Chartrand gets the cops called on him after allegedly shoving two Kodak employees (this time as Goofy.)

• 2005(ish)—Rumors circulate among hard-partying character players in Orlando that a pissed-off Pluto, fed up with hours of tugging and poking, turns around, kneels down, and quietly rebukes his man-handling tormentor through his plastic mask: "You ... fucking ... leave ... me ... alone."

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