A man dressed as video game
character Super Mario has been arrested for
allegedly groping a woman in
New York City's Times Square making the second
arrest of a character in
months.
Damon Torres, 34, of North
Bergen, New Jersey, was charged with forcible
touching on Wednesday after
first allegedly blocking the woman's path, an
NYPD spokesman said.
Police say Torres, disguised
in the full-body red and blue costume, grabbed
the 58-year-old woman's thigh
in front of 4 Times Square, also known as the
Conde Nast building, before
walking away.
This wasn't the woman's first
alleged encounter with the man according to
the victim.
'She said she had similar
encounters with the character. She said she was
offended,' a Times Square
Alliance security guard who assisted the woman
told the New York Daily News
The woman notified police
officers, who arrested Torres at the famous
tourist attraction.
Torres - who according to his
Facebook page played as an extra in the
Batman Dark Knight Rises
movie - was also charged with marijuana possession.
But Mario's arrest was not
the first for the otherwise cuddly-looking
characters that swarm Times
Square posing with tourists for pictures for
tips - nor in recent months.
In September a red-suited
Elmo was angrily hauled off in handcuffs after
allegedly yelling
anti-Semitic rants at passersby.
That man’s arrest, identified
as 48-year-old Adam Sandler - not the
comedian - followed a similar
one in Central Park which led to his
hospitalization for a
psychiatric evaluation.
Sandler was last seen out
west in California, performing similar rants in a
San Francisco park as SFGate
reported
with the caption: 'Run, don't
walk, if you see this man.'
Yet not altogether
with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or
with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world
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But now I have
written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be
a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
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