"Adam Sandler" Accused of Terrorizing Community In Cookie Monster Costume
NY Post- Can you tell me how to get far, far away from Sesame Street? Santa Cruz residents have been instructed not to engage with a man dressing as Cookie Monster, who police say has been yelling obscenities and taunting locals enjoying a stroll along the California coastal city’s boardwalk.
Santa Cruz police say the “Sesame Street”‘ wannabe has been harassing parents to pay him to pose in photos with their children. “We are getting calls from people who say he is ‘creepy,'” police spokeswoman Joyce Blaschke said in a Wednesday statement to The Post. “Based on his history, we advise the public to not engage with this individual. Steer clear from him.”
Santa Cruz police confirmed to The Post that the suspect’s name is Adam Sandler, 59, with no relation to the “Uncut Gems” star. Police noted that Sandler has not committed a crime in Santa Cruz as of Tuesday. Blaschke declined to confirm if Sandler is the so-called Evil Elmo who was accused of harassing NYC tourists a decade ago.
I'm sorry I couldn't help myself. It's a different Adam Sandler. But when you're a blogger in the Barstool Sports division of PENN Entertainment, and the New York Post presents you with an article about a man named Adam Sandler who is terrorizing his community in a Cookie Monster costume, it's in my contract that I must title the blog, "Adam Sandler Accused of Terrorizing Community in Cookie Monster Costume." I chickened out and put quotes around "Adam Sandler" in the title to make it slightly less clickbaity. I didn't want to end up on the Sandman's bad side. Still, I apologize, but I don't make the rules. Don't hate the player hate the game.
Anyways, the guy is apparently named Adam Sandler, he wears a Cookie Monster costume, and allegedly harasses families in Santa Cruz, California. His goal is to try and get get them to pay money to take a picture with their children. He's known for yelling obscenities, taunting locals, and many have called him "creepy". What the cops should really do is watch him from afar, and arrest any parents who allow Cookie Monster to put his arm around their children for a pic.
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Before he was a Santa Cruz Cookie Monster, people say he was a Times Square Elmo. As Elmo, he was known for going on "anti-Semitic diatribes", and was thrown in jail for threatening to "extort the Girl Scouts." He admitted to the crime, but said he will NEVER apologize to the Girl Scouts.
I have some experience with street Elmos myself. One time I went to Las Vegas with my friend in my "addicted to drugs" days. We asked a club promoter if we could find Percocets anywhere and he said the man in the Elmo costume on the Las Vegas Strip could hook us up. Problem is there were several Elmo's meandering around the city. So we just wandered around Las Vegas drinking Steel Reserve tall boys asking Elmo's for drugs. We did not succeed. That same trip I got ripped off for $400 by a shyster. Long story, but it involved him giving me a fake $1,000 chip as collateral. No excuse for that one. That's the second dumbest thing I've ever done. I've tried to block that entire trip out of my memory, but this Adam Sandler guy just sparked it. Fun times.
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