Characters dressed up as the Cookie Monster and Elmo from Sesame Street stand in Times Square while waiting to pose for photographs with people for tips in New York April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTXYF7F (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton, File)
A man clad in a Cookie Monster costume was stabbed Saturday night in Midtown when he intervened in a fight between a man wearing a Tuskegee Airman ensemble and a man dressed as an American Indian, police sources said.
Muppet-sheathed Christopher Ramos, 24, was knifed in the back by the unnamed aviator, who had been arguing with the insensitively-adorned partier over the offensive costume, the source said.
After proclaiming he was “offended” by the get-up, the 30-year-old airman whipped a knife out of his boot and lodged it in the back of the friendly cookie-fiend around 6:00p.m., Ramos told cops.
The cast of characters – some of whom were part of the gaggle that gather in Times Square seeking tips for photos – collided outside of 218 west 50th Street, the sources said.
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