New this fall in NYC: Shake Me Down Elmo

More than likely this Elmo won't be a big seller at Christmas. A surly Elmo, who is said to be quite effervescent and swears like a sailor (and who Johnny saw on his way to the MoMA a couple weeks ago) has been darkening sidewalks around Times Square. The New York Daily News had reported of this bad Elmo back in 2009 and apparently he's still around. According to reports:

"(Elmo was) ...aggressively courting tourists' cash for pictures, and cursing them out when they refused to pay up. He even lunged at the Daily News photographer who snapped his picture..."

Elmo, when cornered said to a reporter he wasn't rude at all, in fact it's the other people being rude to him:

"I'm not being rude. Taking an Elmo picture without paying is rude..."

And we thought Bert was evil