"Charges against the Chicago Bulls' mascot for allegedly attacking an off-duty police officer during an outdoor festival in Chicago have been dropped.
Bulls officials said charges of misdemeanor battery and driving within a parkway were dropped against Barry Anderson, the Benny the Bull mascot. Police said Anderson, in his bright red bull costume. threw a punch at a sheriff's deputy on July 2, knocking off his glasses and breaking his watch. The mascot was riding a mini-motorcycle through the Taste of Chicago festival without a permit.
The charges were dropped on Friday, the day the case was scheduled to go to trial, a Bulls spokesperson said."
I wonder if the sheriff waved a red cape in front of the bull before his attack...
It's stories like this that almost make me ashamed of my two years spent as a mascot when I was a mere college boy.~Adam