The giant walking watermelon in Copley Square
By adamg - 8/16/06 - 7:25 am
Michael Burstein continues his Copley Square swag reporting by noting that the humidity meant yesterday was not the best day for somebody in a watermelon suit to be walking around handing out gum:
... There were a few people hanging around the water in bright pinkish-red T-shirts, wearing caps and carrying tote bags, clearly filled with some sort of swag. So as usual, for you, my gentle readers, I approached the watermelon and picked up some swag. (Surprisingly, they weren't handing things out very aggressively.) ...

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Watermelon Guy!!
I saw that guy in dwntown xing last week! The guy in the suit was a little weird, he kept making the melon move up and down on his body so it like shrugging... hard to explain, but it looked a wee bit obscene... I didn't take the gum... I never take candy from strangers, and this guy was definitely strange! Sorry if you're reading this watermelon man!
It might not have been the
It might not have been the same guy in the suit -- was he with a bunch of other people? In this case, the guy in the suit wasn't handing out the gum, everyone else was.