There is a reason they put "caution" signs on the side of the road.
Granted, Victor Aguilar wasn't driving. Instead, he was at Safeco Field where, he claims, the Mariner Moose, the team's mascot, assaulted him when he tried to get a picture with a family member, Seattle's Komo News reports.
"I was going to go like this [showing an embracing arm] to take a picture with him [the Mariner Moose] when he pushed me out of the way, and hit my arm and neck, and hit my stomach," he told Komo News.
Aguilar just had disc replacement surgery, the scar still fresh on his stomach, so the incident caught him off guard and also left him in serious pain.
"I was like, 'What's going on?' " he said. "There were more people there, and they were like, 'What's his deal? Why'd he do that to you?' "
The stadium first aid crew asked him whether he would like to go to a hospital, but feeling that he would be all right, Aguilar asked only for ice to put on his scar.
The pain subsided shortly after, only to return at the end of the game, prompting Mariners personnel to take him out of the ballpark in a wheelchair and make a hospital visit after all.
The Mariners offered Aguilar a free ticket to the next game, but the incident left him with a sour taste. He declined the offer and questioned whether his loyalty to the team may be over.
"I don't want to get any money out of this," he said. "I just want them to pay my bill, discipline the Moose, and do a little more investigation. Maybe he was drunk, on drugs, who knows the way he was acting."
According to Aguilar, he may be done with Mariners baseball.
"I don't wanna go back," he said.
There was no word on the status of the Moose.
