Spotted: Sad Panda Walking Downtown

He was in his usual spot by the bull statue around noon today. It was nice to see him since the rain has been keeping him away lately.

I NEED more sad Panda! Who's seen him lately?

Another chapter in the cult of the Sad Panda:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxcHsQkHODo

hehehe aWWWWWWWW

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^^Astonishing how intriging this is to those above. It's like a cult of "Sad Panda" watchers and diarists. Horrific.

We spotted Sad Panda by Times Square about a month ago. (He must have been exploring outside his usual habitat.) Couldn't resist taking a photo and posting it on our blog for kids, asking them to suggest captions for the pic. Check it out: http://blog.scholastic.com/ink_splot_26/2009/02/create-a-caption.html

The first time I spotted Sad Panda was 1/05/09 and I have been fixated ever since.

Also documented recently here:

http://culturalcapitol.com/2009/03/05/the-saddest-job-in-new-york-city/

Also documented recently here:

http://culturalcapitol.com/2009/03/05/the-saddest-job-in-new-york-city/

The first picture is just awesome.

That panda is not sad: he's just trying to hustle a few bucks from tourists in lower Manhattan. For the past few weeks, he (I assume he's a he) has parked himself at the north end of Bowling Green, near the statue of the charging bull, whose testicles every tourist seems to want to fondle. He offers to pose for photos with those clueless tourists and asks them to throw a few coins in a cup.

Perhaps he's a former AIG employee, I don't know.

finally someone else else took notice .

chop one else

My blog called this first:

http://pandaspandaseverywhere.blogspot.com/

Documented here on 1/5/09 (first column)

http://www.vworks.info/1pictaday/january_01.html

I showed sad panda before Culture Capitol!

http://www.alixpiorun.com/goodtime/2009/02/16/20/

I figured it was just someone getting in the mood for some furry Valentine's Day fun

Ours followed shortly thereafter!

http://mjhstaff.blogspot.com/2009/02/downtown-pandamonium.html

Sad Panda is just asking to be Photoshopped.

Go to it Internets.

you think the panda is sad?

how about every tourist that puts their head up the bull's butt?

Great. A Japanese busker. -rolls eyes-

There's nothing worse than a wannabe panda with an agenda.

Poor Panda!

The best thing to cheer him up would be the music of Post Panda!

www.post-panda.com

Join the Post Panda-monium!

Must be a bear market ---- for China. If the panda starts dumping dollars all over the place, watch out.

Pedo bear in disguise.

With all the arrows flying around the city ?

That's funny, I work right there and I never see him...

I seen him come out of a bathroom stall fully suited at Variety Cafe...

If I am seeing right, those are two left-handed gloves. Is that some sort of signal?

That he's gay?

i like this lil nugget

Poor Panda!

The best thing to cheer him up would be the music of Post Panda!

http://www.post-panda.com

Join the Post Panda-monium!

he better have a flask in there to keep up his spirits

I'm just surprise he can breath in that thing for 8 hrs busking without even taking it off on his way home.

I think he first popped up on/ or around 1/9/09 thats the first time I seen him around the bull, since then he's been around at least once every week. I only study him from a distance, being sure not to disturb his natural habitat.

The first time I spotted Sad Panda was 1/05/09 and I have been fixated ever since.

Bamboo doesn't grow on trees! He's gotta do what he can to make bank.

I saw this guy on the subway at rush hour a couple months ago. Needless to say, nobody particularly noticed or cared. Gotta love New York.

Yeah He is usally always by the bull, Sometimes he doesnt leave until after 6. He is not there today however.

maybe he forsee's the "pandamonium" of the street crankiness this summer!

ba dum bum!

Definitely looks like a busker. I'm having fun imagining Sad Panda Busker getting into turf wars with the Statue of Liberty Busker or Tin Man Busker.

Any different than Elmo and Bugs hanging out on 42nd street?

http://gothamist.com/2008/03/30/elmo.php

Personally, i think the economy has gotten so bad that people dressing up in costume characters to ask for "donation" like those "superheroes" who hang out in front of Chinese Grauman Theater.

Sexual Harassment Panda got laid off again...

that makes me a very saaaadd panda :'(

'Don't-sue-people-panda'.

Redefining "walk of shame."

Looks like a Trigger Happy TV skit waiting to happen.

Is it the start of Pandamonium?

Thanks for the NSFW shout on the first link : (

Yeah, and bare ass full of cellulite should get a NSFW for sure.

You really think that ass is full of cellulite? What the hell kind of girls do you like, skeletons?

I am a woman, so yes, I consider that an ass full of cellulite.

As a woman, I'd hate to be your friend if that's what you consider an ass full of cellulite.

furries!

Win!

Please please please don't be an advertisement.

i work downtown and see this panda almost everyday. it's always hanging out at "the bull" by battery park. never sure what his/her purpose was, but it seems that people pay to take pics with it.

Ewww, a plushies reference? Yuck!

Jen stop kissing up to Jen.

This panda must die.