Giant Inflatable... Monkey?

I went to work the other day and immediately saw a guy outside passing out yellow flyers of some kind. Having lived in New York for a couple months now, I've become completely endoctrinated against accepting any bullshit flyer that anyone passes out on the street. Mike and I were talking a while ago about how you start to get really dismissive and somewhat "cold" here, and just start automatically tuning out everyone you don't know who is soliciting or asking anything.

He told me about this blind guy on the street who was saying "Someone, please help, blind... please help me," and how he passed the guy by (instinctively recognizing it as some kind of scam). I bring that up not to make Mike seem like a bad person (I would have done the exact same thing, ignored the guy and made sure my wallet was where I left it), but to illustrate how you get desensitized to this kind of thing.

I didn't take the flyer, and actually remember thinking "is that guy allowed to do that on our property?" Eventually, I saw one of the flyers in the elevator and saw that it was about how someone died in our building of asbestos.

Indifferent New Yorker thing #2: I immediately assumed that was impossible, implausable, and stupid because I didn't know about it. Far be it for some random guy with a giant, inflatable rat, monkey, gorilla... tell me a bunch of lies.

Oh, did I not mention the giant inflatable monster thing outside with him? Here it is:

Honestly, is it a rat or a gorilla? Please, if you know leave something in the comments. I'll have to investigate this asbestos thing more.