In just two weeks, children will be skipping around neighborhoods looking for candy, and slightly older children and immature bros will be ready to scare the bejeezus out of them. In fact, it’s already happening in some places. As people decorate for the creepy holiday, there are plenty of decorations popping up that neighbors say have gone too far.
In particular, there’s a guy in Pittsburgh who taking heat for his incredibly creepy and kind of realistic yardwork. It’s something he does every year, and the neighbors are fed up with seeing disembodied heads on meat hooks and dismembered baby dolls covered in fake blood or stuffed in cages. Of course, he’s got all the graves and bones and all the other Halloweeny stuff. But neighbors say their kids are scared to walk by the house to catch the bus for school. It’s just too graphic.
But it seems like the season is getting creepier everywhere you go. Out in California, they’re being creeped out my menacing clowns. For some reason, clowns have started showing up in pictures posted online, some of them even carrying baseball bats, machetes, or guns. People have called the cops because they’re so scary, but they’re not breaking any laws.
This is the same culture that lead to horror shows like this one in California: an “amusement” being billed as the most extreme haunted house in the country. The creepers actually get to touch you, yell at you, even tie you up and put duct tape over your mouth. Not one single person has been able to complete it.
Which may all mean we’ve become desensitized to the idea that Halloween is basically a thing for kids. And drunk college kids. But still, terrorizing the neighborhood, maybe not such a good idea. Or maybe it’s just harmless fun, and people need to lighten up. Rance Adams hit the streets a little earlier to find out…
