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None of those other items that you listed are designed solely to be used to make unsuspecting people believe that they and their families lives may be at risk.
A product designed to trick someone into thinking that a criminal is looking in their window is a horrible idea. It has nothing to do with the "pussification" of America as you put it.
Neither is this one. It takes a person to put it on SOMEONE ELSES window who is UNSUSPECTING.
...solely to be used to make unsuspecting people believe...
People, people, people! Practical jokes are intended to be played on your friends, not "the elderly" or a random single mom down the street!
The fact that so many people feel the need to control others by banning practical jokes because "they might get out of hand or use poor judgment", that's the scary part here.
It's really the responsibility of the prankster to choose their victim wisely. Your roommates, your brother, your cousin, would all be likely targets. Grandma, your pregnant wife, or the village idiot would be unwise targets.
The images are scrupulously Caucasian and blue-eyed, so I fail to see what the problem is.
Damn snowflakes are so uptight nowadays.
this. i was going to say this. i would imagine that anyone that would try to trick someone with this gag would know that the person they are tricking would be able to handle it. they wouldn't put it on grandma's window or a neighbor that they do not know. but maybe would try to get a scare out of their roommate or brother, etc.
I didn't say "strictly" for children. I'm sure you're intelligence enough to understand what I'm talking about. Maybe you're not old enough to remember, and you're relying on Google to give you your opinion about what things were like back when.
There's been a progression of Halloween over the past 60 years. In the fifties it was for children... unless the parents were very, very weird. Parents stayed home. The holiday was tailored for their children. Costumes were handmade by mom and dad, and prepared weeks in advance. Only few parents could afford store-bought costumes. Kids wore their parents clothing and went Trick-or-Treating dressed as hobos or princess. No kid doused himself in fake blood. Decorations weren't meant to sicken or scare people half to death. It was all about the free candy, which we collected in brown paper grocery bags.
Look at the bloody, gory costumes of today... the accessories... the wickedly ghastly costumes for adults. America's sick obsession with Halloween and the occult have given rise to what we have today... including Peepers intended to stop someone's heart. Not funny, but certainly not unusual in today's society.
Awww; your post made me nostalgic for the Halloween's of my childhood!
I remember taking pillow cases for the candy. The year I went as an Angel with the halo & wings my dad made with clothes-hangers & tinfoil. Real pumpkin jack-o-lanterns with real candles inside.
Back then you could wear your costume to school & we would even have costume contests AT SCHOOL.
Maybe waking up to a TP'd yard from the teen-agers in the neighborhood ...
It wasn't a mass-consumerism event like it is now.
I think it would make a great decoration for a Haloween party, stuck where you know it would be noticed (like a bathroom winow).
As for someone sticking it on some unsuspecting person's window, I think that would be kinda mean. I know I'd be a little pizzed if I came home and saw that lookinf in my window! Heart attack city!
Not sure how people are equating it to crimes against a person, though, lol.
You can be sure HD won't be the only outlet for that thing. Leave it to nervous Aunt Ednas to be outraged about a dang HALLOWEEN decoration that's....scary.
I Halloween used to be for little children -- a time for them to dress up and get free candy. It should be taken away from the adults and returned to the kids.
To some degree I think this is the root of these problems. Kids used to get scared by a mask and an unexpected scream. Since adults have gotten involved people are chasing an every scarier "high".
And I have to admit to my part in it. I have been to the Eastern State Penitentiary multiple times for both their daytime tours and their halloween fright nights. But I can see how that is a similar issue as this one and the one about the mental illness.
Maybe something are too far...you provided some food for thought, thanks.
People, people, people! Practical jokes are intended to be played on your friends, not "the elderly" or a random single mom down the street!
The fact that so many people feel the need to control others by banning practical jokes because "they might get out of hand or use poor judgment", that's the scary part here.
I've known plenty of people who have been out of control and used poor judgement. I'm related to some of them.
I didn't say anything about banning it.
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