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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.
You went to Terror Behind the Walls? I'm jealous.
I've seen some very elaborate, well thought out displays. One was a freaky funeral home in a living room, a torture chamber in a garage (the couple was in costume, too), and a yard transformed into a haunted graveyard. They dug holes in the annual flower bed. My kid wouldn't go near that garage. One year the guy walked down the driveway, chatted for a minute, and gave him a candy bar. He still wouldn't go in there the next year.
Some people are more sensitive to those things and more easily frightened.
Oh good grief! If you don't like it, don't buy it! Problem solved! Since when does one twit get to dictate what everyone else wants or does? Stay home and live in your basement with your tinfoil hat while the rest of us have a good time.
Halloween decorations are bought to scare people. What's the big deal about this one?
Oh... wait... let me guess.
One customer complained to Home Depot.
Home Depot, having been shaped by our PC society, and anticipating a lawsuit, immediately removed it from it's shelves.
Pathetic.
The item the Canadian Home Depot has on sale was beyond "scary". I think it could cause shootings at the "face" shown, as it is quite shocking and realistic-looking, especially at a distance or by someone who does not have great vision or who has reason to be extremely fearful, and it is possible that near or behind that "face" children or others could be standing nearby.
Therefore, I think the potential for someone to be shot or have a projectile thrown through the window exists, and for that reason, it should be withdrawn from the market. It is potentially dangerous.
There's a difference between scary goblins and creepy perverts, and it has nothing to do with so-called political correctness or even which side of the current political spectrum one is on.
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What's next, a lifesize, realistic looking toddler replica that screams "Help, I am being kidnapped"?
Well, at least I'm getting plenty of decorating ideas from this thread.
I can totally see my husband propping the Peeper Creeper in the window and then asking me to go to that room to get something...then again, we don't own a gun and he knows he can run away faster than I can run to go kick him in the stones for having done it.
He did put on a horrible old-man mask once and came up behind me...that was fun. I about you-know-whatted myself.
The item the Canadian Home Depot has on sale was beyond "scary". I think it could cause shootings at the "face" shown, as it is quite shocking and realistic-looking, especially at a distance or by someone who does not have great vision or who has reason to be extremely fearful, and it is possible that near or behind that "face" children or others could be standing nearby.
Therefore, I think the potential for someone to be shot or have a projectile thrown through the window exists, and for that reason, it should be withdrawn from the market. It is potentially dangerous.
There's a difference between scary goblins and creepy perverts, and it has nothing to do with so-called political correctness or even which side of the current political spectrum one is on.
NO, it is potentially mistaken and overreacted upon by a .... overreacing person...
There is NOTHING dangerous about it. There is nothing dangerous about a taxidermy bear or a ski mask.
The same place that sells; metal pipes, electrical cable, saws, blowtorches, and many different types of poisons is pulling WINDOW DECORATIONS off the shelves because someone MIGHT use it to...... ewwwww OHHH NOOOO, Scare somebody...
Lol, gawd bless these nervous Nellies and hand-wringing busybodies. What the heck would we all do without these Halloween mavens?
Thankfully, for those so inclined (uh...because it's their business, not ours), that thing should be fairly easy to replicate, should it be pulled from (or fly off) store shelves.
Lol, gawd bless these nervous Nellies and hand-wringing busybodies. What the heck would we all do without these Halloween mavens?
Thankfully, for those so inclined (uh...because it's their business, not ours), that thing should be fairly easy to replicate, should it be pulled from (or fly off) store shelves.
Well we should take proactive measures then to halt this. We should ban any materials that could possibly used to make such a gag. We should ban plastic, steel, aluminum, wood, rubber, canvas, cotton, paint (to make it look real)etc...
PC PC PC blah blah blah blah. Let's make fun of the elderly and autistic and disabled while we are at it. Geeees. Deplorable.
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overreacing person... 
), that thing should be fairly easy to replicate, should it be pulled from (or fly off
) store shelves.
