It's always been a close race but I have to say Halloween is definitely one of my favorite holidays. As a kid you get to dress up and walk around the neighborhood asking for free candy. As an adult, you dress up and walk around downtown asking for free booze. It's a pretty awesome concept!
One of my favorite things about Halloween is the people who can't handle it. It's a time of scaring and pranks and a little good ol' fear. Most people, like myself, enjoy it. The little rush you get when something jumps at you in a haunted house, the chill down your spine when the door creaks after a scary movie, etc. Of course, there are always going to be people who just don't "get it".
Take for example, the person in Salisbury, NC who called the cops on their neighbors decorations. This guy has a riding mower setup with a straw filled "body' underneath like someone got mowed over. As was intended, it looks pretty real at first glance.
Well, instead of checking on their neighbor, someone decided to skip Step 1 and go ahead and call 911. Luckily, the cops knew about the prop and expected calls already.
Although, my favorite unnecessary panic thus far this year has to be the family who called 911 because they were LOST IN A CORN MAZE! Now, this is no ordinary maze. It's a 7 acre maze that was designed a little more difficult than usual this year. Here is an aerial shot:
Getting lost is no fun, but there are 3 funny twists to this story. The first being that it was only 6:30pm when they called. Really? It probably wasn't even dark yet! Second, there is no fencing around the maze. They could, at any time, have just picked a direction (maybe towards the sound of the traffic on the street nearby) and walked straight to safety. Third, and definitely the funniest, they were less than 25 feet from the end when they were found (it took the cops less than 10 minutes to find them).
I'm not saying to not be alert this Halloween season, just make sure you're freaking out over something real and not being a Halloweenie who just became the butt of the joke.
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