Halloween Displays

[SoonerTexan]

http://abc7news.com/news/parents-cla...ldren/1024908/

Thoughts? No one is ever going to force them to take it down, but it does seem a little much for being near an elementary school. Especially the child on the pike...

I like Halloween--we dress up and do the normal things, but I prefer decorating for autumn, not ghoulishly. Actually, the very theatrical ghoulish stuff (graveyard in the front yard, scary but obviously fake animatronics) doesn't bother me. This stuff does though...I hate that the holiday has gotten so far into celebrating stuff that is downright deranged vs just spooky or supernatural.

[alotofyarn]

I think it's a bit much too. I also prefer decorating for fall instead of Halloween, although our neighbor brought over some decorations the other day and I felt like I had to use them, so we have some sort of witch and pumpkin people now hanging on our front porch. They're cute, I guess, just not something I would have bought on my own.

[Pollyanna]

It's a bit much but the mom of the scared daughter is a bit much too. She has too much time on her hands complaining to the city. We do fall and fun Halloween decorations. I don't care for the scary stuff but I do like to see how others put together scary displays.

[PrincessFiona]

This is horrific and twisted. They should take it down. What kind of a sick mind comes up with shit like that?


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[ballibeg]

Think will stick with guysing, the traditional Scottish celebration of All Saints Eve. Kids have to perform to earn a treat, some tell jokes, some a song and often they do a group dance/song. The better the performance the greater the reward!

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

We passed a similar display this morning on our run. Honestly, I don't want to explain to my 3 yo what a graveyard, skeletons, scary zombies, etc. are. They were fascinated and it's definitely scary. That being said, they have the right to do it of course on their own property...but I do have to like it.

[Thirteen]

We have pretty tame displays (if any) where we live. I carve pumpkins every year and this year we have a few friendly window clings. DS1 is doing SO much better than last year (where he cried for 5 weeks straight because they sang a "spooky" song in music class at school). It was heartbreaking.


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[SoonerTexan]

Halloween Displays

It was the toddler sized child on a pike with a knife in its throat that really bothered me. My daughter would probably be traumatized seeing that. It's not spooky. It's depraved.-


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[WolfpackWife]

It's a bit much but the mom of the scared daughter is a bit much too. She has too much time on her hands complaining to the city. We do fall and fun Halloween decorations. I don't care for the scary stuff but I do like to see how others put together scary displays.

That's my thought. Yeah, it's a bit much, but that's obviously what they were going for. The complaints to the city do nothing to endear her to me. She totally came off as one of "those people" to me.

I honestly don't think you should be obligated to decorate a certain way just because of your proximity to a school or a church or anything else, really. I personally am not a fan of the display bc it creeps me out and is kinda gross, but I mean it's Halloween. I didn't get the impression from the woman in the home that they were depraved or had ill will or bad intent and wanted to scare kids. In fact, she seemed really nice and genuine. There are lots of people who genuinely like and enjoy super horrific movies, and while those aren't on display and they aren't my taste, personally, I don't think it makes them depraved. The kid one is probably a little much, I agree.

ETA: This may be a form of profiling, but I totally expected the people in the house to be some kind of shitty, childless jerks who would be all "well? So? It's scary? Too bad!" I definitely thought someone made that display with the mindset of "yeah, fuck all of you, who cares if it's scary?" but when it was a seemingly nice, pleasant mother of two I was like - Oh, they probably just like Halloween/scary movie/gory movies, etc. Makes it a totally different thing to me.

[rufflesanddots]

I can't even handle arranging some autumnal gourds, so people who go through this much effort for themes strike me as impressive on some small level (even if their decorations are macabre). Maybe the complaining mom should just try alternate routes home during this month? The home owner seems super accommodating with the offer to "tone it down" if she receives more complaints.

[SoonerTexan]

They ended up taking it down because the homeowner started feeling unsafe due to the attention the news story was drawing, which is sad in itself :/

[Ladybug]

I would totally steal it at night and put it in a dumpster. Community service.

[Sheherezade]

Just want to mention that of course this is my local news....so proud. Not our suburb, but our city. (I was hoping it was some other outrageous display near another elementary school!)


Angie

[Pollyanna]

They ended up taking it down because the homeowner started feeling unsafe due to the attention the news story was drawing, which is sad in itself :/

See, that's ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason she should have to take that down. Folks are spending waaaaay too much time being outraged these days. So little nine year old was scared, mom made a fuss, and poof the scary world accommodated her. I just can't get on board with that being a healthy thing.

[poky]

Just want to mention that of course this is my local news....so proud. Not our suburb, but our city. (I was hoping it was some other outrageous display near another elementary school!)


Angie

Heh. I almost asked my coworker who lives in Parma about it in our meeting this morning.