Trick or Treat!
erco
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A lot of people get into Halloween: fancy pumpkin carving, elaborate yard decorations, etc. Sweet stuff. And here's a guy jamming 70 LEDs into a real pumpkin: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/70_led_matrix_in_a_jack-o-lantern.html Too subtle for me. Halloween is about making kids pee in their pants.
Ever since I was happily traumatized in my formative youth by a Halloween scarecrow dummy jumping up at my sister and I, I have repaid the favor with interest. Over the years, I have built a reputation as "Mr. Pumpkinhead" with the neighborhood kids for scaring the Smile out of them. Even in the summertime, kids ask me where I'll be hiding on Halloween. I change my hiding place from year to year, and I have a lot of decoys and distractions where I might be hiding. Sometimes, but not always, I'm sitting on the porch very still with a real wet slimy pumpkin on my head with some LED eyes. I have a WD-40 pumpkin flamethrower at my feet I can pull a string and activate as jump up and yell at the trick or treaters. You hear a lot about how today's kids are out of shape and can't run. Not true in my neighborhood. Man, can those kids run away fast!
Lame old photo attached. I keep meaning to take better photos and even video the kids.Maybe this is the year.
Happy Halloween!
Ever since I was happily traumatized in my formative youth by a Halloween scarecrow dummy jumping up at my sister and I, I have repaid the favor with interest. Over the years, I have built a reputation as "Mr. Pumpkinhead" with the neighborhood kids for scaring the Smile out of them. Even in the summertime, kids ask me where I'll be hiding on Halloween. I change my hiding place from year to year, and I have a lot of decoys and distractions where I might be hiding. Sometimes, but not always, I'm sitting on the porch very still with a real wet slimy pumpkin on my head with some LED eyes. I have a WD-40 pumpkin flamethrower at my feet I can pull a string and activate as jump up and yell at the trick or treaters. You hear a lot about how today's kids are out of shape and can't run. Not true in my neighborhood. Man, can those kids run away fast!
Lame old photo attached. I keep meaning to take better photos and even video the kids.Maybe this is the year.
Happy Halloween!
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-dan
I just want to give them a nice wow. Nothing wows like fi-yuh.