A Scary Halloween...

Well, we did our yearly over-indulgence for Halloween again this year. Flying zombies, headless scarecrows, fog machines, and a suicidal pumpkin all were on hand. We set up the grave yard in our yard with two fog machines for atmosphere. A headless scarecrow and blacklights completed the spooky effect.

For the big scare I rigged up our mummy, named Grand Master Z, to do a little flying this year. I rigged up a pulley system I could control from inside the house. I also hooked up our stereo system to a DSP I borrowed from a friend. When a victim/trick-or-treater approached the door I'd let GMZ fly down out of one of our eaves where he was hiding and pump 200 watts of evil laugh right in the treaters' faces. This caused many a scream that could be heard for blocks according to people I talked to. We had several kids run away and refuse to approach the house to get candy after they were scared. The funniest was a teenage girl who fell down throwing her candy all over the yard and then running away without picking it up.

It was a kind of slow year though. We only got about 75 kids this year with a normal year topping 150 or so. We figured because it was Friday a lot of people had parties and such and the kids were at those. Bummer. I really look forward to scaring kids. Halloween is probably my favorite holiday.