Halloween is the only time of year when a grown adult is legally and morally obligated to attack children in his front yard while dressed as a scarecrow. However, some people take this obligation way too far, resulting in monstrously mental anguish and phantasmagorically physical trauma.

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One North Carolina family decided to decorate for Halloween by dangling a dummy from the edge of their second story roof as if he had been cleaning the gutters and suddenly slipped, because they apparently thought the best way to delight trick-or-treaters was to stage a tragic domestic accident.

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"How's he still holding on? It's like the forearm strength of five horny 14-year-olds!"

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Someone spotted the scene and called the fire department, seeing as how Halloween is in no way represented and it just looks like a human being about to plunge to his death.