While many flock to the most colourfully decorated homes on Halloween, seeking a fright from the ghoulish displays, one group of concerned residents has had enough.

"People have taken the idea of what's scary way over the line," says Diane Burns, the founder of a committee asking the city of Kingston, Ontario to regulate Halloween decorations.

"This year I saw a 'dead' Sidney Crosby costume. That's too much!"

The committee is petitioning the city to impose restrictions on how residents are able to decorate their homes for Halloween by suggesting that the city issue permits to homes who wish to decorate and place limitations upon what decorations they're able to use.

Burns is particularly opposed to Kingston residents who display, what she alleges to be, grotesque and excessive displays of violent and morbid imagery, particularly tombstones and other graveyard decorations.

"I want to see a one tombstone per house limit and displays of blood in any form will prevent residents from receiving a permit," she says.

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