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A local US police department has urged people not to call 911 after reports that a man had been crushed by a garage door.
The supposed victim in Greene County, Tennessee, turned out to be a scarily realistic, early Halloween decoration. The department said it had received calls about a "suspicious person lying in a driveway with bloody handprints on the garage". Officers investigated, only to find it was a puppet stuffed with straw.
Greene County TN Sheriff's Department wrote on Facebook: "ATTENTION EVERYONE!!! For those of you driving on Chuckey Pike in Greene County: THIS IS A HALLOWEEN DECORATION! Do NOT call 911 reporting a dead body. Instead, congratulate the homeowner on a great display."
[Okay, Soylentils, what is your best Halloween prank? --Ed.]
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Monday September 25 2017, @10:10AM
When I was a kid, a favorite was attaching a string to a large tin can in the manner of which one would make a tin-can "telephone": you know, drill or punch a tiny hole in the center of the bottom, thread string through, and knot the string so it can't pull out. Only this time, run the string out the mouth of the can, not the rear.
The object is to hide the can, mouth facing forward, toward your prey, from behind.
Wax the string with pine rosin. It makes the string vibrate like all getout when you stretch it and let it slip between your thumb and finger. The vibrations feed the bottom of the tin can and makes a very unusual sounding roar.
You mount the can in a bush, tree, or other hiding place so that you can get your prey between you and your can. While you are fumbling around for the candy ( maybe drop some on purpose ), and while your prey is distracted, reach around to the string you have hidden, pinch it and let it slide.
I seriously believe some youngun's left our house with crap in their pants.
( No, I did not come up with it... it was my Dad's prank! ).
He had several wham-dingers he pulled off as a kid... one involved a pumpkin, an old hog's head ( a real one, no less! ), a bunch of fur, some kerosene, an old timey church, a chimney, some baling wire, and a hell-and-brimstone preacher with a bunch of believers - who got took in along with the rest of the church, making a hasty exodus.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]