I have many stories I ahve collected in my lifetime. Some are scary. Some amazing. Some are just...well...puzzling. Some are too awful and graphic for this forum. I have had no where to re tell my stories for other people to enjoy. I only ever really get to speak about them with my wife or a few of my remaining friends. I am going to change this.
If this is well received I can post a story about every week for a good year. Some may just be text. Others will have pictures to go along with them. Even fewer will have videos.
This is the story of last Halloween.
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My wife and I (Actually just myself) decided that last year we were going to do soemthing a little different for Halloween. We (I) were tired of simply handing out candy. It was lame. It was boring. So I started thinking.
I decided our coffin (our real, slightly used coffin I scored a long time ago when I worked for a mortuary....tons of stories from there).
Essentially we dressed a dummy up inside it and left the "head" lid open. Underneath the closed "foot" lid I had placed one of our large floor speakers from our surround sound system. We ran cords back to a tent where a friend and myself would be hiding with a microphone. We had the volume on the receiver turned up high enough to hear our evil laughter all the way down the street.
The plan was for a friend and myself to hide in a tent in the yard with my wife taping everyone and explaining to them to take only a couple of pieces of candy.
The plan apart. We had to run it with us in the tent with no video for about 2 hours before my wife came out ready. During this time we had large (20+ groups of people) walking straight through our flower beds. They also kept grabbing tons of candy as we couldn't see the bowl which was sitting on our dummies stomach in the coffin. In the video you can see how the flowerbeds are laid out and how incredibly rude it was to stomp through them. Kids were also mashing their hands into the dummy which was covered in fake blood....that was not dry at all....and stains terribly. We watched multiple occasions where the child would do this and then smear their hands on their clothes/costumes. We never heard anyone complain but I know some of the parents had to have been pissed.
Once my wife was ready everything ran smoothly. We had missed tons of great reactions but still caught a few decent ones. My friend and I ended up a little drunk in the tent.
After the night was over we watched the video and realized how little we actually taped. It was also far too dark to much of anything. Thank God we hung a touch light on the coffin or else all of the video would be useless.
So here is our video. Short and funny. It starts with a daylight intro walkthrough so you can see what everything looks like and then has four groups reactions.
In the end we had about 150 trick or treaters. We made a lot of kids cry. A lot of teenagers screamed and freaked out. A lot of kids/teenagers/parents were startled, laughed, and thought it was "awesome". Will we do it again? No. Too much effort for what we taped. Next year it will be the same as the previous years; candy handed out the normal way........with me hiding ont he side of the house....in a rediclous bloody outift....with a real gas powered chainsaw with the chain removed...chasing the kids going weeee weeee weeee allt he way home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lMhRZqcb0s