Jay Honeck wrote:
Personally, I can't decide whether I'm being hypersensitive to this, as
a pilot who has grown skittish about public scorn toward aviation, or
whether it really IS sick -- but I think it's sick, too.

On the other hand, I find most of the "hand sticking up out of the
ground" Halloween/grave-yard stuff to be sick, so maybe it's just me?
I've got plenty of friends who have gone to great lengths to scare
people, under the guise of "it's only Halloween"...which I find goofy.

I personally am not offended, but that's mainly because it would take
an awful lot to offend me. As far as whether or not one can use
Halloween as an excuse for goofy displays like this, well, it sure as
heck beats all these displays I've noticed this year that put some of
the Christmas displays to shame... lit up, animatronics, figurines,
fake spider webs, the list goes on and on... and these are just the
houses I see on my normal commute every day. I can only imagine how
overboard the general populace is in the rest of the country when it
comes to Halloween. That's probably the scariest part of the holiday!


--
Guy