I am a bad man.
(but I am good at it)
Halloween could very well be my favorite holiday at this point. You can scare little kids justifiably and feel no remorse. You are allowed to mess with people in almost any way you see fit. All that and there is candy too.
This year is the first that will be documented here. And while some of my favorite memories are from Halloweens come and gone I did not have the foresight to get pictures for most of them.
In any case, this year I had a small army at my command and I was free to really do some nasty stuff.
Originally we were going to do this at Chris' house, but a last second scheduling conflict forced us to use Mike's garage. Not that that is a bad thing, that's just how it went down.
The setup.
We put a shelter next to the garage door, then walled it in with painting cloths.
From above it looked like this.
Bobby was manning a file cabinet, and will account for most of the noise you will hear in the videos. Phil was behind a stretchy piece of fabric and would kinda poke out at you.
I was waiting to greet them with a 2 pound metal mallet. I was beating on adam's leg (which I will explain further later on).
We had most of Adam's body faked so we could hack on him with stuff. We could chop his leg with an axe and he could wave his arms and yell, which was cool. Also, cow kidneys and liver added to the "flavor".
Bear in mind that some of this might look cheesy, but add lighting effects and reduce visibility and it looks DAMN good.
Once past Adam's head Mike was waiting with the candy, and was ever so glad to hand it out. Past Mike was Paul, and he wants you to meet a friend. His name is Otis.
Chris was freelancing either in the rafters or on the ground scurrying about like only he can. He was wearing a ghille suit. On the way out they had to make it past Tim, who was wearing my ghille suit.
It was loud. It was almost impossible to see.
Note: Some videos might take a sec to download. Be patient.
The first video is before we really got the lighting and fog rolling. It is also the only video where you will be able to tell exactly what is going on. The camera had just as much trouble seeing through our effects as the children did so you can get a decent idea of what it was like in there.
I would chase them out the door.
I laughed about chasing them out the door.
I chased one girl for 3 streets. When I took off after her she dropped her bag and jacket and had to send her friend to come get it from Sam (who looks very stylish in it I might add).
A couple mothers win the moron award. One gave her child the advice of just laughing at us. Let's see how that went.
Another wouldn't let her kid leave. The child however gets a gold star for being a good sport, even wishing us a tearful happy halloween on the way out (listen closely).
We had kids coming in without costumes, which is a pet peeve of mine. This girl was just lame.
We had some kids that acted tough. My favorite was the little wigger boy. I hope he gets hit by a truck. Dave was threatened with a bat by another young punk.
Sometimes it even felt a little too easy.
Now for a sidetrip. For whatever reason, Paul felt the need to say he loved things all through the night. I didn't notice it at the time, but upon reviewing the tapes I felt a highlight reel was in order. Paul must have taken a hit of X.
In the end, we made some kids soil themselves. They ran screaming into the night. And after all, isn't that what the holidays are really all about?
I <3 Halloween.
Update (12-20-05): Mike made a song out of Paul's vid.