Boo!
Just about every year, in the days leading up to Halloween, police everywhere get calls about someone in dire distress, only to find out that the person reported hanging from a string of Christmas lights or whatever is a dummy — a decoration for Halloween. So when police in Frederica, Del., got a call of a woman hanged in a tree, they may have rolled their eyes ...until they got there. The body, hanging 15 feet above the street and clearly visible to passing cars, was real, and had been hanging there for hours. So why didn’t anyone call the police sooner? Passers-by who saw the body thought it was a Halloween prank. (Wilmington News Journal) ...“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” —Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), American author.
Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 12