1.) Iowa has started taxing Pumpkins, since their main use now is as “decorations” rather than as food.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071031/D8SJUCTO1.html
My favorite part:
2.) Drunken Man Dresed as Zombie mistaken for Corpse:
So they’ve been taxing gourds all this time as well? And who would waste a perfectly good pie pumpkin by carving it? Feh, nevermind, there are those who wouldn’t know the difference I suppose.
And the second link is just funny.