# I May Have to Slit Scooby-Do's Throat . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373 "2004-10-15T13:56:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/61 "2004-10-19T14:48:28Z")
If there were inflatable Velmas and Daphanes, they wouldn’t be out on my lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/62 "2004-10-21T05:20:43Z")
Eve- Put some police line tape around him. That should make your neighbors nervous… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/63 "2004-10-21T12:24:59Z")
> [@Wonko The Sane](#): > > Eve- > > Put some police line tape around him. That should make your neighbors nervous… YES! YES! DO IT! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/64 "2004-10-21T17:14:45Z")
Or hide him somewhere, leaving behind a scooby-shaped chalk body outline. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/65 "2004-10-21T17:52:07Z")
Steal him away, leave behind a large pile of Scoobie-Poo, and call in the by-law enforcement officer on your neighbours. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/66 "2004-10-21T18:13:34Z")
Oh, I know—I’ll put shaving cream around his mouth and have animal control come out and shoot him! ---
**Author:** ![Blackacre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@Blackacre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackacre)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/67 "2004-10-21T18:22:41Z")
Have your hubby/boyfriend suck it up and go have a man-to-man talk with the con. After observing the outcome from a distance, rush back and tell us what happens. BA ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/68 "2004-10-21T18:33:26Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Oh, I know—I’ll put shaving cream around his mouth and have animal control come out and shoot him! Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/69 "2004-10-21T18:44:26Z")
[This](http://www.buyinflatables.com/proddetail.php?prod=27203-50), by the way, is what I am confronted with every time I enter or exit my house. I see it “is for INDOOR USE ONLY.” Think the ex-con is somehow violating his parole and I can have him put away? ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/70 "2004-10-21T19:18:46Z")
1. Position an inflatable [10,000-Volt Ghost](http://www.scoobytribute.com/images/scooby_site/villains/m76x22.jpg) nearby and the perennially scared Scoob will high-tail it out of there like rednecks from a poetry reading. 2. Move it to the back yard where they can admire it and you won’t have to see it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/71 "2004-12-20T02:06:01Z")
Hey, **Eve** , be glad you don’t live near any of the people featured in [this show](http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/spcl_prsntn/episode/0,1806,HGTV_3909_35580,00.html). One couple has 124 nylon inflatables on their property! ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/72 "2004-12-20T02:39:20Z")
Obtain some pot. Stash it inside or under Scooby. Then make an anonymous call to the cops about your drug-addict and ex-con neighbors. It sounds as if they might be familiar with this lovely couple and might not believe them when they say that’s not their Scooby stash. ---
**Author:** ![Brunhilde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@Brunhilde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunhilde)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/73 "2004-12-20T02:45:07Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Remember, Scooby Doo is a series with good morals about using your head and being skeptical about what you observe. The ghost was never a ghost, it was someone pretending to be one. Gee, I always thought it was about Pot Smokers… ---
**Author:** ![Chotii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@Chotii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chotii)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/74 "2004-12-20T04:03:51Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > We have a guy in our neighborhood who has no fewer than four…FOUR…of these hideous things on his property every. single. holiday. And he’s only got about 1/16 acre to park all this crap on, so he usually puts one on his roof. It’s painful to look at. I can only assume that he’s blind. A sighted person would never willfully inflict these monstrosities on his fellow man. Oh, I dunno. A neighboring cul-de-sac has about 5 houses where the people seem to have a yearly competition to outdo each other in the holiday decor race. And in the middle of the cul-de-sac is a traffic circle with trees, and - this year - _six_ inflatables - snowmen, penguins, a Grinch, a santa, and so on. I have to take my kids on a trip around that bit of street every chance I get, this time of year. They just love it. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/75 "2004-12-20T04:17:27Z")
> [@Brunhilde](#): > > Gee, I always thought it was about Pot Smokers… [Jay]We call these “doobie snacks!”[/Jay] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/76 "2004-12-20T15:06:11Z")
The one upside to today’s freezing cold and blasting wind is that all the neighbors’ ghastly inflatable horrors now look like the Wicked Witch of the West at the end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/77 "2004-12-20T15:09:25Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Steal him away, leave behind a large pile of Scoobie-Poo, and call in the by-law enforcement officer on your neighbours. [voice of giggling nine-year-old] That would be Scooby Doo-doo! [/voice of giggling nine-year-old] ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/78 "2004-12-20T15:12:57Z")
Wait for the druggies to leave, drench him in gasoline and light him up. You can claim later that Scooby became Buddhist and was protesting the usage of drugs in the house. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373/79 "2004-12-20T16:26:46Z")
I loathe these inflatable characters, but I have to admit, I wish they made an inflatable evil Santa-bot from Futurama. I’d put him on my lawn with his evil reindeer-bots snarling menacingly towards our obnoxious neighbors, and Santa-bot’s machine gun trained on their tilted plastic Santa Claus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-to-slit-scooby-dos-throat/269373.md?page=3)