# Man, some people are too easily disturbed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034 "2008-10-22T09:07:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/1 "2008-10-22T09:07:18Z")
Are people really becoming this easy to disturb? [A man in California has decorated his yard for Halloween and the Homeowners Association is upset about it?](http://www.ktvu.com/news/17770688/detail.html) > [@](#): > > The display has raised the ire of Glenwood Homeowners Association president Sandra Sellinger. > > “This is not what’s normal for Halloween,” Sellinger told the Marin Independent Journal. “When you see chainsaws and you see heads sticking out of aprons that are bloody and you see heads on stakes – this is a form of mutilation.” You know, its not like he has put a giant statue of Satan in the yard on Christmas Eve. I’m just kind of suprised that anyone would even bother to be upset. The slideshow in the article didn’t look all that scary to me. Even as a kid I would have thought it was cool to decorate a yard like that. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/2 "2008-10-22T12:23:55Z")
When I saw “Homeowners’ Association is upset” I thought it would be something piddly and bureaucratic, like his fake spider webs are 1/4" too wide or his severed heads are less than 6 inches from the sidewalk. If he actually had a statue of Satan, the HOA would probably take it as a compliment… Sorry…my opinion of HOAs is very, very low, as you can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/3 "2008-10-22T12:38:25Z")
I was considering making a pit thread about this when I read that article this morning. What utter, absolute, unbelievable pussies some people are. Unless the slideshow I saw skipped the truly heinous things, it was all stuff I could buy at the Wal-Mart next door. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/4 "2008-10-22T12:46:20Z")
Pretty much all HA’s suck. This will be a VERY popular house on the 31st. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/5 "2008-10-22T12:53:35Z")
His garden looks great. I wish he lived in my neighbourhood. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/6 "2008-10-22T13:07:33Z")
**Moderator’s Note:** I’m not really seeing much of a debate here; moving thread from Great Debates to MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/7 "2008-10-22T13:13:22Z")
Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/8 "2008-10-22T13:34:11Z")
Agreed. They can take their fairy-princess-with-mayonaise-on-white-bread Halloween and shove it up their collective uptight, anal-retentive ass. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/9 "2008-10-22T13:38:51Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. > [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. Yeah, I’d say that you could scare some little kiddies with that. _awesome_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/10 "2008-10-22T13:39:32Z")
A tableaux showing HOA members at one of their obsessively controlling board meetings would make a fine Halloween decoration. On second thought, too scary. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/11 "2008-10-22T13:46:38Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > A tableaux showing HOA members at one of their obsessively controlling board meetings would make a fine Halloween decoration. > On second thought, too scary. Fussy HOA-worthy nitpick: As with bijoux, manteaux and choux, tableaux is plural. If you’re writing in French. The English singular is _tableau_ and the English plural is _tableaus_. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/12 "2008-10-22T13:49:23Z")
And as we get closer to Halloween we’re going to start seeing assholes protesting any Halloween display that has a person hanging, because the only possible interpretation of that is a racial lynching. Like last year: > **[This Halloween, Man in Noose Wins a Reprieve (Published 2007)](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/27/nyregion/27noose.html)** > > A series of race-baiting incidents have left some wondering about the display of Halloween ghouls in nooses. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/13 "2008-10-22T14:03:21Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. > [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. What the hell? You steal that from the set of John Carpenter’s _The Thing_? ---
**Author:** ![pendgwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3da27b/32.png) [@pendgwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pendgwen)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/14 "2008-10-22T14:19:12Z")
What planet have these people been living on that gory, haunted house decorations are not a normal part of Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/15 "2008-10-22T14:19:51Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. > [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. That is excellent. I’ve seen trauma cases come in DOA looking exactly like that! ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/16 "2008-10-22T14:42:50Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. > [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. Jes\*s Chr#st! You’re right. That woke me up. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/17 "2008-10-22T14:52:01Z")
> [@Acid\_Lamp](#): > > Some people are total weenies. His stuff is not scary, it’s the usual. > [My stuff](http://adamjprawlocki.googlepages.com/BeastofBrayroadkill.jpg) is scary. I’m calling your homeowners association! That scared me! Just kidding. That looked pretty cool. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/18 "2008-10-22T15:28:18Z")
Well, I wouldn’t complain, but I wouldn’t be very happy about walking my dog in the late evening and having to pass by that house, or ::shudder:: **Acid Lamp’s**. And it could certainly be frightening for any small children in the neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/19 "2008-10-22T15:31:44Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#): > > And it could certainly be frightening for any small children in the neighborhood. Another reason to keep the toddlers from roaming the streets at night.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034/20 "2008-10-22T15:34:20Z")
As with the vast Christmas displays that some people put up, part of the irritation may be the increase in traffic from spectators. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-some-people-are-too-easily-disturbed/469034.md?page=2)