Not in Marin County! White bread? Sure, if you like white flour poison! Mayonnaise? No way! it would have to be soyonaise on sprouted quinoa loaf.
And don’t even get me started on the minefield that the fairy princess costume would bring up… It would be an outrage to force young girls into the trap of the media’s idealized feminine image of physical perfection and docility! 
Snerk…
So, hanging what is obviously (if viewed through moron-colored glasses) supposed to be a black man is bad, but burning them is a-ok…thanks for clearing that up, Rev!
Cool! Can we see the rest of your decorations?
But you could argue that he(the victim) wasn’t that color before he was burned.
That’s the idea! It’s supposed to be scary. If your children are very young, you’re accompanying them and explaining the whole thing to them. If they’re ultra-sensitive, you might map out a different route. Watering down the make-believe should not be the expectation.
That made me laugh out loud. Won’t someone think of the vegan children.
and yeah, the slideshow, creepy and somewhat over the top but whatever. If I were his neighbor I’d be shaking my head and thinking, better him than me because putting up and taking down all that junk would be more trouble than it’s worth.
Saudis ask me to explain Halloween. I do not even understand it myself.
A house in our neighborhood had an elaborate graveyard scene in their yard last year. Skeletons crawling out of graves, eerie lighting, scary music playing on Halloween night, the whole deal. Our neighbors took their then-16-month-old son trick-or-treating and were worried he would be too scared of it, but he LOVED it. They told him it was pretend and let him look at the decorations up close, and he was just fascinated. I thought that was good parenting – being sensitive to their kid’s possible reaction, but letting him make up his own mind.
There are two essential elements to Halloween:
1: Getting to dress up as something cool and possibly scary.
2: Getting a ton of free candy.
I would have expected that both would cross cultural bounds.
Sure. I’ll set up a folder and post back to this thread later.
Update.
HERE is a small album with dome more of the decor.
Yes. Cite:
The hanging grammarian has also been used as a Halloween decoration.
Problem: not scary enough. :eek::dubious:
My aunt was, for many years, a first grade teacher in a parochial school. Those bloodthirsty little kids liked the stories about the Egyptian plagues the best.
In my church, up front, there are twelve huge stained glass window depicting the twelve original disciples of Jesus. I take my second grade class down there each year and tell some of the stories. So St. Bartholomew is depicted as holding a knife. I tell the kids that’s a symbol of how legends say he was martyred, by being flayed. St. Peter has an upside down cross with him, so I explain that, and the X shaped cross of St. Andrew. By the third or fourth disciple it’s “oooh, how did THIS one die?” from the little monsters. Don’t get me wrong, I love the kids, but they’re a lot tougher than folks give them credit for.
Yeah, I grew up with a Catholic mom and a fundamentalist non-denominational dad. It was wall-to-wall stories about people getting tortured and killed. But of course we weren’t allowed to watch horror movies because they were considered unpleasant subject matter that would “put horrible images in your mind that you could never forget.” Yeah…too late, Dad.
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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?
Further down on the same page. . . a little scarier.
Think of the type of people that would want to be leading a home owners association. Only their options (opinions) are suitable.
I took Kid Kalhoun to a Haunted Path (on a golf course) when he was about four. It was a chilly Halloween and he was wearing a jacket with a hood. When it got a little too freaky for him, he put his jacket on backwards and put the hood over his face. 
Other places do it in Carnaval and Christmas (December 28th is a combo between April’s Fools and Trick-or-Treat). And our own Day of the Dead celebration is simply completely different (plus in Spain it takes place on November 2nd).
You really go all out! Very neat, your house must be the hit of the block.