# Most controversial/offensive Halloween costume? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 27, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074 "2006-10-27T04:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/1 "2006-10-27T04:27:34Z")
One funny side effect of the season is people’s efforts to provoke and in some cases, offend. My girlfriend joked that Halloween is the only day they are allowed to act slutty (lot of slutty fairies out there) Other than that, what is the most offensive costume you’ve seen? ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/2 "2006-10-27T04:30:24Z")
I’m not easily offended, but I can see how the priest with a boner costume could offend people. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/3 "2006-10-27T04:41:11Z")
Two years ago, an associate of a friend went to a Hallowe’en party dressed up as the World Trade Centre. He proceeded to spend the evening running around into walls and screaming. I’m serious. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/4 "2006-10-27T04:50:23Z")
Just today I saw in the newspaper a Steve Irwin costume with a rubber stingray attached, the tail embedded in a bloody wound in the chest. ---
**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 27, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/5 "2006-10-27T05:03:56Z")
There were quite a few “couple” costumes of priest and altar boy a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/6 "2006-10-27T05:05:13Z")
Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/7 "2006-10-27T05:27:11Z")
[QUOTE=Kid\_A] Two years ago, an associate of a friend went to a Hallowe’en party dressed up as the World Trade Centre. He proceeded to spend the evening running around into walls and screaming. I’m serious. [/QUOTE] I knew a group of four guys that did a 9/11 theme. Two dressed as buildings with toy planes sticking out of them, one dressed as the pentagon with an airplane, and the last wore a piece of astroturn with broken plane parts glued to it. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/8 "2006-10-27T06:05:19Z")
One of my friends suggested dressing up as Terri Schiavo. ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/9 "2006-10-27T06:07:08Z")
I am so going to hell for this, but a picture of a guy dressed as ‘Looty’ (scary looking black guy carrying a case of beer in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina) made me laugh. Basically he was a white guy in blackface carrying a case of beer. He might have had redneck plastic teef also. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/10 "2006-10-27T07:02:30Z")
[QUOTE=Kid\_A] Two years ago, an associate of a friend went to a Hallowe’en party dressed up as the World Trade Centre. He proceeded to spend the evening running around into walls and screaming. I’m serious. [/QUOTE] There is something absolutely disgustingly funny to me about that image. Mostly the fact that he would actually have the balls to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/11 "2006-10-27T07:44:11Z")
[QUOTE=Kid\_A] Two years ago, an associate of a friend went to a Hallowe’en party dressed up as the World Trade Centre. He proceeded to spend the evening running around into walls and screaming. I’m serious. [/QUOTE] Two years ago? Hell, my co-worker went to a party in October 2001 dressed up as a twin tower with an airplane sticking out. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/12 "2006-10-27T13:31:10Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Nazis. [/QUOTE] And if your part of the [royal family](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4170083.stm) you’ll probably have to apologize for it too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/13 "2006-10-27T13:34:57Z")
Zombie Amish schoolgirls? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/14 "2006-10-27T13:39:39Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] Hell, my co-worker went to a party in October 2001 dressed up as a twin tower with an airplane sticking out. [/QUOTE] How many flavors of whup-ass did he collect in his goodie sack? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/15 "2006-10-27T13:44:03Z")
I saw the Steve Irwin costume in a Halloween store the other day. Of course it was called “adventure hunter” or some such but it was obvious what the real intention was. I didn’t stop to see if there was a stingray barb, though. Something that I haven’t seen myself but was told about is a suicide bomber costume. Apparently it’s a shirt with explosives attached to it. My first reaction was “wow, that’s pretty tasteless”, but I don’t know, Halloween _is_ about ghouls and monsters and what could be more frightening than that. As to the comment about this being the one time women can shamelessly tart themselves up; amen. I wouldn’t call it offensive, but kind of pathetic. You can dress sexy any time you feel like it; why waste the one time that you can get away with something outrageous? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/16 "2006-10-27T14:12:21Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] Something that I haven’t seen myself but was told about is a suicide bomber costume. Apparently it’s a shirt with explosives attached to it. My first reaction was “wow, that’s pretty tasteless”, but I don’t know, Halloween _is_ about ghouls and monsters and what could be more frightening than that. [/QUOTE] I don’t know if it’s so much tasteless as it is fucking stupid… How many dress-up suicide bombers have to be shot by trigger-happy sheriffs before they stop making those costumes? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/17 "2006-10-27T14:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=FordPrefect] I don’t know if it’s so much tasteless as it is fucking stupid… How many dress-up suicide bombers have to be shot by trigger-happy sheriffs before they stop making those costumes? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Good point! I didn’t even think of that. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/18 "2006-10-27T14:25:21Z")
[QUOTE=WOOKINPANUB] As to the comment about this being the one time women can shamelessly tart themselves up; amen. I wouldn’t call it offensive, but kind of pathetic. You can dress sexy any time you feel like it; why waste the one time that you can get away with something outrageous? [/QUOTE] Why not straddle the line? How about a painted-on nun’s habit? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/19 "2006-10-27T14:26:48Z")
One year I dressed as a flasher - trench coat, cut-off trouser legs tied on above the knees, boxer shorts with a member protruding. Only the member sticking out from the shorts was a plastic nose. On my head I wore a set of Groucho Marx-type glasses with the big bushy eyebrows, but instead having of the typical big nose, they had a penis in its place. * * * The most clever costume I saw was a guy with a CPR dummy (torso) strapped around his waist, pointing forward facing down. It was a female dummy, and he wore a skirt. A pair of pants stuffed to look like there were legs inside, with shoes at the bottom, hung down on either side. It looked for all the world like this fellow was being carried around by a woman who was bent over from the strain. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074/20 "2006-10-27T14:41:24Z")
My cousin and his friends went as the Nun Mafia one year. Full habit, plus dark sunglasses, cigars, and huge plastic guns. Maybe not “offensive”, but it was great to watch people’s expressions change as the nuns turned around and became bearded men in sunglasses smoking giant stinky cigars. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-controversial-offensive-halloween-costume/378074.md?page=2)