# My first sting operation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-sting-operation/557028>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 13, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-sting-operation/557028 "2010-10-13T18:43:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-sting-operation/557028/61 "2010-10-16T13:51:57Z")

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I love Halloween, and the minute it’s October, my stuff, tacky or not, goes up. However, we do not have the blow-up giant figures…mainly because out here, either a coyote pack would attack it or an errant hunter would shoot it. And the OP handmade some very nice wooden cut-outs that probably took quite some time and money, and I would definitely be pissed if someone tore them up.

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**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 17, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-sting-operation/557028/62 "2010-10-17T12:27:09Z")

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Elbows, the purpose of setting out decorations well in advance of Halloween is to lure and trap some children early on so that they will be properly decomposed for front-lawn display by Halloween.

For some good examples, have a stroll down Egerton between the tracks and the river.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-first-sting-operation/557028/63 "2010-10-17T16:01:09Z")

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> [@AClockworkMelon](#):
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> I love the thread about the guy who moves his neighbors’ garden gnomes closer to the house by an inch every morning. I just want the OP to catch them because I like conflict. 😃

See, if I were the gnome-owner, I’d think that’s funny as hell. I’d probably start setting up obstacle courses or erecting gnome-sized defensive battlements or something.

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