I remember being scared to death by one house every Halloween growing up in good old Monterey Park. Every year the guy would run around his lawn chasing kids with a real chainsaw. I'm assuming the teeth were not in it, but it was loud and super scary all the same. They gave out full size chocolate bars though, so if you were man enough to run past the guy it was well worth the reward.
Didn't scar me for life, but I certainly remember it quite vividly 20 years later. I could understand parents taking exception to this level of scariness, but if they'll spend money on spooky decorations for the kids you damn well let them.
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