1. You cannot stick your tongue out and look up at the ceiling at the same time. (TRY IT!)

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Just at that moment, a bee flew in his window. The bee said, ‘What seems to be the problem?’

‘I’m out of gas,’ the man replied.

The bee told the man to wait right there and flew away.

Minutes later, the man watched as an entire swarm of bees flew to his car and into his gas tank. After a few minutes, the bees flew out.

“Try it now,’ said one bee.

The man turned the ignition key and the car started right up. ‘Wow!’ the man exclaimed, ‘what did you put in my gas tank’?

The bee answered,

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

Walking faster, he looks back and through the fog he makes out the image of an upright casket banging its way down the middle of the street toward him.

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP…

Terrified, the man begins to run toward his home, the casket bouncing quickly behind him.

FASTER…

FASTER..

BUMP…

BUMP…

BUMP……

He runs up to his door, fumbles with his keys, opens the door, rushes in, slams and locks the door behind him. However, the casket crashes through his door, with the lid of the casket clapping.

clappity-BUMP…

clappity-BUMP….

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on his heels, as the terrified man runs. Rushing upstairs to the bathroom, he locks himself in. His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps. With a loud CRASH the casket breaks down the door.

Bumping and clapping toward him.

The man screams and reaches for something, anything, but all he can find is a bottle of cough syrup! Desperate, he throws the cough syrup at the casket…

and,

(wait for it!!)

The coffin stops

It seems that our 15 minutes of fame is now complete. The 16th minute is very quiet, the way we like it! People are still driving by all day long, honking their horns, slowing down and looking but the phone has stopped ringing. I want to thank our local police department for all of the time they are taking to drive by our home everyday. With all that has happened it makes everything feel a bit more comfortable.

The latest happenings with this story is my husband was contacted my the Fox News network to appear on their morning show Fox & Friends. It is obvious that I do not watch a lot of TV until after the boys go to bed because I had never heard of it. They wanted him to come on and talk about it. So, yesterday morning, a car arrives at 6am to take him to Detroit (about 45 minutess). At 7:50am my husband appears on national TV! Yes, it was a little weird seeing him and the boys went nuts!

Other than the fact that this story went global (yes, we found it on UK news sites!), I think the funniest part was that “Jane” changed her story 4 different times between the news and newspapers and the voters noticed

I hope for now, the candidate whining is over and we can move on to more important campaign activity. I am so proud of my husband for how wonderfully he has handled this entire situation. The attempts to make him look bad or make him mad did not work. Wish us lurk on November 3rd!

OMG, this thing is going crazy! Fox News contacted my husband yesterday to be on the Fox & Friends show about this! Not only that but we were just watching Headline News and they had it on! Can you believe that these 2 people now look stupid nationally? We are laughing so hard over this whole thing. This goes to show how wrong an original plan can go.

I would assume that the idea was to make my husband look bad and to discredit him as a candidate. I am thinking that didn’t work the way they had planned. Headline News said HIS name but referred to them as “The Other Candidates”. We are completely blown away by this entire thing. We did it to be funny for Halloween and it turned into this out of control news story. I really thought I was doing good by keeping people’s names private from the beginning but I really don’t see why it matters now since it is on Headline News I really don’t see the point anymore.

13 ABC – Halloween decorations causing controversy

Fox Toledo News – Candidate mocks others with tombstones

Toledo Blade – Trustee hopeful in Sylvania Township buries his rivals

Jim and Jane called out 1 of our local news crews so they could tell their side of the story. We didn’t speak with them, they just took some footage of the house, talked to Jim and Jane and left. About 10 mins later another news crew from another station comes out. We ended up talking to them because I had to get my son off the bus and I did not want him being filmed or talked to. He is only 7 and I doubt they would have but I wasn’t taking the chance. They actually came out a total of 3 times yesterday and did a live new cast at 11. It was great!It ended up going fairly well. I really wish I could post the newscast because it was hysterical. It looked as though took all the anchors  had not to bust out laughing on the TV. I think in the end Jim and Jane came out looking like a bunch of morons. All Jane had to say was, “It’s just an example and shows the lack of seriousness that he is applying towards this campaign.” Leave it to her to be the one to have something negative to say. I don’  know any of the personally but if they new  my husband they would know this is something he is passionate about. He actually wants to help these town and not line his pockets and be a big shot.

We are calling my husband Howard in this story. I know tons of you already know his name but lol….I don’t really care if anyone see’s all of the names and places, I am just trying to be considerate.  This is a copy from the news cast. I did add some additional quotes from the video that they did not include.

A xxxxx trustee candidate cut out tombstones and painted his opponents names’ on them.

A local candidate’s Halloween decorations are angering his opponents. One other candidate even says his family feels threatened. Howard is running for xxxxxxx trustee. He put his name in his front yard and all his opponents’ names as well. Howard debated how to mock his opponents for Halloween.

“I could have done skeletons but that’s kind of iffy.”

So instead the Republican candidate for township trustee, “Cut out tombstones and painted every body’s name. You can see down here is the date of the election when I bury my opponents.”

Independent Jim found his name on Trustee Hill Cemetery along with five other candidates.

The angry candidates met us across the street from their tombstones. While everyone spoke to us, the two sides were not speaking to each other, until Jim and Howard met for the first time. And so the two men reached a compromise, Howard painted over Jim’s name with an asterisk but left the rest of them.

Addressed to Jim and Jane, “Is it possible you guys are taking this to seriously?”, to which Jim replied, “Umm, no, I don’t think so. When my wife is upset about this and scared for her safety, my safety, no.” Howard says, “It’s all in good fun.”

Howard says it’s all in fun. But we did ask if voters should still take this first time candidate seriously, to which Howard replied, “This makes my kids happy, I don’t care what they think. That’s important to me, my kids are happy and they like it, I like it.”

We are told this is not the first time tombstones have gone up in the Howard’s yard for Halloween. We are told that last year, Howard’s wife  put up tombstones with all the names of his ex-girlfriends on them.