Well I only got one entry for my "Your Character Pagent" so I am going to start the contest over and try to advertise it a bit more than previously. But for the moment I'm going to leave that alone.

I heard some disturbing news the day after Halloween, from my mother-in-law. In the town where me and my family had previously lived a little boy was shot and killed on Halloween Night. Below is the details that I was told:

[ The 12 year old boy, his father, and the boys
elder brother, were trick-or-treating. They
stoped at a man's house and rang the door
bell, the man (heartless bast...) comminsed to
shooting the door with an assult rifle,
killing the boy. Then he opened the door and
shot the fahter and the elder brother. Who are
now in the hospital in intensive care. When
the man was asked why he did it he said: "I
thought they were trying to rob me." ]

I can't believe someone would actually kill a child (at all) let alone on Halloween night. What is this world coming to.

My heart goes out to this family in their time of need, but I can't help but think that could have been my daughter's. What if we had still been living their and took them to that house ourselves trick-or-treating.

Halloween is supposed to be a fun time for children to dress up and get some candy, but now-a-days you can't trust someone not to hurt your child. When I was a kid we had to worry about someone poisioning the candy, which was rare. Now you got to worry that some crazed individual with an asualt rifle may start to shooting because he's afraid a 12 year old kid is going to rob him. Lord have mercy!