When Dawn Garcia looked outside her house for the source of the hollering and swearing she could hear, I'm sure the last thing she expected to see was a man struggling with a giant pumpkin. Understandably she told him to go away, although probably not in those exact words.

After attacking her inflatable Halloween lawn display of three ghosts and a giant pumpkin, her neighbor, John Odee, then apparently smashed his head through her window in a fit of rage. When police arrived they found Odee inside Garcia's house. She, in the meantime, had escaped with her three children to the house of another neighbor.

The last report of Odee was that he was being held at Ulster County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

What else did Garcia expect when putting out her decorations so early in the month? And, obviously I'm not the only person irritated by endless trails of children using menaces to extract Hershey bars from innocent adults on October 31.