This reminds me of the Hallowe'en trick my friends did in Scarboro. They knew where there was a blind curve on this small road, and they made a dummy, dressed up in jeans and so on, and layed it across the road after midnight, and hid behind the bushes. There was a thin rope tied to the dummy's pant leg, by the way.

Sure enough, after about five minutes along comes a car and drives right over the dummy, then screeches to a halt a short way down the road. The hiding kids instantly pull the dummy off the road, and one of them takes its place, sprawled across the road like a dead man. They had taken care to make two tire marks across his clothing beforehand...just for the full effect.

The driver of the car comes running back gasping, "Oh my God, Oh my God!"

Just as he reaches the "body", the kid gets to his feet, dusts off the tire marks, glares at the guy, and says "For Christ's sake will you watch where you're driving!" and stalks off without another word.

The driver was rendered more or less speechless. He eventually stumbled off to his car in a disoriented fashion and drove away, probably not noticing the howls of hilarity coming from the bushes, where the plotters had nearly blacked out try to suppress their laughter.

I have to give these guys credit for real initiative, imagination, and good planning.

- LH