Soccer Mom: Unplugged

A macabre Halloween day report caught my eye but after reading it I am wondering less about the dead than the living in Idaho...

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho  —  Authorities in Coeur d'Alene said some teenagers out for a Halloween scare got a lot more fright than they bargained for.

According to Kootenai County sheriff's detectives, the group had been at a Halloween party Friday night when they noticed a house under construction. They thought it would be scary, so they went in.

They told investigators that when they saw what looked like one or more bags hanging from the rafters of the basement, they shot some B-B guns and threw hunks of wood at it.

Then they left and came back with a flashlight to discover it was the body of a man who had hanged himself.

When they went back to the party, nobody believed them, so they got someone to go back to the house with them. When they arrived the owner, 65-year-old Norman Giddings, met them with a machete and told them to get down on the ground while he summoned authorities.

Deputies said it's not likely charges will be filed.

So these young people go to a Halloween party with a loaded BB gun?  For kicks they go into a house that's under construction and shoot up the place?  Then upon returning to the scene of their, uh, youthful vandalism, they are pinned to the ground by a machete wielding senior citizen???  Is there something in the water up there? 

Welcome to Idaho: Be afraid.  Be very, very afraid!