....the first one so far anyway....

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With its leering eyes, furrowed brow and hands cupped around a pockmarked face, there is no mistaking what the “Scary Peeper Creeper” is meant to imitate: the head of a “peeping Tom” looking in through a window.

Breanne Hunt Wells told CBC Radio that she was unnerved after spotting the Halloween decoration at a Home Depot in Markham, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto.

“I fail to see the humor in it,” Hunt-Wells told the radio station’s “Metro Morning” show Monday. “It makes light of a very serious crime. Voyeurism is a crime in Canada.”

The mother of two told the radio program that the decoration seemed to downplay voyeurism, which can often lead to more serious offenses such as sexual assault or rape, CBC News reported.

“I would say to people that say ‘it’s just a joke’ there are a lot of things in our society that have been just a joke over time,” Hunt-Wells told CBC. “Racial jokes, cultural jokes. It takes some talking and thinking to realize that maybe we need to be more sensitive. The people that commit this crime are not harmless people.”

Home Depot told CBC News on Monday it would pull the Scary Peeper Creeper from its stores after hearing of Hunt-Wells’s complaint. Another Home Depot spokesman clarified later that the product would be removed from their stores in Canada.

“We agree that this is not in line with our core values, and when we heard, took immediate action and are currently in the process of removing this product from our assortment,” Home Depot spokeswoman Emily DiCarlo told CBC. “We’ve reached out to advise the customer of our actions and apologize. We’re sorry for any offense that was caused.”

Home Depot also decided to pull the product from its Canadian stores because it had received other complaints stating that the Scary Peeper reminded them of infamous Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo, Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes told The Washington Post later Monday.

“It was especially sensitive in Canada [because of] to that connection,” Holmes said.

The product would remain in U.S. Home Depot stores, he added. As of Monday afternoon, the product was also for sale on HomeDepot.com.

Scary Peeper, owned by a husband-and-wife team based in North Carolina, said Monday that it had also reached out to Hunt Wells to apologize.

“We at Scary Peeper would never, ever, condone any type of violence,” owners Morgan and Emily Dowtin said in a statement emailed to The Post. “Our intention for this product is for it to be used as a fun-spirited prank. We offer our sincerest apologies to anyone who has been offended by our products, and certainly, to those who have been victimized by voyeurs. Violence towards women is a serious issue, and our products are not intended to make light of serious crimes.”

Reactions to the decision on social media ranged from indifference to indignation — on both sides.

“Who thinks that pretend voyeurs are a cool Halloween treat to a. create and b. sell? Seriously” a Twitter user named Sonja Boon posted.

“Seriously!? people need to stop being so offended about everything,” tweeted another user named Felix Kay.

The Dowtins said they have been selling some version of the prop since 2013 and that this was their first complaint.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2016/09/27/it-makes-light-of-a-very-serious-crime-home-depot-ousts-peeping-tom-halloween-decoration/





Dang thing is $30....that's the only thing I find "offensive"

Bums?! Nooooo they're Dwelling Challenged individuals

good grief! They need to get a grip! Halloween should be scary but the PC takes that away. Hell I remember people burning Bush in effigy and not many whined

This makes me want to make everyone mad lol

Super commercialization of holidays anymore.
Pretty soon there's going to be giant inflatable bunny and candy basket snowglobes for the front lawn, and pastel holiday lights, for easter, "warehouses and factories of the past" haunted houses for labor day (only $25 a ticket).

Someday there's going to be a news story of "omg! For memorial day there's all these fake dead soldiers on my neighbors lawn! They're not supporting the troops! I'm offended and think they are terrorists."
"I was recreating Omaha beach!!"
"I'm offended!"
"I'm a patriot!"


To me that's freaking hilarious.

Paparazzi, National Enquirer, TMZ, Hillary's health, COPS, reality t.v. shows (or any tv show, really), twitter, facebook. Hell, NSA spying on citizens and foreign allies like Germany.

Voyeurism is America.

Maybe off topic, but it seems like voyeurism and control.
"Whatcha doing over there? I wanna know what everyone else is doing. If I want to do it, then you have to let me, and I want to be subsidized until I'm as good as anyone else, immediately.
And if I'm not as good? I still want a trophy.
If I don't want to do it? Then I demand someone do something to stop you from doing it, because if I don't want to do it, then it must be bad.
If I'm doing something and you see me doing it and I don't want you to? I want someone to make it so I can enjoy it with who I want and don't have to include you.
And! If I am doing something and want attention but you don't care? I demand someone do something so you have to pay attention to me and tell me how good I'm doing."

THAT's true American.


"Challenged" is a trigger word inflicting emotional trauma.
And you can't spell individual without "divid(e)," which is divisive.

In the interest of promoting acceptance, tolerance, and unity, you HAVE to (or else) refer to them (if they so desire, by asking them non confrontationally, allowing them to fill out the proper government paperwork denoting how they should be addressed) as "free range recycling and excess wealth redistribution enthusiasts."