In article >, Melba's
Jammin' > wrote:

> The little goblins will start showing up at about 5:30, I'm guessing.
> I've three bags of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, a bag of Jolly Rancher
> suckers, most of a bag of Twix, and about 10 FunSize Midnight Milky
> Ways. That should cover it. If I work it right, the Midnight Milky
> Ways will be gone before they start to ring the bell. :-) I'll expect
> between 50 and 70 kids.

I don't know how many to expect. The neighborhood is pretty upset. Some
creep has been walking into people's houses in the middle of the night,
looking for little girls. He almost got one. She was eight years old and
goes to school a block from our house. She told the guy that she had to
go to the bathroom. When he let her go, she ran screaming to her father,
who chased the guy out of the house. Several other people reported
intrusions. It hasn't been that many years since Richard Allen Davis
abducted Polly Klaas from her house on the other side of town. When they
finally found her body it was too badly decomposed to determine whether
she had been sexually assaulted. However, Davis had assaulted women three
times previously, and been convicted and served time for each. This was a
considerable impetus to the famous California "three strikes" law.
Supposedly Davis had told a cell mate that his next one was going to be
young, since he was concerned about AIDS. Polly was 13.

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Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
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