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Icy_Arachnid_260 t1_it4g2qt wrote

It's not funny.

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Comfortable_Plant667 t1_it4zzvb wrote

It may only be obvious people who watch the show, but to others this appears like an effigy of a child hanging. The doll's clothing is not distinctive enough to look like it's "from" anything. Suicide prevention teaches the rest of us who are left behind by suicides that depictions of hanging can shock us into memories of grief and loss. These are things that are really important to keep in mind when putting out decorations on a public street. People with antisocial personality disorder already know this and get a thrill from stoking a negative reaction in bystanders. Halloween seems to bring out the worst in some people.

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BeeKynder01970 t1_it4t2l7 wrote

It's from a popular scene in a TV show. It's harmless.

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RevengencerAlf t1_it58ctp wrote

Dexter was a popular TV show at one point and I feel like I would be out of line if I put a plastic wrapped bloody corpse in a bathtub on my front lawn. I'm on the fence over whether this isn't poor enough taste to be a problem. I'm personally not bothered by things almost ever so I have a hard time judging what's appropriate in the context of society in general, something being a reference to a TV show doesn't magically make it fine if it otherwise wouldn't be.

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AchillesDev t1_it5m2ek wrote

> I feel like I would be out of line if I put a plastic wrapped bloody corpse in a bathtub on my front lawn.

This would’ve been expected in the neighborhoods I grew up in here. Unless it was a real corpse, that would be a little bit out of line I guess.

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