Do You Realize What This Means?

When the residents of Boone, Colorado went to bed Monday night everything was completely normal. When they awoke on Halloween morning, they found that it had all changed overnight.

Someone had covered the town in a veritable carpet of pumpkins.

Residents woke up Tuesday to find virtually every surface covered with the orange holiday icons. There were pumpkins left on front porches and at front gates, on the front and back steps of a church and all along the boundary of the city park.

Larry Taylor said there weren't any pumpkins when he walked his dogs at about 10 p.m. on Monday in the town of about 330 residents, 110 miles southeast of Denver.

But by the time Postmaster Nancy Pennington drove to work at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, they were everywhere.

At Boone Grocery and Hardware, pumpkins were placed on top of the concrete parking stops out front.

"It's kinda cool," said employee Bill Coyle. "It's kinda unique. Throughout the town there's probably a couple of hundred of them. They're everywhere."

Don't you see? This is it! The proof he was looking for all those years is at hand. Well, that or somebody engaged in a massive illegal pumpkin dumping operation.