Saturday, February 5, 2011

Hit them with your best shot.


One look was all Rick Minerd needed.
"It hit me instantly," said the Columbus resident, whose entry to the 34th Dispatch Caption-Writing Contest took first place.
The panel depicted two youngsters trick-or-treating and a woman at the door who had apparently fainted.
The kids in the panel -- drawn by Jeff Stahler, also the newspaper's editorial cartoonist -- didn't seem frightening, so Minerd surmised that the lady was shocked by their kindness.
A retired Obetz police chief, Minerd knows a lot about human behavior. His quip is just an observation, he said, not an indictment of young people.
His submission appealed to Stahler, who said: "The irony in being polite on Halloween seemed to rule out the fact that the trick-or-treater wasn't in much of a costume. It seemed very natural coming from the witch." copyright Columbus Dispatch 2009

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