'Candy Slingshots' to 'drive-thru treats': Americans prep for Halloween amid COVID-19

While coronavirus pandemic has showed Halloween celebrations across globe, re are many who’ve come up with ‘weirdly safe’ ways to go trick or treating. From dropping candy down a chute to flinging full-size candy bars via mini-catapults, people across America are devising ir own ggets and ways to celebrate eerie festival in ‘new rmal’. While a church near Cincinnati has offered people to hand treats to drive-by families, a haunted house in San Francisco has modified itself to scare people from safety of ir cars.

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“I’ve always loved Halloween. This has been a rough year for everyone,” Carol McCarthy, of New Jersey told Associated Press. “I’m going a little more over top than usual. re’s something about this year that I have to try a little harder to keep magic going,” she ded explaining her idea of making a 7 feet chute to drop candies to kids.

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While McCarthy, is busy cutting down PVC pipe to make chut, in neighbouring Columbus, Ohio, Julie Schirmer has been practising with her candy slingshot. “It breaks my heart to think that all that fun may t be well-vised this year. So I was thinking about it and trying to be creative,” she reckoned. In dition, she said that year she has opted for a “front-yard fire pit with socially distanced seating” inste of usual “potluck dinner.”

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Drive-thru Haunted House 

Besides individual alterations, re are many haunted houses that are mending ir ways to serve customers. According to Associated Press, “Pirates of Emerson” haunted house in San Francisco Bay area has become a drive-thru this year. facility w implies that all visitors could w maintain social distancing from safety of ir slow-moving cars for a 20- to 25-minute drive.

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