Halloween 2023

Halloween

Several cities have held naked pumpkin runs on Halloween, with people running around naked except for footwear and a pumpkin (or pumpkin facsimile) on their head.  

Previously we saw naked pumpkin runs in Boulder, Colorado.  Today's photos are from the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

I'm afraid this guy's headgear – a paper bag and some leaves – doesn't look much like a pumpkin, but I can't complain about the rest of his body.

Here are some naked pumpkin runners in Fremont in 2007.

In 2008, these pumpkin runners stopped into a garden store called The Indoor Sun Shoppe.

Then they went out by the statue called Waiting for the Interurban, greeting the Ride the Ducks tourists going by.

Here's a group in 2010 crossing the street.  As in many of these naked events, some women, like the one on the right, don't seem to grasp the concept of "naked."  Naked does not mean topless.  Naked means naked.

The same group crossing another street.

We end with the same group posing by the statue of Lenin in Fremont.  Wait a minute!  We know that Fremont is a very liberal neighborhood, but why is there a statue of Lenin there?

It turns out the statue came from Czechoslovakia.  After the USSR fell, many Communist monuments were toppled.  In 1993, an American found it in a Slovak scrapyard.  He bought it and brought it to Seattle, but he died before he could display it.  Since 1995 it has been "temporarily" displayed on this prominent street corner in Fremont.  Despite conservative criticism of the city government for endorsing "communist chic," the statue is actually on private property and the city had nothing to do with it.

But it makes for an interesting photo.

Happy Halloween!