FLATHEAD COUNTY: THE HORROR HAS JUST BEGUN

11:26 p.m. Someone on Mission Way may have been the victim of a ding dong ditch.

(Thanks to Jeff Meyerson)

Comments

[nursecindy]

WTH is a ding dong ditch?
3:28 p.m. A Hungry Horse man reported that a blue Mercedes has been parked on First Avenue for nearly two months. The caller wondered if he could have it.
I don't think the rule of "finders keepers" applies in situations like this.

[mazar larry]

The bearded man with one white shoe needs to come up with a better disguise if he expects to become a criminal mastermind.

[max]

4:57 p.m. A dog that had been spray painted orange was seen running in and out of traffic in Hungry Horse.

I'm sure there is a story here somewhere. I'm not sure I want to know what it is, but I'm sure there is a story.

[Not My Usual Alias]

Some people say that ringing a doorbell and running away is a victimless crime. Not on Montana. No sir.

[wiredog]

max,
There's a special place in hell for someone who would do that to a dog. Or cat. Any animal, really.

[Cheesewiz]

There is also the ding dong doody ditch which involves flaming feces on the front porch. Or have these days geezed by?

[Spiny Norman]

Nah, Cheesewhiz, it just ain't a proper "ding dong ditch" without the flaming bag of poo.

[Wolfsong]

Ding dong the ditch is dead?

[Steve]

Am I the only guy around who NEVER did the flaming bag of poo trick?
Anybody I wanted to do that to would have known it was me and my parents would have agreed.
That would have been unfortunate.

[Wolfsong]

Yes you wuss Steve, you ARE the only guy who never did the flaming poo trick. In the whole world.
Aren't you ashamed?

[Omniskeptic]

No, sorry, Wolf, there are two of us who never did that. When I was a boy, if we wanted to play a prank on someone, we just denounced him to the Inquisition or had his mother sold as a galley slave. Ah, those were the days.

[Wolfsong]

Wow Omni, I guess that makes you an UBER-Geezer....

[lizvocal]

There was an alarming number of loose dogs running around this story.

[PhilinTexas]

Reality show No. 438 to hit cable: Flathead County Animal Control

[Jon]

It's good to see Columbia Falls supports 'free range dogs'. It's just a shame their eggs are so much more expensive...

[Meanie the Blue]

Can't wait for Real Housewives of Flathead County.

[Jeff Meyerson]

*snork* at Omni.

I'm still waiting for an explanation of a 'ding dong ditch' however.

[Monique]

"I'm still waiting for an explanation of a 'ding dong ditch' however."

Correct me if this is wrong but I think it's where a person walks/sneaks up to someone's front door, rings their doorbell and runs away quick, so when the person (in the house) comes to the door in response to the doorbell, what the heck! no one's there!

The entertainment value of this caper - to anyone over 8 years old, anyway - has always escaped me but there you go.

[Ralph]

It's an old gag.

[Steve]

Ah, the old Wizard of Id.
"Come back here, you Wiwy-wivvered Wouse!", as best I remember it.

[Steve]

Is it a bad sign that I remember the punch line from a 30-year old cartoon but go to a family reunion and have no idea who most of those people are?

[funny man]

Isn't a ding dong ditch where they bury old Hostess bakery products? (I mean he ones who have exceeded 100 years)?

[FrankLJ]

Older than that:
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(Aide)Zeppo: This article is the work of Trentino. The man is trying to undermine you - now what are you going to do about it?

(President Firefly)Groucho: (thinks, then...) I've a good mind to ring his doorbell and run!!

'Duck Soup' -1933
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Never heard it called a 'ding dong ditch' tho - that must be ditch=abandon, or leave suddenly.

At first, I was thinking maybe someone ditched a Ding-dong in a public place and someone slipped on it - variant of the old banana peel gag. But Monique is probably right.

On the other hand who can say what may not be in the spare surreality that is Flathead County?