When you are a kid, Halloween is all about the candy.  But adults know better.  Halloween is a chance to let out the inner freak, or inner slut, or inner asshole.  When I bother to get dressed up for the occasion, I always go for the third option.  Or at least I thought I did.  It turns out all I've really been showing is my inner giant wuss.

See, a few years ago, when I was still in graduate school, I had this "crazy" idea: I'd get three friends, and we'd go to a Halloween party dressed as 9/11.  Two guys would be the towers, one would be the pentagon, and one would be the grassy Pennsylvania field.  It's the kind of joke that is all the rage now, but back in 2004 it was still a little soon.

(Knock knock?) (Who's there?) (9/11.) (9/11 who?) (You said you'd never forget!!)
It was okay to wear the costume in the basement of the fraternity house, but when it came time to actually go out, I totally chickened out.  My friends understood, and people I knew understood, but the people in the outside world would not understand.  I didn't want to get my ass kicked on Halloween.  Totally understandable, right? RIGHT??

Well, Suzi was looking for Halloween costumes online yesterday, and she stumbled across a shocking sight.  I'm not shocked because somebody else thought of wearing 9/11 themed Halloween costumes.  I am shocked because:

They wore them out on the street.
They were 9 feet tall.
And they were SO MUCH BETTER THAN MY 9/11 COSTUME OMIGOD THEY ARE AMAZING I AM SO JEALOUS.


(Via.)

Before, I was too embarrassed to post pictures of my 9/11 costume because I thought it might be too much.  But now I am embarrassed to post them because it is too little.  My costume was actually lame.  I have just been served so hard - 9/11-Halloween costume style.