It's finally here, and the weather is perfect. Be smart and look out for the little ones, but don't let anything steal your fun — unless your idea of "fun" is "being a dick to other people," in which case, by all means, stay home and have no fun.

OK, so a prescription pill reportedly showed up in a kid's bag of candy collected at a community trick-or-treating event in Riverview. This doesn't mean the shadowy forces of evil are intent upon loading up every child with bath salts disguised as rock candy. This just means, you know, be a parent and check your kid's haul.

Elsewhere in terrible Halloween mistakes, a Sebring man was arrested for selling costume/theatrical contact lenses via Facebook, because all contacts are considered medical devices not to be distributed without a prescription and if you buy contacts on Facebook you could fuck your eyes up something serious so don't do that. The dude also allegedly had pot bagged for sale on him, ostensibly to ease the glaucoma you're eventually going to get from wearing contact lenses you bought on Facebook.

A Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office deputy incurred multiple charges and has been suspended "pending termination" after he allegedly fled the scenes of two auto accidents in Largo before being apprehended, then attempted to flee the hospital on foot before being officially taken into custody. If you thought to yourself "maybe he was trying to find the real culprit and clear his name before they could put him in a cell," you don't know the difference between action films and reality and it's more than a little scary.

And finally, animals are digging up the bodies of people buried in a now-defunct Manatee County cemetery. Happy Halloween!

This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2017.