Highlights are mine:



Shannon Barrentine is a concerned mom whose children go to the neighborhood school at Dalraida.

"We got this letter," she said. "It came home in my child's notebook. It talks about a suspicious van in the neighborhood attempting to lure children."

The letter describes a white van with a blue flower painted on the side. The man inside is described as a white male between 30 and 45 with short brown hair.

C. J. Falcione is one of the dads who helped organize the effort.

"He was coming into the neighborhood, trying to lure little girls with some candy. They screamed and ran off," he said.

That wasn't the only incident, Falcione says.Another incident concerned an attempt to have children help a man find his puppy.

Falcione adds, "Our neighbors, we find out later, we came home from church, that same exact vehicle pulled up in front, very slowly in front of their house and what we thought maybe taking pictures of the children."

Neighbors got together to get the word out Tuesday. They distributed flyers.

The local school sent out copies, in order to educate parents like Barrentine.

She says, "I talked to my kids about it and told them what the van looked like."

The idea is that someone reading this story will recognize the van, know the driver and call the police.

Neighbors say the extra eyes and ears will keep everyone save.

There are also web sites where you can search for registered sexual offenders in your neighborhood:

that's pretty much the lyrics to a frogs song

"children run away from the man with candy"

children in the schoolyard, hard at play
man between the trees with his candy on the way...

run away
run away from the man with the candy
run away

children with the candy, in his van
drive to a secluded location, down with the pants

eerie.

Clearly a Mongering Monthly subscriber.

Let's all join hands and sing the Molo Anthem, "Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School" by Cheap Trick...

I can't believe the puppy and candy game still works.

Worked for you, eh?

Kids like puppies.



Kids like candy.

Ohg, ourg puppkeeg losk. Helpg usk....

Not Milwaukee's finest musical expert, but with age, I've come to respect them quite a bit more than when I saw them play the Rave Bar in Nov '97. Somehow, too, I think that "brothers" Jimmy & Dennis "Flemion" could do a bang-up job collaborating with Andrew W.K. (since I recall their performance being kind of a basic cable rendition of 80s acid-wash rock).

Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown
Kinko, Kinko, the kid loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown!!!

Kinko's in his Kinko car, pockets full of change
lots of dirty pictures and sticky candy canes.
All the kids love Kinko for the presents that they get
silly leather clothes to wear and happy cigarettes.

-Hi boys and girls, my name is Kinko the clown!!!
-Hi Kinko!!!
-And I really love you boys and girls!!!
Really, really....
-Awwww
-But my legs get tired standing out in the parking lot handing out
stale tootsie rolls to you rugrats, so if anyone wants to come back
to Kinko's trailer and massage his legs, he'd really really like it.
Really, really.....

Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown
Kinko, Kinko, the kid loving clown
if the kids just love me back I'll never wear a frown!!!

We go to Kinkos clubhouse, sometimes after school
we play in Kinkos crawl space, there's never any room
We have to sit on Kinkos lap there's never any chairs
Kinko likes to tickle us and give us funny stares.

-Gee I haven't had this much fun since Christmas when I got
to play Santa Claus and all the boys and girls got to sit on Kinko's lap-
-Mommy mommy! Kinko hurt me!-
-But that was in Indianapolis and thanks to the liberal reciprocity laws here
Kinko can be with you boys and girls today or anytime.

Jimmy Johnson ran away and didn't say goodbye
Kinko went to look for him to help the FBI
But Kinko has some handcuffs on his eyes were full of tears
said "I'll be back to play with you sometime in 20 years!"

Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown
the parents wanna beat me up and run me outa town!
Kinko, Kinko, the kid-loving clown
tar and feather Kinko and run him out of town!

-Bye boy's and girls!!!!
-Bye Kinko! See you at the turn of the century!
-Kinko really love you boys and girls!!
Really, really....