Beware of pumpkin lacerations this Halloween, government warns

Every holiday has its own unique flavor of maimings and maulings, and as we approach Halloween, a government agency has a warning: beware of pumpkin lacerations.

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is in charge of keeping us safe from our own belongings, and its Twitter account often posts darkly funny warnings about common hazards, particularly around the holidays. For Christmas, the commission rolls out burning trees. At the Fourth of July, we can watch fireworks decapitate and dismember dummies. And for Halloween, apparently, we get a cringing pumpkin that warns us about the dangers of slicing up its fellow gourds.

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