Jewish Scarecrow Sighting

by Heshy Fried on June 30, 2008 · 12 comments

So I’m walking down the street in Baltimore this past shabbos and spotted a Jewish scarecrow.

Now how on earth could I tell it was Jewish you may ask!

Was it wearing a yarmulke? Was it holding a plate of kugel? Was it acting as a shadchun? Did it have a sign proclaiming to the world that it was Jewish?

Nope, but it had a sheitle on!

That’s right folks some ingenious woman had decided to make a scarecrow by sticking two of those Styrofoam sheitle heads onto sticks and then place a sheitle on top of them. If humans like myself are scared of sheitles I can only imagine what the crows were thinking as they aborted their garden eating mission.

I promise next time I am in Baltimore to get a picture.

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1 utubefan June 30, 2008 at 12:53 PM

Is this the same lady in Baltimore who does the famous Chanukah house with all the Christmas lights? I wonder.

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2 Child Ish Behavior June 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM

But what if the birds were idol worshiping ones? They would come flocking to the Indian hair wigs. Then we could all have idol poultry.

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3 heshman June 30, 2008 at 1:49 PM

It is possible that the wig was made of Indian hair- does that mean we could put a red dot on the forehead of the fake head?

Utube- I have no idea.

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4 Mikeinmidwood June 30, 2008 at 2:20 PM

We have to find the husband to this scarecrow. since she has a sheitel I assume she is married. Oh! she must have scared him off and now she doesnt have a get. So this person put up a scarecrow to show that there are many people out there who are an igunah and we should do something about it. or am I overinterpreting this.

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5 Child Ish Behavior June 30, 2008 at 3:40 PM

Nope, we should put some fake bird droppings on the hair just to let the birds know where to go.

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6 heshman June 30, 2008 at 3:53 PM

Mike I forgot to mention that one of the heads had no shietle- but it didnt have a yarmulke either so I wasn’t sure what to think.

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7 sharona June 30, 2008 at 6:09 PM

lol

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8 Future Druggie June 30, 2008 at 6:29 PM

I’ve seen people do that on purim:
broomstick + sheitel head + Mask = partner

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9 A Jewish Music Insider July 1, 2008 at 9:27 AM

So the next time you find sheitel….now you know what to do with it!

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10 heshman July 1, 2008 at 9:32 AM

Its funny because I wanted to make a chassidic couple pumpkin carving this year- some peyos and a turban is all you need.

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11 sheva July 2, 2008 at 9:12 PM

Hey tell me where it is and ill take a pic

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12 sheva July 2, 2008 at 9:17 PM

also you come to baltimore and don’t let us know. How could you not come to BAIS LUBAVITCH. You would come home with at least a weeks worth of Shul stories, because nothing mixes better than …….crothety old Chasidic men, Mashka ( booze), lots of screaming kids, and an amazing shul smell that is a mixture of herring and i don’t know what.

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