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Which Halloween tableau is in poorer taste?

Gov. Sarah Palin hanging in effigy or this Los Feliz store display with a Manson family murders theme? That's a pregnant Sharon Tate, tied with a noose around her neck, facing Vermont Avenue. If you're too young to get the rest of the scene, you could look it up.

Manson scene

Click photo to see larger. Courtesy of Julie Horowitz, who complained to the store that she was deeply offended and says she was told the owner and staff had agreed the display was in the Halloween spirit.


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