WHAT'S scarier than being accosted by a bloodsucking vampire on Halloween; how about a trip to hospital and being told some fake choppers may need to be removed with a saw?
Yep, we'd go with the menacing undead option too, however a woman from Alabama lamentably didn't get the luxury of multiple choice this week.
Anna Tew was initially chuffed when she finished off her zombie costume with a cheap pair of realistic looking fake vampire fangs, but when she couldn't prise them from her mouth by 2am the next morning she naturally grew slightly concerned.
"I even took a pair of wire clippers and cut the tips of them off," she said.
The bloody fangs were eventually removed by a dentist through hours of excruciating "picking and pulling".
There wasn't anything left to do other than grin and bear it.
A student in the USA has displayed a little more than the usual teenage attitude by baking her grandfather's ashes into biscuits to share with classmates.
The creepy incident took place at a school in Sacramento, California, with nine pupils sampling the somewhat sandy cookies.
Officials said they were at a loss to identify a motive, and would let the school handle the issue.
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