Meat for Sale

[00:00:00] Welcome to Scary Story Kids. My name is Edwin and today's story is about a man who

[00:00:06] struggles with the neighborhood kids because they mess up his yard. Little do they know,

[00:00:11] but he has a plan to scare them away. Are you ready? Here we go.

[00:00:22] It was one of those days where the clouds worked hard to cover up the sun. Sunny, then

[00:00:28] cloudy, then sunny again. Mr. Binkman was looking out the window angry at just thinking that a swarm

[00:00:36] of kids was about to get out from school and walk down his street. He had tried everything

[00:00:43] from acting mean to spring the water hose across a yard. He had made a kid cry that way.

[00:00:51] Did it hurt? Of course it didn't. He had gotten complaints, many of them, mostly from angry

[00:00:59] parents passing by. Well, that's until one of the kids' moms came by recording him with their cell

[00:01:06] phone. Mr. Binkman had already gotten training though. His daughter had told him to be careful.

[00:01:13] If they record him and he goes viral, that will be the end of him.

[00:01:18] One thing about him though is that he was an honest man. Those who knew Mr. Binkman back when

[00:01:24] he was younger would say that he was one of the kindest souls it was always smiling, but those kids

[00:01:32] had worn him out. They would jump around his front yard and like to roll down the tiny hill he

[00:01:39] had built over the years, many years from all of the leaves and dirt he had gathered as he perfected

[00:01:45] as garden. Flowers of all kinds and colors lined his fence, the most richest, darkest dirt

[00:01:54] lined the edges to help his plants grow, and those kids were ruining it all.

[00:02:04] There were four of them mainly, and he would refer to them by names he had given them.

[00:02:10] Water Kid, who was the kid who had cried from getting sprinkled by the water hose.

[00:02:16] Ponytail, the girl with the messiest ponytail ever.

[00:02:20] Belly, who was the one whose shirt was too short for him, and Belly's younger sister,

[00:02:27] Boo Gurk Girl because well you get the point. It was like they were taunting Mr. Binkman so much that

[00:02:36] anyone really knowing his story would feel sorry for him, but not these kids.

[00:02:41] Ever since Water Kid's mom complained and said that she would call the police on him,

[00:02:46] the kid felt more powerful than ever and would stand there on top of the hill of Mr.

[00:02:52] Binkman's yard and just wait to be seen. But Mr. Binkman had a plan.

[00:03:00] He had seen it somewhere in a movie or a TV show. He was going to scare those children once and for

[00:03:10] all. And so he went to the hardware store and got a piece of wood, but then he needed paint,

[00:03:18] so he chose a colored red. He had a saw to cut the wood at his house so he skipped getting one

[00:03:25] of those, but at the cash register he made sure to pick out his favorite candy bar. He then paid

[00:03:31] and drove back home. Oh it was going to be so good. He unloaded everything and got to the garage.

[00:03:40] He got the board of wood into the perfect size, the square. He fixed the sides and there it was.

[00:03:48] Then he changed his mind. A sign like this must not look perfect, so he cut along an edge to make it

[00:03:55] just a little bit crooked. He looked at it and then got the paint ready. This was going to scare those

[00:04:02] children once and for all. He could already imagine the looks on their faces that would see the sign

[00:04:10] and let her by letter. Mr. Binkman traced the words and then stepped back.

[00:04:16] Children need for sale. Now came the hardest part, the waiting. He needed for darkness to arrive in

[00:04:26] order to put up the sign on the yard. The next afternoon Mr. Binkman eagerly waited by his window

[00:04:34] until finally. He saw the herd of them leaving the school, like ants crawling out of their colony.

[00:04:42] Water kid was a first to see it. He walked up to it, read it and then took off running right

[00:04:47] across the street, probably to go get his mom. But then ponytail and the other two came by with

[00:04:55] their backpacks. Belly pointed at the sign but Bougar girl didn't know how to read because she

[00:05:01] walked up to it and had no reaction. Mr. Binkman was holding back his laughter although he couldn't

[00:05:08] keep it in once he saw their reactions. The rest were pulling Bougar girl away and running toward

[00:05:14] the sidewalk. His plan had worked. Finally, it was time to celebrate and so he got the large candy bar

[00:05:24] he had bought at the hardware store then sat in front of the television to watch his game show.

[00:05:30] But just when it was about to start, it was a knock on the door. Mr. Binkman opened the door and

[00:05:38] saw water kids mom standing there shouting at him angrily a phone in her hand. She was going to

[00:05:45] record him. He tried to close the door but this angered the woman even more saying that she would

[00:05:51] call the news and the police and she even say the president of the United States. He managed

[00:05:59] to close the door and the woman eventually left. What happened next made Mr. Binkman think twice

[00:06:05] about his prank. Had it been worth it? He would get phone calls from the local television shows,

[00:06:12] people claiming to be YouTubers and curious people with stand outside of his house.

[00:06:18] His daughter told him not to draw any attention to himself and to just wait it out.

[00:06:24] And that he did. Four days after that things had died down and had gone back to normal

[00:06:34] but one thing had changed. The kids were no longer jumping around his front yard and destroying his

[00:06:40] garden. And so Mr. Binkman continued with his life watching television and tending to his garden in

[00:06:47] the afternoons fixing things up here and there. But one day while his television show was almost over

[00:06:58] he got a phone call. He walked over to it and picked it up.

[00:07:05] Hello, he said. After a little while he heard from the other end.

[00:07:11] And I'm calling about the sign. Oh no, he thought to himself and he was about to hang up.

[00:07:22] That's when he heard the person on the other end say, desperately, wait, wait. Mr. Binkman waited

[00:07:32] for him to continue without saying another word. And then from the other end he heard,

[00:07:46] how much is it?

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