10/27/2026
PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Days before a local trunk-or-treat, an area man ran his car through the Lipton Car Wash on South Street and spent the afternoon detailing the trunk to what he described as “competition standard,” treating the event as “opening night.”
The man, whose 2015 Camry sources confirm would be parked in a lot handing out candy to children, left no surface unaddressed. “People think trunk-or-treat is about the decorations. It’s not. It’s about the canvas,” he said, vacuuming a cargo area that was already clean. “You can’t stage a haunted scene in a dirty trunk. The kids can tell. Kids see everything.”
Witnesses report the man wiped down the trunk liner “twice, to be safe,” arranged his candy “for sightlines,” and described a neighbor’s unwashed hatchback as “frankly, amateur hour.” He is said to have rehearsed opening the trunk “with the right timing” and to have referred to the other participating vehicles as “the field.”
Asked whether the children would notice whether his trunk was clean, the man said that question “disrespects the craft,” confirmed he had detailed the license plate “since it’s in frame,” and noted that you “only get one first impression, per trunk, per year.” He then stood back to assess the vehicle “from a child’s height.”
The other trunks could not be reached for comment. They are, he suspects, not ready.
THE SOUTH STREET SENTINEL — Pittsfield’s Paper of Record Since This Morning.
