This image from 2017 represents a post-Halloween tradition in Nanaimo of discarding pumpkins along Jingle Pot Rd., in particular surrounding the East Wellington Fire Hall. (Sharon & Darrel Voss)
There's a pic I used to have up on my desk at work but can no longer find and wish I could; it showed the monster peeking through some bushes (I think it was in the very 1st movie) and saying, "Poison ivy! As if I didn't already have enough damn trouble."