There's a new Halloween costume for kids this that's making waves this year: the Invisible Child. All over Pinterest, you can see parents breathessly sharing what they believe is a super-clever costume, many posts inluding a #unique hashtag, somehow missing the fact that this costume insanely dangerous. The costume basically consists of dressing your child in all-black clothing or bodysuits so that no skin is visible. Wow. How #unique. Unsurprisingly, this costume also makes your child #uniquely likely to be hit by car while trick-or-treating. Earlier this month, the Today Show featured a report on the invisible costumes, and many news outlets have spread the warnings. Kids are already twice as likely to be hit by a car on Halloween, and one can only imagine how much that likelihood shoots up when your child is literally invisible to drivers. Whyyyyyyy do people think this is a good idea?!  This costume is so bad that it is literally a joke. A huge joke. On the most well-known comedy show ever. By one of the most-famous comedians on earth. Fans of early Saturday Night Live will remember the Dan Aykroyd character, Irwin Mayway, who was a frequent guest on Candace Bergern's Consumer Probe. As Mayway, Aykroyd played a sketchy toymaker who defended such products as the Pretty Peggy Ear-Piercing Set, Doggy Dentist, and, most famously, Bag O' Glass. In a Halloween edition of SNL, Aykroyd presented the costume "Invisible Pedestrian" to enormous laughs. The reason the bit was so hysterical was because OF COURSE no one would ever dress their child in all black for a night of walking around in the dark. Only a giant fool would ever do that, and no parent would be stupid enough to buy it. This sketch was in 1976. But now, in 2015, we have to have the Today Show tell us to reign it in with the "clever" costume.  Defenders of the costume claim that you can make it safe for trick-or-treating by having your child carry glowsticks, because kids are well-known for not misplacing items. Others claim that you will be with the child, and we all know that children aren't impulsive creatures who will dart out into the street or ever do anything against their parents' wishes. If a child were hit while wearing this costume, no police officer on earth would fault the driver. How would you feel if the death of your child was so obviously preventable that it didn't even result in a traffic ticket? And just imagine how the driver would feel!  Please: don't make your child responsible for their own safety. Don't make trick-or-treating ridiculously stressful because you dressed your child as a SNL joke and have to keep them on a leash. Just say no to the invisible child costume.