Top 2010 Halloween Scandal Costumes for Adults

Halloween is a great time to remind everyone of the scandals of the previous year with outrageous, irreverent costumes and caricatures. 2010 has left us with plenty of fodder for scandalous Halloween costumes, although you'll probably get more tricks than treats.

Halloween31's BP-Bad Planning costume takes a comical view of the BP Gulf oil spill disaster. The one-piece commercial version costs about $70 on Halloween31.com. You get a bright green jumpsuit with a BP decal that reads BP: Bad Planning. The entire jumpsuit is splashed with dark, brown oil stains. Add some greasy splotches on your face and carry a large wrench or tool. Of course, you can save some cash by skipping the Halloween one-year wonder and making your own oil spill costume. Scour thrift stores or borrow a pair of used coveralls from a local garage. Splotch it up with some dark grease and make your own BP logo from paper or felt.

Work with your best friend for a duo-costume. One of you can be BP CEO Tony Hayward, in a stiff British suit with a BP name-badge. Your friend can wear a stereo-typical Middle Eastern turban and go as BP's little darling, the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. If you have a third friend, let him don a Scottish kilt or Scottish Yard costume and the three of you can bask in your traitorous glory all Halloween night long.

Who's a better target for light-hearted celebrity bashing than Miss Lindsay Lohan? Lohan will be just getting out of jail around Halloween. Give the washed-up teen star a cute little prison jumpsuit bikini, some cell-brewed prison beer and a new filthy prison vocabulary.

If you really want to stir up the Halloween party, order your own highly criticized Illegal Alien costume, about $35 on Buy.com and Amazon.com. The punny Halloween costume comes with an orange jumpsuit with "Illegal Alien" stenciled in black across the front, a large-eyed alien mask and a large green card that reads, you guessed it, Green Card. For your own safety, avoid this controversial Halloween costume in the states of Arizona, California and any border towns.

Halloween falls right in the middle of flu season, and what's scarier than swine flu? Pick up a cheap pig nose or a full pig mask from a costume shop. Wear your bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, and dangle a thermometer out of your lips like a cigarette. Tie a large hot-water bottle to your head and threaten to breathe on people who annoy you at the Halloween party.

A similar costume lets you show how you feel about our nation's booming economy. Wear a money-green sweat suit and use green face paint to cover your face, hands and neck. Draw Ben Franklin's profile in various places on the green sweatshirt and pants. Cut a felt arrow in a jagged shape, but ultimately pointing down, and glue it to the front of the shirt. Steal the thermometer and hot-water bottle from the swine flu costume. Complain all night about how low you're feeling and how you're afraid you might crash any minute.

Unless you're going to a Halloween party for stock-brokers and financial pariahs, going as a laid-off iBanker is a soon-to-be classic Halloween shock costume. Wear an uppity business suit and slick back your hair with temporary gray highlights. Carry a large cardboard box around all night with your office personal items, like framed photos, your laptops and a fake plant. Ask everyone you see at the Halloween part if they're hiring.

Keep the Halloween spirit light, but socially conscious, with your own Bailout Drinks. You can use any drink with Jagermeister as the main ingredient, or any other green-colored liquor. Try mixing one ounce Jager with one ounce peppermint liqueur. Add a green candied cherry and offer all your guests a Bailout. For extra affect, the host should dress as Barack Obama when he passes out the Halloween Bailout cocktails.