In his prime, before drugs wasted him, the kid had drawn women the way the scent of raw beef brought Valet running.

"Like a picture a kid would draw," he said.

"How do you expect kids to draw the distinction?"

"I'm looking and all I'm seeing is a large stick figure that any kid could draw."

In children the risk is higher because kids don't draw a clear line between reality and fantasy.

But apparently the kids drew a big crowd on Saturday night.

He wouldn't even have noticed them if the kid with the ponytail hadn't drawn his attention to them.

"How the heck can this kid draw these things?"

"And the kids, with their imagination, draw a picture of what they think the Jersey Devil looks like."

The kids drew little men in the dust on the black Mercedes.