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OK, as you know, yesterday was Halloween, which means Sunday was "devil's night." We all know what goes on on devil's night; toilet papering, tic tacking (throwing dried corn kernels at windows), window soaping, egging.......When I was a kid, every tree was covered in paper, there were dried corn kernels everywhere and the occasional window was soaped. I woke up yesterday morning to find NOTHING, no trees had toilet paper, no dried corn everywhere, no soap on windows, no eggs. I admit that my neighborhood is VERY quiet, but it was the same neighborhood I grew up in, and I reeked havoc! I am disappointed in these kids......slackers.

It's called accountability. Instead of being upheld physically and verbally, now it's upheld legally where the parents get sued b/c their kids threw toilet paper and eggs at someones house. It's pretty sad actually. "I'm going to sue someone", that's the magic words these days, the get rich quick plan!

Yeah, we did all that stuff too... well except for the dried corn thing??? what's up with that??? ...but anyway, it required effort, planning, and ambition. We had to "stock up" on the stuff because stores wouldn't sell it that day. We had to plan an excuse why we were going out (have friend call and say they needed a ride), we had to plan our wardrobe (all black including a mask usually worked best), then we had to actually go out and DO IT. Run (sneak) through the neighborhood carrying all our "stuff" without being detected, selected our targets (usually random but sometimes intentional) and execute the deed in a coordinated attack. We also had to have a backup plan and an escape route planned. It took alot of effort. Kids these days just ain't got it like that... they can only think and travel as far as the cord on their PS2 controller.

Speaking of Devil's Night pranks...Did you ever "fork" someone or been "forked"? You get a bunch (like hundreds!) of plastic forks and stick them all over someone's lawn. Looks pretty funny the next day.... their lawn is all forked up!

we didnt even have a kid knock on the door for halloween.so i get all the candy!!

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »we didnt even have a kid knock on the door for halloween.so i get all the candy!!Yep, I had one kid in a crappy clown costume, I have a bunch of candy for myself now.And no, I've never forked someone's lawn, that sounds fun though. We never did the eggs though, too messy. But as far as the corn goes, you get dried corn ears (very easy for me because my parent's back yard was connected to a corn field.) You take the dried corn off of the cob and put in in a container to carry (an old sock worked the best) and you would throw it at house windows so it makes a really loud noise against the window and side of the house and does no damage. Ahh the good old days.

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants » I admit that my neighborhood is VERY quiet, but it was the same neighborhood I grew up in, and I reeked havoc! I hope for your new wife's sake you don't reek anymore We haven't had a trick or treater come to the house on Halloween for at least ten years. Kind of a non-event. As a kid, we didn't do tricks much, it was all about the treats. Start out as soon as you got home from school, and take a route that worked it's way out and back, in a daisy pattern, because you'd get so much candy you had to stop back at home to unload before going out again. Take along a spare costume or two in case you found a house that gave out really good stuff, like a can of soda or a full size candy bar, hit them several times. Advantages to growing up in a huge suburban sprawl, nothing but free candy for a far as you could walk.

In Detroit people used to burn down abandon houses! Boy do they know how to do it up!!!Now they have Angels Night in which local citizens patrol at night to stop the house and stolen car burnings. It starts thee days before Halloween.

Quote, originally posted by joatmon »As a kid, we didn't do tricks much, it was all about the treats. Start out as soon as you got home from school, and take a route that worked it's way out and back, in a daisy pattern, because you'd get so much candy you had to stop back at home to unload before going out again. Take along a spare costume or two in case you found a house that gave out really good stuff, like a can of soda or a full size candy bar, hit them several times. Advantages to growing up in a huge suburban sprawl, nothing but free candy for a far as you could walk.Fo us it was all about the costumes and candy. (Didn't go so far as to take spare costumes though ). It was always one of my favorite holidays. Always loved carving pumpkins too. Not many tricks played, but the streets were always crawling with kids and people had big displays on their porches and front yards. One guy would sit on a hay bale outside his door and pretend to be a stuffed scarecrow. Would suddenly grab at the kids after they rang the doorbell. Great fun!Seems to be less of an event nowadays (all the retarded "Fall Festival" PC crap isn't helping I'm sure) but we still get lots of kids. Ran out of candy the last two years!

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »we didnt even have a kid knock on the door for halloween.so i get all the candy!!Same here...except in my case it's little individual packs of animal crackers because I figured they'd have enough chocolate. But I didn't even get a single trick or treater. So now I have 36 packs of animal crackers. Heh.

Speaking of Detroit...A few years ago (actually about 17 years now! wow!) when the Devils Night fires were at their worst, I was attending University of Detroit (located in the lovely slum area of 6 Mile & Livernois, for those who know the area). I lived on campus in the dorms on the top (7th) floor and we could look out and watch the fires. Quite a sight! So anyway, we broke the lock on the fire door leading to the roof and went up on the rooftop to watch. Then we got the bright (alcohol induced) idea to hit golf balls off the roof. So there we were... in the darkness of the night, fires burning around us, sirens wailing, whacking golf balls off the roof of a 7 story building out into the city. It was just surreal! The things you learn in college!

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »we didnt even have a kid knock on the door for halloween.so i get all the candy!!Same here.My favorite prank we ever did was when we took about 150 frozen hotdogs that were left over from a friend's family reunion, and we went and threw them all at a specific person's housethis would be similar to the fork idea, but imagine waking up to 150 hotdogs in your front yard

Funny story!

i live in a house right by campus and we only had 2 little kids stop by a lady bug and something else... lol little kids they could barely carry their candy bag. have you noticed the "fun" size candy bars are small!!! smaller than they used to be..i call them "diet" size now

Quote, originally posted by Kari »Same here...except in my case it's little individual packs of animal crackers because I figured they'd have enough chocolate. But I didn't even get a single trick or treater. So now I have 36 packs of animal crackers. Heh.A vegetarian (or vegan, not quite sure) handing out animal crackers......Tofu=fake meat (among other things)Animal crackers=fake animalsOh sweet sweet irony.

Quote, originally posted by northvibe »have you noticed the "fun" size candy bars are small!!! smaller than they used to be..i call them "diet" size now What is so fun about less candy? (thank you StrongBad)

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »When I was a kid, every tree was covered in paper, there were dried corn kernels everywhere and the occasional window was soaped. I reeked havoc! .so your the one!!!!!

Quote, originally posted by gargoyle »Did you ever "fork" someone or been "forked"? You get a bunch (like hundreds!) of plastic forks and stick them all over someone's lawn. Looks pretty funny the next day.... their lawn is all forked up!Back in my sorority house days, some of my sisters and myself did this to one of the frats down the street. Only thing is, on the handle of each fork sticking out of the ground, we put a hot dog. It was the funniest thing you have ever seen. Man, I am crying from the laughter of thinking back to this.

I grew up in a suburb so there were a lot of houses to get candy from. It was a sea of kids going to and fro. Peolpe would just about get the door closed when another group would walk up.I n my teen years we would have egg and shaving cream fights. Fire exstinguishers were used by those older teens in cars. The ones with water in them were shot out the car window to drench there victems. We always had to watch out for them. As for tricks, eggs in mail boxes or on the house or car. Shaving cream also. yuesterday I had a few trick or treaters. But my house is not on the good loop so it gets passed up. There was a few teen that were throwing eggs outside my house. I was worried for my car but no eggs were thrown back.

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »What is so fun about less candy? (thank you StrongBad)exactly, see the new fun size candy is smaller than the old fun size candy....ERRRR candy producers are ripping us off again!!

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »A vegetarian (or vegan, not quite sure) handing out animal crackers......Tofu=fake meat (among other things)Animal crackers=fake animalsOh sweet sweet irony. A vegetarian handing out semi-healthy Halloween non-candy...makes perfect sense to me. And actually I didn't need to eat a whole bag of candy by myself if I did get stuck with it so that's why I bought animal crackers. And there were a lot in the bag, for $2.And I don't eat much tofu, unless someone else is cooking it and they're good at it...lol

This was my first Hallowe'en with trick or treaters at my door in my entire life! Where I grew up was outside the city, so no kids on Halloween. Then I moved to Ottawa, but lived in high rise apartments so no kids on Hallowe'en. This year though I'm in a subdivision so lots of kids! I estimate about 100.

ya know, i didn't even see one single smashed pumpkin! (no billy corrigan jokes please)

Quote, originally posted by northvibe »have you noticed the "fun" size candy bars are small!!! smaller than they used to be..i call them "diet" size now Diet is a great word for them! They are smaller now! Cheap'os!!!! Otherwise we went through 4-5 bags of candy...

well, yet again i didn't have a single trick or treater come to my barracks room, kinda lame i know but you know i was all dressed up as an army man

Quote, originally posted by drunkenvibe »i didn't even see one single smashed pumpkin! Yep, I was fully planning on yelling at the trick-or-treaters for not doing anything but only one person showed up and she was a little kid, so I couldn't yell at her, plus I would have looked like an idiot considering her parents were there too. I think I will have to take matters into my own hands next year.

We got egged a couple years ago and caught the kids that did it. They were bragging about it in front of my kid - morons! So I called their parents and they showed up in the freezing cold with scrubbers and cleaning gunk that froze as they scrubbed (it was REALLY cold that year) and I made them get up on my ladder and clean off the windows, the sills, the brick, the garage door - all of it. One kid ended up moving out of the neighborhood (probably not because of me I'm sure) the other one I still see once-in-a-while and he gives me nothing but respect. Lawyers be danged for things like this, stand up and take care of your own problems.(And yes, I was an egger and pranker growing up too...)

I've never done egging, like I said, because that requires too much work to clean up for the prankee. But toilet paper on the other hand, just a little clean up and there is nothing like a tree covered in TP.

http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/Na....htmlQuote »Devilish doo-doo prank ignites panicBy Sun MediaWINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg teen is being hailed as a hero for helping his family to safety after a prank got out of hand and destroyed his home.Jordan Feasey, 16, was sleeping in his family's mobile home last weekend, when his mom awoke and noticed something was amiss."She got up and looked out the window, and saw there was a fire on our outside deck," said the teen's dad, Mel Ottenbreit.The fire was started by someone who left a flaming bag of fecal matter on the family's doorstep, police said yesterday.It quickly spread, blocking both the trailer's exits, so Jordan's mother woke him up and called on him to help.Jordan then rushed to wake up his little brother and sister.His mom, Susan Feasey, had already called 911, so the family could do little but watch as flames engulfed their home.Damages are estimated at $120,000.Jordan's quick thinking has already earned him a letter of commendation from the Winnipeg Fire Department.Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy, known to the family, who faces arson charges. http://www.winnipegsun.com/New....htmlQuote »Jordan's mom, Susan Feasey, had already called 911, so the family could do little but watch as flames engulfed their Downs Village home, eventually causing $60,000 in structural damage and $60,000 in damages to its contents.

OK, there is nothing funny about that story, but something I do find odd. A mobile home........damages are estimated at $120,000. How big of a trailer was that? What was it made of?

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »OK, there is nothing funny about that story, but something I do find odd. A mobile home........damages are estimated at $120,000. How big of a trailer was that? What was it made of?it's as if i typed that myself>

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »OK, there is nothing funny about that story, but something I do find odd. A mobile home........damages are estimated at $120,000. How big of a trailer was that? What was it made of?Manufactured homes aren't what they used to be. Let's just put it that way. Yeah, nothing funny about that at all. How sad for that family.

I see mobile homes and manufactured homes as 2 completely different things I guess.

"Damages" probably also includes their belongings, not just the home itself, I would think.

Quote, originally posted by Kari »"Damages" probably also includes their belongings, not just the home itself, I would think.But still....what did they have in there? I'm really not trying to be a *insert name here*. I just find it hard to believe.

Well if you consider that it may have destroyed cars, posessions and the home...Consider that a modestly sized (1300 SqFt) 2-section manufactured is roughly $60K-$70K, add in a car or two and a family-worth of posessions and you can go from there.

actually, i saw million dollar mobile homes on the discovery channel! they were no bigger than the stereotypical ones, but they were in aspen colorado.

See but I'm thinking trailer...not manufactured home...maybe that is where I'm going wrong, they said mobile home, but I've never seen a trailer with a garage. If you really think about it, every home is mobile if you have the time and money.

Quote, originally posted by Mr. Poopypants »But still....what did they have in there? I'm really not trying to be a *insert name here*. I just find it hard to believe.Well, I have an estimated $15,000 worth of stuff just in my little one bedroom apartment, and just for one person, so a family's stuff, plus even without a garage it could easily spread to a car that's parked nearby, so that's definitely possible...I dunno, I don't see it as being very farfetched. *shrug*