[quote name='Spacepest']My husband's family stopped decorating the exterior house and giving out candy on Halloween because of this. They lived in a nicer part of town, and all their neighbors decorated and gave out candy. However, people would drive from the nearby poorer city in van and busloads, drop off their kids in the neighborhood, and said kids (and preteens, teenagers, and a few adults) would act like hoodlums. And I'm not talking about normal trick or treat stuff (TPing houses, silly string, etc.)--I'm talking about criminal behavior that got police involved, like mugging little old ladies for their purses at the door when they answered it to give out candy, punching toddlers in the face to take their candybags. The last year they gave out candy, a woman in the neighborhood was robbed, beaten, and left laying immobile on someone's lawn by some trick or treaters. After that the entire neighborhood, within a few mile radius, decided to ban trick or treating and not give out any candy anymore.
I live in Las Vegas, and here, Halloween is lame. Very few people let their kids trick or treat, and if they do they don't even let their kids go out after dark. One year I lived next door to an ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and only saw 10 trick or treaters. The big thing out here is to take the kids to the mall, dump them off for a few hours, and then pick them up.
And what is with all the prostitot costumes lately?
And where I grow up, it is tradition not to give out candy until its dark outside. If you went a house in the afternoon, you would have straight out been told, "Its not even dark yet! Come back after the sun goes down" and then have the door shut in your face, candyless. I proudly insist on continuing this stubborn tradition; I refuse to hand out candy in broad daylight.
Our local stores had Halloween stuff come in over the summer, and clearanced most of it out in September! O_O
October usually ends up being an expensive month for me because I make short vacation trips for Halloween related stuff (Knott's Halloween Haunt, sometimes Universal, Disney etc.), so many years I may not be home early enough to give out candy, or even put up outside decorations.
I plan on decorating a little bit. I have some fake tombstones that are going out on my very small front yard. I'm also working on decorating my guest bathroom like one of Dexter's kill rooms.[/QUOTE]
damn thats some
ed up shit but my rule for t-o-t was always if you couldnt get there by foot you dont go. bussing in kids from other neighborhoods is very damn tacky. btw isnt everyday in vegas like halloween?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgSv1SKCteQ