The kids knock on so may doors I figured that they would never be able to recall which sweetie treats came from which householder.

Hence a rather wicked selection of very peppery sweets

TONY

 

all we got so far is groups of teens(14-16 approx)in hoodies after extra cash for the **** an beer, watching their little face's as they walk away with 5p lollies(an taste like ****) handed out by my 2yrd dressed as dracula..........priceless!!!!!!

 

I fooked off down the pub

Although let the dog out in the back yard this morning and noticed some git smashed the light in the back garden had to clean all that up before the dog cut his foot which made me late for work too little sh!tes

 

I didn't get any trick or treaters come round at all last night, and was in all evening. I guess they were all out having fun joyriding stolen metros or blowing up yorkshire terriors with fireworks. Bless em.

The scoob was safely locked away in the garage as always.

 

No one dared to trick or treat chez-ajm... not one single snivelling brat!

 

I bought a 99p face mask but frightening as hell and when we got knocks on door I opened it slowly and peered around side with gentle scream. Worked a treat

PS. Think I'll keep it for door-to-door salesman (sorry salespersons )

 

We didn't have any visitors last night, mind you the dog was running loose in the front garden

 

Ditto

When what lurks behind the door is more scary than what comes a knocking, it tends to be quiet around here

 

You've met my wife then ?

 

I walked round our street with my two little uns all dressed up (2 and 4). People were mostly very nice but I saw one guy who just ignored the door, one who said can I have a treat and then shut the door (?) and strangest of all one guy who stood peering through the glass like a rabbit caught in the headlights. Finally he opened the door and literally just stood there, head cocked saying nothing for a good 30 seconds before going and getting a bar of (odd looking) chocolate... Strange bloke, real Jeffrey Dahmer behaviour.. Not lived in this street for long.. don't think I'll be letting the kids out on their own for a good few years!

 

I've got no problem with kids and their parents out trick-or-treating when they're dressed up and making an effort. It's the above that riles me. It basically means that we're paying protection money to the minority of little ******* who - if they don't get what they're after - resort to vandalism in revenge...

Still - the ones intent on causing trouble probably don't NEED the excuse of having been denied money etc in order to exact their revenge...

Happy days!

 

I would have happily dished out sweets to any kids that came knocking - but we didn't get any. I agree with the concerns about their safety and am always happier when I see they've got an adult supervising.


I asked for a Victor Meldrew forum a couple of weeks ago - fear it would be over subscribed.....

 

Most of the trick or treaters last night were just mid teenage delinquents out begging.

Last night I didn't bother opening the door, just setup the CCTV so I could monitor for anymore vandals (last time our wall got kicked down).

Out of the 8 different sets of callers, only one lot were young kids accompanied by an adult...the only genuine trick or treaters IMO. The rest were just unsurpervised mid/late teens that didn't bother dressing up..except for their hoods..... which reflects how bad our area is


In the end of the day, it's my home, and I have the right to refuse to answer the door - remember its because of the increasing level of unsupervised kids out there that is a root cause to UK's vadalism and petty crime problems (although I wouldn't call keying a car petty ). We don't have any sweets anyway (for diet reasons) and I refuse to give out money...I prefer give money to a bonafide charity.

Halloween isn't a UK tradition, it an adopted tradition......typical of the PC nimbys to to mess with and restrict our true traditions in attempt to protect "other races" yet totally ignore an adpoted tradition that incites begging, vandalism and assault.

 

My little boy had a great time (6), he went out at his mums bit first, then he came to mines. He ended up with about 4 bags off stuff & he was dressed as one of those glow in the dark skeleton's.

The rest of you boring muppets, i hope if / when you have kids people dont open the door's to you

 

I went to my nephews Halloween party, hes 5 and he and friends went out properly dressed up and looked really good. Came back with lots of sweets and then got soaked playing apple bobbing

 

At my girlies house last eve and I saw these older lads coming down the path so I went to the door, to be confronted by trackie wearing tosser asking if he could buy some weed ..

 

And there was me thinking that Halloween was derived from the Celtic festival of Samhain that we in fact exported over to North America ...

Thanks to Scoobynet I now know that it was actually bought over from 'foreign parts' by those PC do-gooders we hear so much about in yet another attempt to destroy the country. Thanks.

 

It is not British, just another Americanism. Carol singing is traditional British.

Les

 

Voderman ??

She cant sing !

 

...and the excuse for the next round of nuisance callers who just want my money to spend on **** and lager.

Is there actually a polite way to get across the message that "I don't want to stand here in the doorway, letting all the heat out of my house and missing the programme I'm watching, just to listen to yet another gang of teenagers murdering the first verse of 'Silent Night'?"

 

i hung my respirator up on the back of the door, ready to scare any little ****s who got past the dog in the front garden.
unsurprisingly, i didn't get to wear it last night (to scare anyone!) , and nothing got vandalised, and the dog had a great time out the front playing chase the intruders!

No worries!

 

I normally just watch the TV upstairs on nights like haloween, and turn the lights off.

It works better if you have bittorrentTV of course

 

Halloween is a British tradition; "trick or treating" seems to be an Americanism.

When I was young, in Scotland there was a Halloween tradition of guising. This meant getting dressed up in a Halloween costume and knocking on neighbours' doors. However, to get sweets, nuts, oranges, money, etc., you had to actually do something like singing a song, reciting a poem, telling a story, etc. There was also no "trick" element if someone didn't invite you in to do your performance.

Perhaps it has something to do with a work ethic, but little b'stards coming round on 31st October and expecting a hand-out for doing absoultely F-all and feeling free to throw eggs and/or flour if they get nothing can go and f*** themselves.

Doug (aka Victor Meldrew)