Halloween repeat offenders

[Talon]

So last night we got a few trick or treating kids. Or as I like to think of it as attack of the munchkin hoard :) Anyway two of the kids actually came around for a second candy-pass. I didn't think much of it at the time, but isn't that bad form?

Anyone else get this?

[Dria]

Yeah, I remember a couple of older (unsupervised) kids double-passing me when I was handing out candy at work last night. Mostly, though, the people who happened to walk by twice had little kids and wouldn't get more. These were usually the same people who didn't have a candy bucket for their kid-in-a-stroller -- more poor form, the kid should at least be old enough to walk up to me.

[MadMike]

My complaint is the high school kids. Not that they're doing anything bad, but isn't that a little old to be trick-or-treating? I went until I was 12, and then quit. My son quit after he turned 11.

[Phoenix79]

I too stopped trick or treating when I was 11.

Except for that one time when I was 15 and my friend thought it would be a great idea to get some free candy if we did some trick or treating. The first house we got to a really creepy guy answered the door . . . and gave us condoms and invited us in! We gave up and went home after that . . . he scared the crap out of us!

Phoenix - too old for trick or treating, but never too old for CANDY!!

[sportsmom]

We took our girls out last night and went to visit hubby's aunt a couple streets over. When we left her house we went to her next door neighbor's house and after he gave the girls their candy (a fullsize candybar and two 2 ft long pixie sticks each! Thanks S! :rolleyes: ) he offered hubby and I a choice of drink, including beer. :lol:

[MystyGlyttyr]

A friend of mine in his 30's took some of his nieces and nephews (ages 2—12, I think) out trick-or-treating. When I asked him what he was going as, he said "I'm going as the guy walking behind them carrying the excess candy."

He said he actually did pretty well for himself :lol:

[Plaidman]

We had a few trick or treaters, however the most common costume they wore was 'street person'. Ya know, the costume when they look like a normal person? Cept they MIGHT, just MIGHT have a fake scar that's put on by pen.


I really hate the lazy trick or treaters.

[MadMike]

We had a few trick or treaters, however the most common costume they wore was 'street person'. Ya know, the costume when they look like a normal person? Cept they MIGHT, just MIGHT have a fake scar that's put on by pen.


A former coworker, who was not happy at his job, and was a classic disgruntled employee, did that once when they still let us dress up for Halloween. He didn't dress up, and if anyone asked, he'd tell them, "This is my costume! I'm dressed as someone who gives a shit!"

[Rapscallion]

Police over here had to crack down on T&T as many youths in their teens are using it for extortion.

I kid you not.

We're talking with police having the power to give on-the-spot fines to trick & treaters. It's pretty much culturally-semi-accepted begging with menaces.

Fine for children below the age of ten, I reckon, but after that they can damn well work for it like everyone else.

Rapscallion, feeling old

[kibbles]

What do you mean that trick-or-treaters are given fines, what are the fines for? Is it for being menacing, playing pranks and stuff?

Kibbles

[Seanette]

A friend of mine in his 30's took some of his nieces and nephews (ages 2—12, I think) out trick-or-treating. When I asked him what he was going as, he said "I'm going as the guy walking behind them carrying the excess candy."

He said he actually did pretty well for himself :lol:
When I get trick-or-treaters, I always offer some candy to the adult/teen escorting the kids. They usually do take me up on it, and seem pleasantly surprised. :angel:

[Rapscallion]

Oh, saying trick or treat and then smashing the windows of someone's car if they don't treat in cash - things like that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6100132.stm for one article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1933680,00.html for another.

Charming, eh?

Rapscallion

[XCashier]

We had a few trick or treaters, however the most common costume they wore was 'street person'. Ya know, the costume when they look like a normal person? Cept they MIGHT, just MIGHT have a fake scar that's put on by pen.

I really hate the lazy trick or treaters.
:mad: We get those all the time. Hello, McFly, it's HALLOWEEN! Put on a costume! No, ordinary clothes do not constitute a costume, I don't care if you say you are a "plain clothes cop" or "homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else". No. That does not count. Even the kid who puts on a bedsheet and goes as a ghost has a better costume than that! Use your imagination and do something creative!
Oh, saying trick or treat and then smashing the windows of someone's car if they don't treat in cash - things like that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6100132.stm for one article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1933680,00.html for another.
Why does there always have to be some arsehole who has to ruin things for everyone else? Here's your treat, you thug! :chipper:

[CanadaGirl]

I think I stopped going out at around 15, after that it just felt silly. :lol:

[Kogarashi]

I believe I was about 14 or 15. But by that point, I was going with a group of friends and younger siblings, and we'd often wait until after all the little kids went so we weren't taking candy from them. I only had one lady throw a huge fit over it. Most other people didn't mind.

I do plan on dressing up when I'm out escorting my own children in the future. It's just no fun if you don't!

[lordlundar]

Last time I went T&T was actually going with a friend and we were escorting his young cousins. We got in the spirit and got in costumes as well.

We also made out like bandits too. (Ironically, I was dressed as a thief to boot.)

[Spiffy McMoron]

:mad: We get those all the time. Hello, McFly, it's HALLOWEEN! Put on a costume! No, ordinary clothes do not constitute a costume, I don't care if you say you are a "plain clothes cop" or "homicidal maniac, they look just like everyone else". No. That does not count. Even the kid who puts on a bedsheet and goes as a ghost has a better costume than that! Use your imagination and do something creative!

Ugh. That happened to me this year-a complete of people my age (college age) came by trick-or-treating. That I have no problem with-it's just that they had really lame costumes. I can't remember what he dressed as, but she was just dressed like somebody who was out for a walk on a winter's night-except she had on a snowmobile helmet. :sleep: Boring!

I was tempted to refuse them outright-not because they were pushing 25, and not because they had shitty costumes. I was tempted because I recognized the girl as the annoying bitch on the bus who yells into her cellphone-it's gotten to the point where I can hear other passengers audibly groaning in displeasure when she picks up the phone.

[Cia]

My DH told me that a 17 - 18 year old came to our house T&T. DH gave him candy because the guy was dressed up like a cheerleader - short skirt, middriff shirt, tennies, pom-poms, pig-tailed wig and make-up. This costume took some guts to wear because it was 17F that night.

[Talon]

Oh, saying trick or treat and then smashing the windows of someone's car if they don't treat in cash - things like that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6100132.stm for one article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,1933680,00.html for another.

Charming, eh?

Rapscallion

Why oh why is it that whenever I think I've heard/seen it all something like this pops up? And usually from this website no less. Hope the junior-mafia wannabes get theirs :mad:

Now that I think about it there were a couple kids not dressed up, but the evening was getting cold so I don't blame them. Besides somehow the thought of opening the door to youngsters unzipping the jackets to flash their um.. costumes at me just doesn't sit right in my dirty mind. Can't imagine why...

[Jpurple]

Heh- the last time I went T&T myself I was driving...but I was taking my little brother with me, and I did dress up, so please don't kill me!

This year I was the only adult in our group dressed up- 8 kids, 5 adults. The kids made out like bandits, and the adults did pretty well too! Trick-or-treating is sort of a novelty around here- we went to co-worker's and friend's places only, because the locals would have no idea what we were doing. 4 of the kids in the group had never been trick-or-treating before. (They're from New Zealand, Australia, and China, if you're curious)