Woman wants the less fortunate kids to stay out of her 'hood on Halloween

[mikeford]

Halloween door to door is pretty much dead, but I recall the mess it was for a time. What would happen is a truck or a car load of kids from someplace else would descend on the neighborhood, not young kids, but mostly high school aged and they would work the street like pros, crossing lawns, diving in front of other kids, basically running from one end of the street to the other hopping back in the truck and heading for another street.

Ruined it for the younger kids, and door to door trickled down to almost nothing, then the malls got into the free candy business and door to door was over in most places.

John Voight was in some movie where this was part of the plot, he loaded up a bus with poor kids and drove them to a nice neighborhood and turned them loose to collect.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Here you go again...baiting. Then you fucking bitch and moan to the mods about people ganging up on you. GTFO.

Also, how do you know what goes on in every fucking neighborhood in America? Here's some real-world information for you, MINO...

I live in an upper-upper income area, houses in the $1m to $4m range and we do, indeed, see SUV's full of people on Halloween. They dump the kids off at one house and drive up one or two houses and wait for the kids to hit houses on both sides of the street. On to the next block, rinse and repeat. It is EXACTLY as Butch states in his post...almost to a 't'.

We used to decorate the house and front part extensively and have mini haunted house in the garage. It would take a week to get everything in order. We'd pull all the cars out of the garage and put them in back to use the 4 spaces for the mini-haunted house. When majority of trick-or-treeters were neighborhood kids, it was awesome and lots of people came not only for the candy but also the walkthrough for the 'scaries'. When it became apparent the majority of the trick-or-treeters were being hauled in by the truckload and simply wanted their handfuls of candy, we eventually wound down our decorating. We won't be doling out the candy this year either...yay for Halloween parties.

This guy gets it.

What was once a neighborhood activity is now a mexico run for the border to the houses with lights on game of dumping kids by the busload.

It's not fun anymore. It's not a neighborhood anymore. You don't know anyone anymore. Kid are incredibly rude and poorly mannered. I don't know how else to explain it, but the majority of people here that don't understand probably don't even hand out candy to understand.

 

[Remobz]

I have heard this more than once in my life and I have encountered people that are pissed that they think 'ghetto kids' are coming into their lower middle class neighborhoods.

Whether or not this was a trololo, people do think this way and it's sad. They are just fucking kids.

Same here.

 

[szechuanpork]

When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands- Deuteronomy 24:19

 

[Paladin3]

The last two places were I've lived we got heavy drive-in trick-or-treaters. We always make sure to have lots of candy on hand for them, but I get a bit peeved at the ones who tramp across flower beds and through shrubs while dropping candy wrappers in their wake. I've seen toddlers get run over by the stampeding herds.

I taught all 3 of my kids to be polite, say thanks and stay on the walkways. Parents who can't control their kids need to be sterilized so they can't make more.

I'll be glad to host your kids for trick-or-treating, so long as they aren't damn animals.

/getoffmylawn

 

[Belegost]

So I think the situation with trick-or-treating is location dependent. For years we've taken our kids over to my in-laws (father-in-law is huge on Halloween...) and FIL and my wife take the kids out while my MIL and I sit out with the bucket of candy and my FIL's creepy décor. This was an upper middle class area in SoCal.

Did we see a lot of kids we knew came from the low income housing a couple miles away? Sure. So they got extra, and louder compliments on whatever costume they had. They need a fun night with costumes and candy more honestly.

We would get the groups of older kids, and a years ago my MIL got a bit upset. But we talked about it, and we kind of realized that a lot of it was being in-between - not really an adult able to go to adult parties, and not really a kid to go out with my mom and dad. And we decided that we wouldn't bug them about it as long as they were respectful. A few times we had some getting a bit out of hand, but we found most were reasonable.

We moved into a new area this year, so I'm hoping the area is good about it, some of the negative stories here make me worried, but...

 

[Slew Foot]

gates keep the poor assholes out

 

[jagec]

gates keep the poor assholes out

Ah, the nouveau riche...

 

[BUTCH1]

This guy gets it.

What was once a neighborhood activity is now a mexico run for the border to the houses with lights on game of dumping kids by the busload.

It's not fun anymore. It's not a neighborhood anymore. You don't know anyone anymore. Kid are incredibly rude and poorly mannered. I don't know how else to explain it, but the majority of people here that don't understand probably don't even hand out candy to understand.

Yup, thanks for clarifying, it used to be neighborhood kids dressed up and acting polite, I enjoyed giving out the candy and saying hi to the kids but now it's all changed, mostly older kids who have the audacity to complain if your free offerings didn't meet their expectations, then when I saw I was one of 3-4 houses with the lights on last year I pulled the plug on it, it's a shame too as it should be an event enjoyed by all but has degraded to a bad joke, one "kid" last year needed a shave and had a leather jacket on, I was going to ask him if he was the "Fonz" or offer him a beer LOL..

 

[alkemyst]

yeah they do. We go to a friends house and let the kids go around the block wit his kids. We sat in the driveway drinking beer and giving candy away. kids would get out of cars and run up then run back. it was fucking silly.

but i would put it at 20% doing that vs %80 walking. still its fucked up

You live out in the country, probably huge distances between homes.

I would really like to see videos of this happening en masse anywhere (I really doubt most of our greedy members 1) even handout candy 2) are not really living with their parents still and just bitter).

In 'normal' neighborhoods, you are talking about 100 or so feet between doors, in the townhome communities more living in like 20-30' between every 2-6+ unit buildings.

If you are talking in acreage areas, then it would make sense; but seriously why would parents bring their kids to those when more heavily populated and more than likely more wealthy neighborhoods exist.

The key thing that most of you just paying Devil's Advocate or more than likely just going to troll/argue with me is that if this was really happening in any high level in a neighborhood with 'tons of imported' trick-or-treaters is that there would be massive traffic jams at each house and other back-ups.

It simply is not true. What's happening is you are either lying/exaggerating, it's just the parents dropping kids off in a neighborhood and shuttling them sub-division to sub-division, or that one person that's an idiot.

 

[alkemyst]

You'd think the recent loss in his life would have changed him somewhat...nope...still the utter douchebag he's always been.

Apparently, he has the power to be in all neighborhoods in the US at one time...amazing.

For being called TheFamilyMan, you are a sad and angry, little man. Nice personal attack on someone's loss of a mother.

 

[VirtualLarry]

That gives me an idea. I should go trick-or-treating too, and instead of asking for candy, I'll hand them a business card. Maybe get a few leads. Crazy thought?

It would probably work better if I had kids though. It would be pretty weird to go trick-or-treating as an adult.

If anyone comes to my door, I might hand out a few flash drives. Maybe I should buy some more, the 8GB Sandisk drives are $4.00 ea at Staples.com right now.

Edit: Last year, I bought some candy, but no-one showed up, so I ended up eating it all and gaining a few pounds.

 

[halik]

You live out in the country, probably huge distances between homes.

I would really like to see videos of this happening en masse anywhere (I really doubt most of our greedy members 1) even handout candy 2) are not really living with their parents still and just bitter).

In 'normal' neighborhoods, you are talking about 100 or so feet between doors, in the townhome communities more living in like 20-30' between every 2-6+ unit buildings.

If you are talking in acreage areas, then it would make sense; but seriously why would parents bring their kids to those when more heavily populated and more than likely more wealthy neighborhoods exist.

The key thing that most of you just paying Devil's Advocate or more than likely just going to troll/argue with me is that if this was really happening in any high level in a neighborhood with 'tons of imported' trick-or-treaters is that there would be massive traffic jams at each house and other back-ups.

It simply is not true. What's happening is you are either lying/exaggerating, it's just the parents dropping kids off in a neighborhood and shuttling them sub-division to sub-division, or that one person that's an idiot.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...0x880fd317da827c69:0xd9d02f02a1c74393!6m1!1e1

We had easily 250 people roaming the block between armitage and willow. Most of them highschool "youths".

 

[BUTCH1]

You live out in the country, probably huge distances between homes.

I would really like to see videos of this happening en masse anywhere (I really doubt most of our greedy members 1) even handout candy 2) are not really living with their parents still and just bitter).

In 'normal' neighborhoods, you are talking about 100 or so feet between doors, in the townhome communities more living in like 20-30' between every 2-6+ unit buildings.

If you are talking in acreage areas, then it would make sense; but seriously why would parents bring their kids to those when more heavily populated and more than likely more wealthy neighborhoods exist.

The key thing that most of you just paying Devil's Advocate or more than likely just going to troll/argue with me is that if this was really happening in any high level in a neighborhood with 'tons of imported' trick-or-treaters is that there would be massive traffic jams at each house and other back-ups.

It simply is not true. What's happening is you are either lying/exaggerating, it's just the parents dropping kids off in a neighborhood and shuttling them sub-division to sub-division, or that one person that's an idiot.

Thing is Alk there are so few houses around here with there light on I guess the vehicle method is the only way to gather enough candy. No one is certainly coming to my area because rich people live around here.

 

[z1ggy]

I usually turn my lights off, shut my blinds and pretend I'm not home. Last time I checked, buying candy for the little kiddies isn't a requirement.

I actually won't be there this year though, I have an "adult" Halloween party to go to that night. Praying my house doesn't get broken into or TP'ed.

 

[dabuddha]

This guy gets it.

What was once a neighborhood activity is now a mexico run for the border to the houses with lights on game of dumping kids by the busload.

It's not fun anymore. It's not a neighborhood anymore. You don't know anyone anymore. Kid are incredibly rude and poorly mannered. I don't know how else to explain it, but the majority of people here that don't understand probably don't even hand out candy to understand.

It's just sad that it's gotten that way :/ <old man voice> I remember back in my day, me and my friends would walk throughout our neighborhood for miles and miles trick or treating. Some folks would invite us in and give us apple cider and or cupcakes. We'd roam for hours without our parents and it was a blast </old man voice>

Thankfully in my neighborhood, it's still just local kids that come around and they walk the neighborhood. I see a lot of parents will sometimes get a small pull wagon and the smaller kids sit in those whole the parents walk with the older kids. I still walk my kids (fuck the lazy driving nonsense)

 

[MarkXIX]

Many of you are funny, in the sad, miserable kind of way.

I have two youngin's and a teenager. Last year we left the teenager at home to hand out candy and the two little ones took their scooters and went door to door while we walked behind observing.

Also, who gives a fuck if some downtrodden kids come see how the other half lives and bag some candy in the process. Everyone needs to be able to see what's possible in life at some point.

Finally, who gives a shit if someone is driving their kids around. If they have the disposable income to pay for the gas in exchange for a few bucks of candy AND not give a shit that their kids are most likely to grow up fat and lazy, I don't care.

 

[Genx87]

Heh the neighborhood I grew up in has 6 houses. We always bought a lot of candy and even when parents from less fortunate neighborhoods brought their kids. We still had too much candy. I dont know, whatever. If somebody is going to turn it into a social services debate. They should probably just turn off their light and not give out any candy.

I buy a set amount of candy. If enough kids come to take it all. Then I turn off my light. Some times not enough kids come. The ones that show up later get a windfall of candy. One time these adorable brother and sister showed up about 8:30. I had so much candy, I dumped two buckets into their bag. Equivalent of about 3 bags of candy from the store. Their eyes lit up. We made each others night.

 

[Jimzz]

Yea I don't get it either, How dare "them" people bring their kids to OUR neighborhood. Really?

If they are breaking or damaging something call the cops. If not treat them like any other kids. Remember they are kids trying to enjoy a nice night like all others, do you remember what it was like when you were that age? If you don't want to give out candy turn your lights off, its that easy.

For me I will be giving out candy, crackers, oodles and noodles, microwave popcorn, and ketchup sandwiches. I try to add a weird thing my wife or MiL buys but a kid took it one year and I found out I cost $3 a can so wife cut me off last year.

 

[TheFamilyMan]

For being called TheFamilyMan, you are a sad and angry, little man. Nice personal attack on someone's loss of a mother.

Wah wah wah...I stated the obvious...you haven't changed one bit and I, for one, wonder if this wasn't just another cry out for attention with you being the textbook narcissist you are. I forsee you peppering your future posts about your mother the same way you pepper your posts at any given chance to mention your current living arrangements with another man's wife and kids.

By the way...multiple posters in the thread have validated that things play out just as I and many others have described with regards to Halloween and trick-or-treating. You got your panties in a wad because it contradicted what you claim is absolute reality in each and every neighborhood in America. You're not omniscient...no matter how awesome you think you are.

 

[ghost recon88]

You really think most parents are hoping to steal their kids candy?

No, but these parents are teaching their kids to leech off the 1%....welfare and government handouts here we come!

Seriously though, whatever happened to just trick-or-treating in your own neighborhood?

 

[Jimzz]

No, but these parents are teaching their kids to leech off the 1%....welfare and government handouts here we come!

Seriously though, whatever happened to just trick-or-treating in your own neighborhood?

Wow... really?

I see parents drive their kids in our neighborhood that live there but we do not have many sidewalks so they drive them. Of course I am not a bigot/racist let alone my life is not so devoid I have to stare out my window watching kids to track "them". So I give out candy because my light is on and its the right thing to do.

 

[surfsatwerk]

No, but these parents are teaching their kids to leech off the 1%....welfare and government handouts here we come!

Seriously though, whatever happened to just trick-or-treating in your own neighborhood?

They should be boiled in their own pudding amirite!

 

[Anubis]

Did your parents drive you to other part of the town? I have no problem with kids exploring places within their walkable distance

my parents drove us, because the houses were miles apart


when we got a lil older they would drive us to an area that was more populated and lets us walk around

 

[smackababy]

I wonder which set of kids is more likely to be mischievous: ones who live in a neighborhood or ones who know that after tonight, they won't be seen there again?