...just goes to show...

...don't annoy other Folks with your "Trick or Treat" antics!...

...it can only end in tears!.. ... ... ...!

F.... ...!

This isn't the first time that has happend. People seem to get shot every year on Halloween.

Fortunately they don't bother coming around here. The American tradition of trick or treating was completely unknown in this country before the 1980s. I always blamed its introduction on the film ET. When my daughter was young (in the 1970s) we had Hallowe'en parties at home with a few invited friends & their children. It seems to me that what seemed such a quaint & innocent tradition has now got completely out of hand on both sides of the Pond.

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At the opposite end, I hate Halloween. I leave the outside light off, draw the curtain across the door, leave to dog by it and ignore the door bell.

Matt

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....don't come knocking on my door, next Halloween!... ... ... ...!

I had a couple of the most offensive little Toe-Rags dressed in their every-day "clothes?", wearing their back-to-front Baseball caps, banging on the front door, and demanding sweets and money...or else!... ...!

Preserve us from them!... ...!

F.... ...!

Mushroom_Farmer wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2008 at 5:56am:

Paul must have forgotten to electrify his front gate & mine the path to his front door this year.

I've heard that these hooligans are not interested in sweets. They want cash. The "or else" threat is what worries me. Some of these young thugs wouldn't hesitate to chuck a brick through your window or perhaps worse, stuff fireworks through your letter box. Although it's now illegal for under-18s to purchase or even carry fireworks in the street they're easy enough to obtain at this time of year. I enjoy a good firework display as much as anyone else but think that fireworks should be completely banned except for at organised displays.

I feel sorry for the family that have lost a son just because some complete & utter tool decides to shoot rounds through a door before even looking to see who was there.

You really do have to have the IQ of an Amoeba not to realise that:

A) It's halloween, people may knock on your door.

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B) It could've been anybody stood there, much more likely to be your own friends or family rather than the world's politest burglars.

I appreciate that in America you have 'the right to bear arms', but do you not have some sort of basic IQ test that has to be passed before being allowed guns?

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