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Geek Culture / Trick or treat mofo!!!

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Fallout
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 18:33 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 18:34
Ok, so I'm ready to rock now. I'm not going to any halloween parties this year, and I'm home alone. This means it's up to me to defend the house from trick or treaters. So I have my shoes on ready and a a 9 Iron by the front door. No, I'm not joking. Although I clearly would never smack a kid with a golf club, I'm definitely not gonna stand for my car being floured and egged again. Last time it actually damaged the paintwork. So when the door bell goes I won't answer it and I'll be peeking out from behind the curtains. If it looks like they're lining up for a trick, I'll be out the door so fast with a club, they'll be filling their pants and hopefully dropping their loot on my front door step.

Luckily round here most trick or treaters are actually kids, although where I lived in bournemouth, trick or treaters were normally about 15 or 16, and wanted cigarettes, beer or money. I think halloween is pretty cool, and I like the monster masks and outfits and, if you're having a party, decking your house out with all the essential, and of course playing the ghost busters theme tune all night ... ok maybe not that. And kiddies going trick or treating, eh, that's not too bad, but if they actually pull of a trick, I think they deserve to know what a real scare is all about. How about you guys?


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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 18:42 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 18:44
Quote: "I'm definitely not gonna stand for my car being floured and egged again. Last time it actually damaged the paintwork."


Here, I just found this todayhttp://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/halloween-car-cleanup-guide/20061025164309990002

Halloween certainly is a fun time(though I never really got into dressing up in costumes for parties)

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 18:50
Well have fun Fallout, try not to hurt anyone.. LOL!



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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 18:57
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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 18:59 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 19:01
That confirms my suspicions then. I wasn't sure if the eggs had actually done the damage, but clearly they did. In a strange twist though, a few weeks later I got side swiped on the motorway by some lunatic frenchman (Benjamin! I told you about sending your minions over to kill me off ). Aside from almost crashing at 80mph, I had my rear wheel arch caved in. The other blokes insurance sorted it out, and that involved replacing all the panels that were egged aswell. So now my car is shiney again, I will protect it with my life ...... and just as I typed that the door bell rang. 3 kids only ... left without trick nor treat ... lucky escape for them.

And no. Nobody will get hurt. Even if they egg the car before I get outside, I would feel guilty if I unleashed a Tiger Woods on a 12 year old. But THEY don't know that.


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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:05
fill a spray bottle with that hair remover stuff ladies use on their legs (Nair or whatever). if they dog your car, dog their heads. what are they going to do, call a cop? I guess its better than teeing off on their skulls with a 9 iron.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:16
Mate, that actually sounds a bit like GBH. . I'd never actually nail a kid with a golf club, just to totally clear that up! Kids here are mainly good. I'm just paranoid about my car sinse I've suffered a lot of abuse from car crime in recent years (stereos, keying, broken wing mirror etc). Where I'm living now, it's not much of a problem, and kids aren't hard and they're not really trouble makers. BUT ... nothing wrong with playing it safe.


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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:21
You mean your not supposed to harm them?

I just popped some laxative pills in the jellys I gave the Trick'n'Treat people....wrong move?

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:39
Doh, I hate Halloween.

Halloween's fun if you're a kid, but lately around my neighbourhood things get out of hand. People starting fires on the skytrain, etc.

I'm going to the Canucks vs. Preds tonight, however, and it will be interesting seeing how people are dressed

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:44
I'm allergic to corn syrup and cane sugar...

Meh, life goes on...

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 19:50
i have a bag of chocolates just in-case anybody comes, but in our neighborhood not many usually do... last year we only had one person, and it was a mom getting candy for her "sick kid who had to stay at home"... (who knows if it was legit )

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 20:47
I hate the trick or treaters too, but I still have to pay my dues as I was the exact same annoying little bitchy trick or treater when I was a kid, being an ass and asking for candy.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 20:52
Would it be that illegal to throw petrol over the little blighters?

Quote: "But I still have to pay my dues as I was the exact same annoying little bitchy trick or treater when I was a kid, being an ass and asking for candy."

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 21:45
We always put up a sign saying "No Trick-or-treaters" or something like that. Hah, Halloween is a stupid holiday.

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 21:47
Thinking about it, trick or treating is just a law suit waiting to happen; I mean, what happens if someone gets food poisoning from your 'treats'? I can see trick or treating becoming another thing that 'disappears' from society soon, just out of fear from being sued...

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or killed...

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Candy is the only reason anyone likes Halloween. Personally, I'm looking forward to making a scary movie and possibly scarring the poo out of some kids. All in a nights work

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 22:11 Edited at: 31st Oct 2006 22:12
I am looking forward to cutting some children with my "prop" katana.

"All those who pass under the blade unsevered get candy. Line up!!"

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 22:53
Lucky for us we got a security camera hooked up about a month ago. I plan on watching for an tricksters who might try something on the live feed. My air-soft gun is loaded and ready, too .

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 23:04
Good grief - what a bunch of cynics and dour faced scrooges. I used to have Halloween parties at my house when I was little, and I'd dress up and go trick or treating - and I'd do a party piece (usually sing a song or play the violin) and then I'd get a few sweets, possibly some fruit and the inevitible monkey nuts.

Parties involved lots of freaky looking food (coloured lemonade, jelly with sweetie-worms or bugs in, sausages made to look like fingers, etc) and people telling stories in the dark with candles on.

My mum would always keep a collection of the same for when kids came to the door, and would ask what their party piece was. That may have been 'back in the old days' of just over a decade ago, but still - you're telling me you didn't like dressing up like a pirate, zombie or spaceman once a year? What a miserable time you must have had.

I'm not singling anyone out specifically, mind you - just the general vibe of "Goddarn get of my lawn!!" on this thread. *sighs*

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 23:06
Well I live in a condo so I don't have to worry about my front lawn being toilet papered or my car getting egged

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Posted: 31st Oct 2006 23:53
Woot! Time to get out the tp and eggs hurray!

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Posted: 1st Nov 2006 00:39 Edited at: 1st Nov 2006 00:40
Don't gemme wrong tinks. I think Halloween is pretty cool, just not the trick side of trick or treating. I've been to my fair share of halloween parties. I'll see if I can dig out a halloween photo or two ...

Ok, top is my legendary old man sensei costume. Mad respect! Complete with bambo ninja combat deadly assault cane of death and spinning whirl kung fu ninja style murder death kill. Then there is mike the werewolf being decapitated by mike the big hulky top-hatted gargoyle troll thing. And finally jake the sparkly eye poltergeist smokey faced ninja monkey boy man.



Edit: Btw, I got away unscaved from the trick or treaters. Going out now to make sure I'm egg free, otherwise I'll wash it off tonight before it does any damage.


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My doorbell didn't ring once. Maybe my "ideas" from work made their way back before I got in...

* Deter them with the Power Washer
* Punch them in the throat
* Invite them in...

I'm telling you, that 3rd one would spread the message not to ring my doorbell. I'd probably get a knock on the door from the police the next day though.

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i just got two so far... gave them some hershey bars...

they didn't even have costumes on... that's the sad part... kids these days just think "hey, let's take a wal-mart bag around and get candy!"

(true that's the real heart of the practice, but at least disguise it some! )

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Posted: 1st Nov 2006 01:28
I got one group. Two little girls, about Calvins age. Took me while to find the goods though, as Trick or treater haven't come by my house in a while.

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I went out with my little siblings. Told the people that "I was angent Smith with HIPP, The Holloween Injury Prevention Progam. I'm sampling the candy given out by area residents to ensure Child Saftey. Your cooperation is appreciated"

That got some laughs.

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heeeey. Had a nice party!

Great halloween party, got to scare some kiddies off from the house we were at.

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Did not see one kid/costume on halloween in australia.

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Went to the hockey game, and there were lots of fans who were dressed up! Some hot women, roid monkey wrestlers, hamburglars, and even one or two Borats. It was fun (even though the Canucks lost)

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we got lots of kids where I live, I just sat on a bench in front of my house and watched as parents explained to the kids that I was "just decoration." Ended up with a lot of frightened kids and even some scared parents

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my friend and his friend were hiding in a bush watching the trick-or-treaters come by and they put out a bowl of candy that said "take 1 please" and 2 kids come up, and heres how it goes:

kid1: *takes 1 candy*
kid2: dude, theres no one here, take more
kid1: but it says take one...
kid2: so? *take handful*
friend: *jumps out of the bush with a high-power hose, hoses down the kid, while friend2 takes kid1's candy*
kid1 and 2: *run away screeming*

when he told me this, i was laughing really hard. he got a lot of candy from that kid too, lol


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Personally, I think the concept of treak or treating is disgraceful. Parents actually teach their children that it is acceptable to go out on the streets and beg!

Call it what you want but there is no mistaking the fact that knocking on someones door and asking for them to give you something with no return for themselves IS begging!

Thats the treat part of it. As for the trick ...
Parents are teaching their children that if they dress in some disguise so that no-one recognises them, then it is acceptable to commit crime and you will get away with it.

So, to summerise ... disguise yourself and it is OK to hit the streets begging and committing crimes ... is that really a good tradition?

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Posted: 2nd Nov 2006 17:13 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2006 17:15
Quote: "even one or two Borats."

That is so gonna be my next character when a Fancy Dress party comes along...

Quote: "Personally, I think the concept of treak or treating is disgraceful. "

Ahh - not just me then? And I'm not even a parent. I suppose you could argue a very tenuous "something for nothing" conditioning of children's minds. I'm gonna go trick or treating round the council estates next year and say something like "cmon, you get a house, what do I get?"

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I had no fun this halloween, I went to youth group...

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