trick or treat?

Trick or treat?

Bit of both here. We had 143 kids come to the door looking for candy.
We ran out of treats by 20:00 and turned out the lights.
From that point the teenage hooligans came out and I spent the next 5 hours in the pouring rain with my neighbours, chasing off the yobbos with the firecrackers
and roman candles.before they caught anything on fire. It was quite exciting actually. At one point we had 4 police cars rallying around the
neighbourhood :woowoo: and a police helicopter overhead :vulture: with it's floodlight going and teens in hoodies being flushed out from under bushes running like hell.
In the end nobody got hurt, very little damage was done and everybody had an exciting evening!

Good grief! That sounds like a total nightmare! :omg: Thankfully, this transatlantic nightmare hasn't arrived in sleepy rural Cumbria.

I had a total of no children coming to the door and had no sweets to give out anyway, although I would have been willing to set the dogs on them, in a friendly manner, spirit of the occasion etc. of course.

'Eeh, when I were a lad, yer ad to carve a lantern out of a turnip (swede to you southerners), none o' this easy peasy pumpkin stuff. Try carving out a turnip and see if you can make a hole big enough to put a candle in and still keep all yer fingers!' :dry:

Wanders off mumbling...kids o'today....mumble... damn good kick up the erse......mumble...mumble :rant: .

I remember carving out turnips for a lantern Dave, loved the smell of it when it got cooking with the heat of the candle. If we couldn't afford a turnip we'd use sugar beets as living not far from a beet factory we could pick them up at the roadside if a tractor and trailer was a bit overloaded and had a spillage. Happy days.

Sounds like Rich lives in the rough part of town. We had less than 20 kids come to the door but treats for a small army. Candy anyone?

The sureway to get rid of trick or treaters is to get a bluetooth speaker place it in your garden and play this cd loud............works well.


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