Is the night before Halloween still a thing for kids to do dumb shit?

[Soapbox Killer]

Back in my day, we would by cartons of eggs on our way to school in preparation for egg fights that went on in that halls and then after school. TPing someones house doesn't work when you live in a rowhouse. I'm not sure if this is even a thing any more and since I moved out of the city I don't know anymore.


We called it Mystery Night.

 

[Fat4all]

let's burn down chicago again

 

[Fat4all]

the devil made me do it

 

[CthulhuSars]

Kids just do dumb shit. I never saw a spike in doing dumb shit as a kid on certain days of the year.

 

[Rhomega]

Was never a thing in my neighborhoods growing up.

 

[Deleted member 14377]

After Halloween and the houses close up for the night. Roam the streets and smash your pumpkins in the middle of the road. Good times.

 

[Wingfan19]

I grew up in the metro Detroit area, where it was called Devils Night. I thought it was just a thing people did everywhere, but apparently not. I never had any problems in my neighborhood with it, but you'd see the stories on the local news talking about some damage around the area.

 

[DrewFu]

Do kids still do Halloween, period, anymore? The streets around here are mostly dead now, where as they used to be like Disneyland, back in the 90's, they were so packed.

 

[DrewFu]

Was never a thing in my neighborhoods growing up.

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Same. Halloween night would be fucking rockin' back in the day, but I never saw anything done the night before.

I can't even remember the last time I saw a house get TP'd. Probably because it's so expensive now. lol

 

[Clay]

I'm 30, grew up in CA, and have never heard of this.

I've seen depictions in movies and TV shows of kids TPing and stuff on Halloween itself if people weren't giving out candy or whatever (never participated myself) but I've never heard of pulling random pranks the night before.

Do kids still do Halloween, period, anymore? The streets around here are mostly dead now, where as they used to be like Disneyland, back in the 90's, they were so packed.

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I'm sure it just depends where you live. The neighborhood I lived in last year went all out on Halloween and it was packed with families trick or treating. I currently live in an apartment complex and I've heard people set up booth in the communal park area to hand out candy.

Anecdotally, it feels like far more people go to "destination neighborhoods" where people go wild with decorations and a majority of homes will be handing out candy rather than sticking to their own neighborhood. When I was a kid we would either walk around near our own home or I'd go to a friend's place and do there's, my family never drove me anywhere just to trick or treat.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Do kids still do Halloween, period, anymore? The streets around here are mostly dead now, where as they used to be like Disneyland, back in the 90's, they were so packed.

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It's sill pretty big where I was in Philly but since I moved and I don't know my neighbors super well, I'm buying candy for my kids and playing Luigi Mansion 3!

 

[Dyle]

The only dumb thing kids are going to do tonight is go out when it's snowing without a coat on

 

[AcidCat]

Hmmm, no if kids were gonna do dumb shit they did it late on Halloween night, never heard of anything going on the night before.

 

[DrewFu]

It's sill pretty big where I was in Philly but since I moved and I don't know my neighbors super well, I'm buying candy for my kids and playing Luigi Mansion 3!

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I mean, they still do it here, but most nights now, the doorbell will ring a few times - whereas back in the 90's people would just sit at the door because the stream if kids was endless. lol

 

[Soapbox Killer]

I mean, they still do it here, but most nights now, the doorbell will ring a few times - whereas back in the 90's people would just sit at the door because the stream if kids was endless. lol

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It is less than that but I guess because there are more Halloween parties and people do it on the last Saturday of the month in a lot of places. There was talk of moving it so kids could get a full day of TOT in. When I was a kid, we would start after school and not come home till like 10pm with enough junk to last till New Years Day!

 

[Beer Monkey]

Cabbage night, motherfuckers.

 

[konka]

 

[Soapbox Killer]

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Well damn it really is a local thing. I did not know that.

 

[HStallion]

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If this map is legit its pretty funny as I grew up in Orange County NY right by Jersey during the 90's and the night before Halloween some shit would go down. Lot of houses TP'ed, egged and so on. My parents car got egged one year and they were flipping shit the next day.

 

[infinitebento]

let's burn down chicago again

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I volunteer as tribute

set me on fire

 

[Sandcrawler]

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Wow growing up in Jersey I didn't know that this wasn't a thing elsewhere. As a kid I feel like I remember seeing it on some cartoons, definitely Rocket Power and maybe another. Since Rocket Power's setting was California (or at least inspired by) I figured it was a thing everywhere. My friend's older brothers partook. The town cops cracked down pretty hard by the time I was "of age" so it kind of died down in my area.

 

[bluehat9]

Mischief Night representing. No, I never did anything, but tp and egging were done when I was a kid. I don't even think there are kids in my neighborhood now, lol.

 

[Birdie]

I just remember a Rocket Power episode about this.

They called it Mischief Night too.

Never experienced it myself. Around homecoming was when folks pranked in my town.

 

[konka]

Wow growing up in Jersey I didn't know that this wasn't a thing elsewhere. As a kid I feel like I remember seeing it on some cartoons, definitely Rocket Power and maybe another. Since Rocket Power's setting was California (or at least inspired by) I figured it was a thing everywhere. My friend's older brothers partook. The town cops cracked down pretty hard by the time I was "of age" so it kind of died down in my area.

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Yeah it extends a bit because we did it in Pennsylvania but talking to people from even western PA they had no idea what I was talking about.

 

[grmltr]

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