Teens or college kids coming to your door for Trick or Treat......

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

...... with no effort to dress up, just standing there in jeans and a T-shirt :dunno ..... and then shake their bag at you and yell More! ... MORRRE ! 1 !! :mad: ....... after you had thrown in a few fun size Snickers bars appreciation thread. :YinYang

[Gas-man]

That's why I always keep a couple of razor-bladed apples handy.

[pickaguitar]

I'm seriously doubting college kids without costumes are coming to anybody's door for candy

[rattles]

If they do, they won't get anything from this house!

[stratman34]

Call me Mr. Grouch.... We turn off the porch light and usually visit friends or relatives at their house that night. I just never liked the hassle of Trick or Treating, even as a kid doing it.

Dad owned a convenience store back then, so candy didn't really hold much awe and wonder for me like it did for some kids.

[michael.e]

I would whap them with a slab-0-red meat and let me dog chase them down the street..
:huh
Wait, I don't have a dog..


I would let my cats chase them down the street....:BITCH

[Telecaster62]

I've had it happen several times. No lie, one time we had a pregnant girl, I swear to God. My wife and I give them hell about it but usually do give them some candy.

[Blue Fin]

Don't come to my door if you're over 12 years old no matter what you're wearing.

[scottlr]

Fried chicken embryos and beer :D

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/universal/SNLSeason2/coneheads_B.jpg

[MichaelThomas]

Open the door wearing nothing but a bath robe with nothing under and a shotgun. Then we'll see who really gets the trick..

[therhodeo]

Happened alot to my parents back home.

[nmiller]

"But I'm dressed up as a grad student with a creepy mustache!" I figure my everyday appearance is enough to frighten small children anyway.
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~namiller/instruments/Index.jpg

[telemike]

Actually happens quite often around here. I ask them what their costume is. If they can come back with an imaginative answer then I give them something. If they can't, then I turn them away saying that the candy is for the kids in costume only. It used to bug me but I've seen it so often that I just try and have fun with it.

[PosterBoy]

This time of year I always answer the door naked, i get less trick or treaters each year!

[jaycee]

My friend's son is 17 and going out mooching with a couple of his friends. I kinda can't believe it but it's true.

[Jahn]

here in NYC we get that all the time. kids showing up wearing a hoodie and saying "yo i'm the unabomber." or just like a slob and saying "i'm a homeless guy." UGH. but the ones i dislike the most are the parents who come dressed up as well as the kids (which is fine) but then take candy too, since they're in costume (NOT fine). c'mon, leave some candy for the unabomber homeless bum kids in college!

[Luke]

The best policy seems to be to give candy until dark, after which the little kids are home in bed, and then hang a sign saying "sorry ran out of candy". The older kids come later in my experience. On that note, I'm not giving anything out this year, I used that money to fix my mailbox after the punks destroyed them in our neighborhood this summer.

[jaycee]

Either that policy or the 'if you're old enough to shave, you're old enough to buy your own candy' policy.

[stratzrus]

Too old for candy, not old enough for beer...I guess you're out of luck.

[dksouthpaw]

dude i'm a college student and i go out and get candy. I DRESS up though, if they're such slacker college students that they don't even dress up and enjoy the spirit of halloween, then they shouldn't get anything.

But if they dress up and compliment your haunting decor tastes. Give snickers not razor blades :D

[prsflame]

This is why I keep the lights out, and stopped answering the door on Halloween. I had an experience with a group of older kids 3 years ago that made me uncomfortable. I decided that It was time to end the tradition, for my own safety.

[Dr. Tweedbucket]

I'm seriously doubting college kids without costumes are coming to anybody's door for candy



We'll say college age, and they do in Plano. :YinYang

[Lawn Jockey]

This is precisely why Casa Lawn Jockey is fully fenced......and locked.

GET OFF MY LAWN

:mob

[voojo]

You guys both have Hiwatts lying about and you are worried? I would set up the amp in doorway, and depending on the apparent age & costume, they either get candy, or windmilled power chords!

Should get them thinking!

:band

:mob "Run, RUN!"


...... with no effort to dress up, just standing there in jeans and a T-shirt :dunno ..... and then shake their bag at you and yell More! ... MORRRE ! 1 !! :mad: ....... after you had thrown in a few fun size Snickers bars appreciation thread. :YinYang

I would whap them with a slab-0-red meat and let me dog chase them down the street..
:huh
Wait, I don't have a dog..


I would let my cats chase them down the street....:BITCH

[semore butts]

Hey it's great to see your lazy asses at least getting a little excersise!:)

Hey if get a job you can have candy all year round, and still live at your mom and dads!:bong

Yes! It is a real 40 Cal Barreta! Do you think you can out run it?:worried

And my favorite related issue!

The Brinks commercial where the guy breaks in and then runs off!

The Brinks guy calls and ask, should I send the police?

My wifes answer is, "No"! "We shot him"! Send and ambulance!:p

[Texas_Blues]

How else are us college kids supposed to get food for the year :dunno?

[RichieRich]

Id be inviting every cute and legal looking girl in for a "soda"

[Neill]

"But I'm dressed up as a grad student with a creepy mustache!" I figure my everyday appearance is enough to frighten small children anyway.
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~namiller/instruments/Index.jpg

i think that dude goes to my school. kashi eating, wool sock having weirdo.

[donkers]

don't hate, they're just hungry.

[Cobra]

dude i'm a college student and i go out and get candy. I DRESS up though, if they're such slacker college students that they don't even dress up and enjoy the spirit of halloween, then they shouldn't get anything. But if they dress up and compliment your haunting decor tastes. Give snickers not razor blades :D

Exactly the reason for the OP's post!! And don't call us "dude"
It's just so friggen overused & lame... :barf
Do you sound like a sheep when you say it too?
Sound effects for your costume this year?

[SGNick]

I'm seriously doubting college kids without costumes are coming to anybody's door for candy

You're wrong though! The last time I went trick or treating was in my first year of university, although we wore extensive costumes, we were The Ace of Spades and the Ace of Hearts.... how I loved those costumes...

Before that, costumes varried greatly in effort.

[Frankee]

You guys both have Hiwatts lying about and you are worried? I would set up the amp in doorway, and depending on the apparent age & costume, they either get candy, or windmilled power chords!

Should get them thinking!

:band

:mob "Run, RUN!"

This gives me an idea for tomorrow night......... 120 watts of shityerpants scary dooooom........courtesy of the old Matamp!

[aeolian]

This was posted on another sound forum. How to have fun with the neighborhood kids:

A fog chiller like this will work almost as well as a professional one. The professional fog coolers essentially blow the fog through an refrigerator evaporator.

Halloween of 1994, I had the police at my house 6 times, each time with them begging me to stop doing what I was doing... he so badly wanted a reason to arrest me, but could think of none.

Picture it: The doorbell was connected through an optocoupler to my computer's keyboard. Everytime the doorbell rang, there was a pause (as the stereo audio file loaded) then a loud scream played from a speaker (left) hidden in the trunk of one of the cars in the driveway. The right channel had a nasty kind of chewing sound, and it was played through a speaker hidden in the engine compartment of another car which was parked close to the door.

My roommate and I were car nuts, and we had a junked Toyota that we were waiting for the scrapyard to haul off. With the chain hoist, we put it on its side in the front yard, with a mannequin's arm sticking out from underneath. We hooked its electrical system up to a car battery charger and left some of the parking lights on, with a turnblinker flashing and the AM radio playing quietly inside.

I was working in the professional sound and lighting business then, so I borrowed a fog machine, fog chiller and 6,000 watts of Leko stagelighting.

The fog machine and the chiller from work went outside to provide a ground mist, but not too much. I needed for the kids to see, by the light of the flashing signal, the arm sticking out from under the Toyota.

The Lekos and my own fog machine were set up inside. The Leko dimmer pack was powered off the 40 amp 240V service to the stove outlet, and all 6 lights, at 1000W apiece, were pointed and focused to a point 1 foot outside of my front door.

And then there was the chainsaw. Beg, borrow, steal or rent a chainsaw. Take off the chain and protect the kids from the potentially sharp edge of the chain guide with a rubber edging like people use around the outlines of their car doors.

The Spectacle:

Mom or Dad would stand at the end of the driveway as Little Tommy would walk past the Toyota with the flashing lights and the arm poking out of the ground mist.

Little Tommy, dressed in his finest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles costume would press the doorbell. He'd hear the ring of the bell, then a couple of seconds later, the scream from the trunk of one of the cars he'd just passed. Gradually, he'd become aware of a wet chewing sound right behind him.

If Little Tommy was still standing at the door by the time I got downstairs, he'd be greeted to the sound of the door opening, and a wall of fog in front of him; invisible foggy blackness.

Of course, wearing black and a black ski mask, I'd be standing there watching the look of fear on the kid's face as it flashed on and off in time with the doomed Toyota's right turn. And then, just when we thought Tommy was getting ready to leave, Mike would kick the foot-pedal that turned on all 6kW of stagelights, focused right at the kid's face.

Blinded and disoriented, Little Tommy would start to retreat as I started up the chainsaw. And his first sight of me would be the silhouette, through the fog, of a black shadow with a running gas chainsaw.

Frozen, the kid would stand there, a deer caught in the headlights, as the chainsaw-wielding black shadow pressed the blade of the saw to his neck and revved the motor.

Of course at this point, the parent, standing at the end of the driveway, would feel that Little Tommy was in mortal danger, scream, drop the bag of candy, and attempt to rescue him from the chainsaw which would have already taken off the kid's head if it still had a chain.

The next morning, I had 4 broken windows, hate messages spray-painted onto the side of my roommate's car, the smell of two-cycle oil in my living room, and a hell of a lot of toilet paper and broken eggs to clean up. But I only had to give out 1/2 bag of candies, so I think I did okay.

[StratManKudzu]

the above ^^^ is absolutely brilliant. :bow:bow:bow They should have filmed it.

[tms13pin]

I went trick or treating in college. We got a couple folks who gave us
a hard time, but most people were happy that *someone* was showing
up. We wore costumes, we didn't go lame-o on it. It was fun and we
scored big in the candy dept. because not many kids t-or-t in those
neighborhoods anymore. Later on in grad school, I lived in that
neighborhood and we hardly had anyone come by our place. The few
kids who did scored big because we loaded them up.

The assholes out there who prey on kids have made a mess of Halloween.
People are afraid of letting their kids go out for very long or stray too far
from home for fear of nutbars trying to take advantage of them or doing
something to candy, etc. We never worried about this stuff as kids. It
truely sucks.

BTW, I started college in 1981. My college was show #4 for the
newly re-formed King Crimson and Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Tony
Levin, and Bill Bruford were on my campus on Halloween night in '81.
We had a wonderful night of trick-or-treating, loaded up on candy,
loaded up on other things, and got to experience the Discipline tour
in its infancy that night. Best Halloween of my life!

--Tom

[nsureit]

Aw, hell, let 'em do it, as long as they're out havin' fun and not causing trouble.

[sovtekking]

I'm going out trick or treat-ing for other college girls!!!

[Echo Are]

Don't come to my door if you're over 12 years old no matter what you're wearing.

When I was 12 was the last year I went trick-or-treating, actually. I wasn't even planning on going, but a friend across the street came over that night and insisted, kept bugging me that we should go. We didn't have any costumes, so we just put on old flannel shirts and told everybody who asked that we were The Dukes of Hazzard:rotflmao.

[phishmarisol]

Come on guys, stop being so uptight. It's one night a year. There shouldn't be an age limit on trick or treating. However, if they haven't dressed in a costume you should make them earn their candy by singing the trick or treat song or some such nonsense.

[triple_vee]

as long as the college girls are dressed as sluts...awesome! unfortunately, i'm doing an all night gig that night. :(

[tms13pin]

I haven't had time the last couple years (and I'm down to one dog)
but I used to have some fun on H-ween. My dogs go bonkers when the
doorbell rings, so I have to either put a gate up to keep them in the
laundry room or put them in the basement. For a couple years I was
hanging a PZM mic in the stairwell in my basement at the top of the
stairs, where the dogs would hang out after we shut them in there
during the trick or treating. They'd go crazy as soon as they heard the
doorbell. Said mic was fed into a bunch of f/x processors (pitch
shifters and echos, primarily), amplified, and played through speakers
under the front porch. It sounded like the Cerberus army at my front
porch... a melee of dogs of all pitches, scary as hell. Great fun.

--Tom

[Prodigy]

When they say "Trick OR Treat", say "Trick" and slam the door in their face.

[cram]

it's extortion really:
they may/may not be dressed up, but they clearly know where you live and clearly want candy.
If you refuse, you can wake up with egg or TP all over the lawn.

[CarlosJesena]

Someone offered me a shot of Absolut last night when I went around as MYSELF! :D :D :D :D

[pir8matt]

I just give em some xanax or hydrocodone. Thats what they really want anyway.

[RichieRich]

Exactly the reason for the OP's post!! And don't call us "dude"
It's just so friggen overused & lame... :barf
Do you sound like a sheep when you say it too?
Sound effects for your costume this year?

Alright there, whippersnapper.

:NUTS

[Chiba]

Lights off, nobody home.

I'm glad my kid enjoys it, I would never prevent her from having fun, but it's not my idea of a good time.

--chiba

[JMintzer]

Doesn't anyone watch 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'? They had an episode about this. Two HS age girls showed up w/o costumes. Larry David refused to give them candy, since "they weren't wearing a costume"

It did not end well...:p


Jamie

[Texas_Blues]

Exactly the reason for the OP's post!! And don't call us "dude"
It's just so friggen overused & lame... :barf
Do you sound like a sheep when you say it too?
Sound effects for your costume this year?
Cedric??!?!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHIl2h67UIw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyT82Ke04ZM)

[kanderson]

"But I'm dressed up as a grad student with a creepy mustache!" I figure my everyday appearance is enough to frighten small children anyway.
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~namiller/instruments/Index.jpg

Looks like you dressed up as Jon Silberman. :rotflmao
http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1600/682310/3240939/13191443.jpg

[dzo]

We have a bowl with left overs from the previous year and other candy collected that we don't like. We use that bowl for people who are begging rather than trick or treating.

[Dog Boy]

I can believe no one has said how this represents the moral decline of America yet.

I miss Old Drool.

[SGNick]

I can believe no one has said how this represents the moral decline of America yet.

I miss Old Drool.

Kids who want candy is a moral decline in America???

[stevieboy]

When they say "Trick OR Treat", say "Trick" and slam the door in their face.

I don't know how things are today, but when I was a kid that would have definitely qualified you for a trick.

[Texas_Blues]

I don't know how things are today, but when I was a kid that would have definitely qualified you for a trick.
A hooker??? awesome....

[A.Pulverizer]

That's why I always keep a couple of razor-bladed apples handy.

Go out and get yourself some of that tainted Chinese Chocolate laced with melamin. They get sick and the Chinese get the blame. :banana

[kwaves99]

Here's Larry David's take:

http://www.comedy.com/embed/curb-your-enthusiasm-larry-david-s-bald-asshole-costume

[John Hurtt]

This was posted on another sound forum. How to have fun with the neighborhood kids:


The police weren't very resourceful if this wasn't shut down.

[John Hurtt]

Exactly the reason for the OP's post!! And don't call us "dude"
It's just so friggen overused & lame... :barf
Do you sound like a sheep when you say it too?
Sound effects for your costume this year?

I'm getting tired of everybody calling me "bro"....

[Ray Gianelli]

I used to sit out with a bowl of candy and the family Rottweiler, and a sign on the fence that said:

No Costume
No Candy
No Kidding