re: Yearly Halloween Is Being Stolen From Today's Children

Yea I don’t get towns planning Halloween. Used to be you expected it Halloween night. If you didn’t want kids bugging you then turn off the outdoor light, that was the universal sign not to go to that door.

Trunk or treat is parents being too lazy to walk around with their kids and using safety as an excuse. Hell if you’re worried about safety, conceal carry while you monitor the kids. My parents used to dress up too when they took us as kids. Halloween was fun. We went to haunted houses. Adults would try to scare us by jumping out from hiding as we walked up to their house. People suck today

I can’t speak for everywhere, but where I am, retired boomers place signs in their yards telling kids don’t bother.

Never done a trunk or treat, do it neighborhood every year.

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Nothing like an ole fashioned goat sacrifice and a few Hershey bars

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Not to mention the requisite check for razor blades prior to eating any candy.

Need to go back to the good old days. Churches are soft with their trunk or treats. Our churches in the 80’s burned records by satanic artists such as AC/DC (against Christ/Devil children) and the Eagles, due to their backmasking tactics.

It happened then too. It’s just that if you lived in Lexington, KY you weren’t likely to hear about such an incident that occurred in Tulsa, OK.

Now, with the prevalence of social media, countless 24 hour news channels, and thousands of “true crime” podcasts, it is very likely you will.

There is a regular poster on here who was molested and kidnapped by his karate teacher in the 80’s, and whose dad killed the teacher in the airport while news cameras rolled. If you weren’t from Baton Rouge or Louisiana, there is a decent chance you didn’t hear about it when it happened

I so agree....

Generally, nicer neighborhoods schedule trick or treating on nights other than Oct. 31 to avoid having outsiders infiltrate their area by the car loads.

Many of these outsiders don’t bother to wear costumes and some are north of 18 years old.

As a parent, I’ll say that Halloween is gaining on Christmas as the holiday that’s the biggest pain in the arse.

I live smack dab in the middle of one of the nations largest cities and i will have nearly a thousand youths descend on my street trick or treating. We get so many that the neighborhood organizes a neighbors only trick or treat the day before Halloween because our kids all have more fun passing out candy to legions of other kids.

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Halloween has turned into a fragmented, watered down version of what is used to be. Instead of everyone trick or treating on Halloween night, parents take their kids to "safe zones" like churches or parking lots or down commercial streets where they can go collect candy while wearing a costume (I don't call that trick or treating). These events trypically aren't even on Halloween. Some towns schedule a night for trick or treating that's not even on Halloween night. Why!?

We are robbing our children of one of the most special times of being a child. There's nothing like trick or treating on Halloween night. Seeing mobs of kids all walking the dark streets at the same time, having nearly all houses in all neighborhoods with their lights on inviting trick or treaters, and being able to look forward to that night every year without having to ask "what night are we allowed to trick or treat this year?"

Halloween should not be a carefully planned, controlled event where old people force kids to engage in Halloween on the old people's terms. Halloween is Halloween and old people should deal with it and give the kids the Halloween they got when they were kids!

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You clearly have never been trick or treating in University Club recently