Any Halloween horror stories from last night?

[PityParty]

Anything happen last night? I trod on a slug in my socks

In a street adjacent to mine, a large number of cars got egged and floured

I was woken up at about 3 by a man shouting "fuck off" at an owl. Not sure it was Halloween related though!

I wonder what the owl had done to deserve such language vampirethriller

I had a pumpkin carving mishap. For some reason those stencils that people use to make theirs look amazing really throw me. I was trying to do the body of a spider and a chopped it out instead. The six and four year old walked in (they’re not even mine, I’m their nanny) and enquired as to why their pumpkin had a huge hole in it.

Without thinking I said ‘he got shot in the back of the head with a massive bullet’

they’re a bit young for that level of macabre.

In the event they were quite proud of the pumpkin, and told all their little friends about his shooting accident.

Harriet that made me really laugh

I broke a knife pumpkin carving.

and was seriously suffering a chocolate overdose as we didn't have as many at the door as previous years.

Vampire thriller we can often hear owls when we are in bed. My DHwoke me once at about 3am to tell me to "go and tell that twisty headed fucker to t'whit t'fuckin woo right off". Needless to say it wasn't the owl that got the sharp side of my tongue. All quiet last night though, alert from the DC who had overdosed on Haribo

A dog was stolen from a gardener’s van on someone’s drive on our road, By some horrible opportunist bastard. Not Halloween related but still horrible.

I was woken up at about 3 by a man shouting "fuck off" at an owl. Not sure it was Halloween related though! I am still chuckling at this. I have in my mind some poor fella stood at the foot of a tree, in the dark, looking knackered and finally shouting "FUCK OFFFFFF!" before stomping off.

I went out for tea so didn't get home until after 8pm (purposely to avoid trick or treaters). Driving down my road I saw two fully grown men hanging around, one wearing a horrible mask and another holding one.. weirded me out a bit.

About 45 mins later there were two loud knocks on the door, which seemed a bit late for trick or treating to me. I didn't dare look out and we didn't have a pumpkin on display or anything to encourage it. I'm a wimp but I was burgled earlier this year and I think that's properly put me off Halloween. Or maybe I'm just mardy..

We had 250 kids at the door guising last night.

All well behaved, mostly very polite, all telling jokes/singing/reciting poems/dancing. From babies to teenagers.

Great costumes and lots of great decorations around the neighbourhood.

A lovely traditional community event.

Some teenage lads setting off fireworks pointed towards cars driving down the high street.

My ds got chased in a car after he said no to buying drugs when out trick or treating cue the police at our door .

@bellinibobble surely you're from the East Midlands ? I've never heard anyone else use the word 'mardy'!!!

Mardy used in the N.E. too 🙂

I was on the phone to my mum at 9ish last night and her door went. I said "Oh just ignore it" She said "But it might be something important" Then I heard a yell of "Trick or Treat" my Mum shout "Argh! NO!" then shut the door.

Not sure quite what she expected at 9am on Halloween....

@Blobby10 - how dare you, I am from Sheffield. Please refer to the anthemic 'Mardy Bum' - written by our city's patron saint Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys

mardy is used a bit down south as well

We ran out of sweets by 6.40 so I had to make a mad dash for supplies (5 bags of fun size bars and 9 bags of swizzles stuff and 5 bags of mini smartie boxes all gone... in desperation I even bought nets of satsumas and they all went too!). Absolutely loads of kids around last night. T'was lovely, until we went out just after 8 to collect in all the decorations and realized that someone had stolen the leg off one of our skeletons :(.

All rather sweet in our village -- lots of smallies doing the rounds, the occasional father in an ill-advised onesie or mother being a Sexy Witch, and some people had gone to enormous lengths to decorate their houses, especially some where you enter around the back or down the side where they had made pumpkin trails, or dropped net curtain ghosts out the upstairs windows.

My one gripe is that an American neighbour would only hand over the goodies once the children sang an annoying Trick or Treat song she taught them, and now the entire population of under-tens in the village is chanting it.

My son ate a chocolate given to him which contained peanuts and he went into anaphylactic shock.

Cue a dash home for his epipen, and a call to 999 as his mouth started to swell...and a trip to hospital in an ambulance.

He is fine, but had to spend 6 hours under observation in hospital and wasn't discharged until 2am.

Not the best Halloween for him

Grown man with small children knocked on the door at around 8, shouted “open the fucking door”when we declined. When I opened the door and told them I didn’t do trick or treat he called me a cunt.

A shop near me got burgled by a man in a Halloween mask with a knife. Awful stuff.

Marsh is used here in NW too. I encounter many “mard-arses” each day

Trick or treating going great last night. Then it rained. DD became a proper mard-arse since I can’t control the weather and it was messing up her hair

@pityparty Me too! I went out to blow out the candle on my pumpkin and was too lazy to get shoes on and squelch