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Mischief night

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stoplickingthetelly · 31/10/2019 17:12

How did everyone fair last night. It was terrible by me, worst it’s ever been I think. Gangs of 20 plus youths roaming the streets causing mayhem. They pushed a car completely over, smashed windscreens, caused loads of damage in a local supermarket etc. They pulled the wing mirror completely off my car. This is all apparently in a naice area too! Hope it’s better tonight.

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stoplickingthetelly · 31/10/2019 20:31

@WhiskersPete I totally agree. The police seemed to be trying. We had police vans and mounted police, but it’s just not enough. More really does need to be done. My husband was telling me about the damage caused to the assisted living place in Liverpool (also mentioned by a previous poster) and the cost of the damage and is huge. It’s just heartbreaking.

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Nonnymum · 31/10/2019 20:31

I haven't heard any one talk about mischief night for years. When I was a child it was on 4 November and people used to let fireworks of early, knock on peoples doors etc but I didn't know it still existed anywhere.

bobstersmum · 31/10/2019 20:32

Every night is mischief night in our house.

freddiethegreat · 31/10/2019 20:33

I grew up in a Mischief Night area, but no-one mentions it down here (Zummerzet). Thank the Lord! DS is just the type to get himself into very hot water with mindless ‘mischief’.

ActualHornist · 31/10/2019 20:33

We were fine in our bit of Liverpool but yes I heard it was awful. Husband read me a bit of the Echo earlier - firefighters attacked! Despicable arseholes.

I’d never even heard of it before I moved up here, it’s an awful ‘tradition’.

areyouafraidofthedark · 31/10/2019 20:34

Night before bonfire night is mischief night where I live.

allthegoodusernameshavegone · 31/10/2019 20:35

I’m way down south and this is the first I’ve heard of mischief night.

MotherHeggy · 31/10/2019 20:36

Never heard of it here in Somerset

Allmyfavouritepeople · 31/10/2019 20:38

I'm in the North West and never heard of it, thankfully!

BingoLittlesUncle · 31/10/2019 20:43

Not a thing here in Berkshire.

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stoplickingthetelly · 31/10/2019 20:45

It seems to be particularly prevalent in Liverpool and seems to be spreading outwards. Really hope it doesn’t start reaching other parts of the north-west and elsewhere.

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Gottagetout · 31/10/2019 20:47

Teessider here and it was last night. Nothing in my village but plenty on FB local pages about bigger towns near by.
Wouldn't be surprised if it happened again on 4th November, seems to be some confusion over the 'actual' night from chatting to people about it (though in itself that sounds ridiculous as it's basically a night to cause havoc and as so many are at it, less chance of the police actually catching anyone) and so it seems to be developing on both nights. Just for good measure!
Some residents affected were calling the police but they were told they were too busy to attend 🤷 no doubt they were but the perpetrators are just going to get away with it, and do it all the more.

MsAwesomeDragon · 31/10/2019 20:50

I'm in Cumbria and it doesn't seem to have reached us. I'm very glad it hasn't. I find Halloween to be bad enough with some of the teens who trick or treat and egg cars if people don't answer the door quick enough or give good enough sweets (mine got egged tonight because I went to the bathroom and missed the door).

PonderLand · 31/10/2019 20:51

Another one from Leeds and I've only ever known it be on the 4th November. We used to buy eggs, flour and shaving foam. It also used to happen during the towns Christmas light switch on but they quickly stopped allowing teenagers to get any of it from local shops.

Judging by tonight I have a feeling teenagers will be using fireworks for it instead, god knows how they manage to get them when we couldn't even get a tray of eggs.

HipHipHippo · 31/10/2019 20:54

This is my first year in North York's. Woke up this morning to a wing mirror pulled right back which has messed up the mechanics that pull them in and out at the switch of a button Angry perhaps this is why.
Originally from down south and had never heard of it before!

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stoplickingthetelly · 31/10/2019 20:55

@Gottagetout it sounds terrible and pretty similar to where I am. Really hoping it doesn’t start up again on 4th. It’s so sad.

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stoplickingthetelly · 31/10/2019 20:57

@HipHipHippo oh no, sorry to hear about your car. Hopefully it’s not the start of mischief night by you.

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singswithitsfingers · 31/10/2019 22:59

I live in London but am from Wirral and have never heard of this.

LemonPrism · 31/10/2019 23:05

Never had this in either Leeds (home town) or London (current area)

HelenaDove · 31/10/2019 23:06

This was in my Twitter feed earlier. Fucking arseholes.

One of the places they targeted was a site thats going to be adapted flats for disabled people.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/bus-services-suspended-after-huge-17177707

BIWitch · 01/11/2019 01:02

It used to be something that we all did as kids - we'd go out and do things like knock on people's doors/ring their doorbells and run away, or tie their gate posts together - really innocent stuff. But it does seem to have really got out of hand Sad

BarbaraofSeville · 01/11/2019 07:09

It was always on 4th November where I am but it seems less of a thing in recent years.

Worst thing about last night is that a house in the village has halloween decorations so spectacular, they had a big 'switch on' that the hordes turned up to watch, leaving badly parked cars here, there and everywhere and were on the local news.

Wibbz · 01/11/2019 20:14

Hubbie is from Essex and he says they had Mischief Night when he was a kid and its also a big thing in the states on 30th Oct. Seems 'mizzy night' has got worse over the years with reports of kids with baseball bats in St Helens, whacking wing mirrors off cars and smashing windscreens. Awful!

Southwest12 · 01/11/2019 20:36

I’d never heard of it until I moved to Liverpool. We had a dispersal zone in place in Waterloo and Crosby, I think that helped.

YolandiFuckinVisser · 01/11/2019 20:40

I grew up in Leeds, it was on 4th November. I live in Wiltshire now, they've never heard of mischief night round here.