Mischief night

[stoplickingthetelly]

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.

Never heard of it when I was a kid in N Wales (now in London) but nephew has just been telling me about it as it was mentioned in the local paper up there. Seems to be a northwest England/north Wales thing, but I really don’t remember it when I was a kid in the 80s!

Yeah mischief night is the 30th, seems to be very regionally (Teesside, but Durham / Gateshead folk have no idea what it is)

Traditionally seemed to be worse in the nicer areas.

I was born in Yorkshire where I enjoyed mischief night on 4 November as a youngster but when I lived in Devon for many years they hadn't heard of it. However, what is now happening on 30 October in some cities, isn't mischief, it's simply that the American version of children's' Halloween has morphed into something more sinister where teenagers are performing criminal acts. What we did, was to swap neighbours' garden gates around, putting a spud on a car exhaust to stop it starting or a bit of jam on a house door knob. These are more annoyances than crime and if you'd done it as a child, you should be looking out for it when you become an adult - unless you move up north from the south of course.