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Effing teenagers this Halloween

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GoodForTheSoul · 31/10/2021 19:31

We've lived in this house for quite a few years now, do Halloween every time. We do a mixture of opening the door and leaving a bowl in our decorated porch. Most of our neighbours do the same and there's never been any issues. Until this year.

After beig cleared out a couple of times pretty early in, I did some watching from the upstairs windows. And I've noticed gangs of teenagers (easily about 16) go through the street both knocking on doors and emptying any bowls they came across... Then running off and returning a few minutes later, trying to sweep through any refills Angry

There's realy no point to this thread other than me having a rant. As I've said above, this has never been an issue so it made me wander if anyone had a similar experience this year? Are teenagers these days really so bored/badly mannered to spend an evening doing this?

Us and next door took all our sweets in and only opened the door to genuine trick or treaters for the rest of the night. It would be a shame for the little ones to miss out (walking around in this hideous weather too) because others are so selfish.

Rant over Halloween Grin

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Starlightstarbright1 · 31/10/2021 19:34

My teen has gone out. We talked about respect and behaviour before he went out.

Doyoumind · 31/10/2021 19:36

I had this a few years ago. I was opening the door to them but when I had to put DC to bed I put the sweets outside and a couple of teenagers came along and emptied the whole thing. I won't do that again.

PeachesPumpkin · 31/10/2021 19:37

Teenagers are still children and still like sweets.

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HelloDulling · 31/10/2021 19:37

How bloody rude. I don’t think teens should even be trick or treating. It’s for little ones, surely?

Tittie · 31/10/2021 19:38

We've just had some absolutely hammering our door, ringing the doorbell repeatedly and knocking until we answered. We'd taken in the pumpkins, so they didn't have that excuse, and we were trying to put our little kids to bed. We only answered to get them to shut up. What's wrong with them!!

SunShinesBrightly · 31/10/2021 19:38

Not just teens OP. We even stopped offering the whole bowl of sweets when a family (Dad with DC) grabbed a massive handful each and cleared us out in one visit.
I was WTF? He just laughed and said ‘thanks’. Horrible people.
I now hand them out myself.

BonnyEm · 31/10/2021 19:38

Just open the door and give them a packet each then

selflove · 31/10/2021 19:38

I'd filled our bowl with 72 packs of haribo and left it on the doorstep, and took my little ones out for exactly an hour. It was all gone when we came back. We do live in a busy area, but not "72 in an hour" sort of busy. Had a chat with the kids about how greediness like that spoils it for others.

Winterfellismyhome · 31/10/2021 19:39

@Doyoumind thats why I'd never put a bowl out to help themselves. Some people are so selfish

DismantledKing · 31/10/2021 19:39

@PeachesPumpkin

Teenagers are still children and still like sweets.
Doesn’t excuse them being arseholes
picklemewalnuts · 31/10/2021 19:39

It's not new. We stopped doing it years ago- 20 years ago- because of quite alarming behaviour from teens/big young men that scared me and my toddler.

SunShinesBrightly · 31/10/2021 19:40

@PeachesPumpkin

Teenagers are still children and still like sweets.
Yes and some of them still need Mummy and Daddy to chaperone them - make sure they behave.
SpookyS · 31/10/2021 19:41

@PeachesPumpkin

Teenagers are still children and still like sweets.
Hmm
PiesNotGuys · 31/10/2021 19:43

They are being very rude and unfair. Anyone doing that would be being rude and unfair though, wouldn’t matter if they were 10-12 or 14-16. It doesn’t seem fair to have a go at teenagers as a whole because they were being dicks. But I don’t recognise this banning teenagers from trick ir treating, round here if you are dressed up you can trick or treat - regardless of age.

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 31/10/2021 19:44

Wow, it's all terribly polite around here thank goodness. I put out a lucky dip bucket with the sweets mixed up with scrunched up newspaper and lots of kids have assumed the sweets are inside the newspaper so my dc have had to stand out instructing people, which totally defeated the hands off aspect Grin
Definitely no misbehaving teens, and no one taking more than one each.

PrincessPaws · 31/10/2021 19:44

@PeachesPumpkin

Teenagers are still children and still like sweets.
They are also old enough to know better than being inconsiderate to everyone else - i'd be thoroughly ashamed if I knew any that would be shitty enough to do this
BrilloPaddy · 31/10/2021 19:47

I'd be grateful that they're not doing any damage tbh.

One year, we had our cars covered in eggs and flour which we didn't realise until the morning........ it had frozen overnight. That was not a fun morning.

Since having a village FB page, it's died down somewhat as people use their Ring doorbell footage to name and shame........

RightOnTheEdge · 31/10/2021 19:48

There have been loads of complaints about teenagers on our local Facebook page tonight.
Hammering on people's windows and running away, throwing eggs on people's windscreens as they are driving, ripping down the lovely art that the local yarn bombers have just put up around town and now reports of a group of them swearing and arguing with police.

Teaandcakeordeath83 · 31/10/2021 19:51

We've brought our bowl in after it was cleared out earlier .. a group of kids (I assume the earlier visitors) have just tried to come in through the sodding front door. We don't have a hall- it's straight into our living room. Our two eldest 7&5 absolutely shit themselves.

I hate Halloween. Closely followed by bonfire night.

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GoodForTheSoul · 31/10/2021 19:51

I think that's the biggest issue I have with it, they must realise they're ruining the fun for young children/families who looked forward to doing it.

I don't claim to have been an angel as a teen but dressing up and house parties was the thing me and my friends did rather than being a nuisance to others.

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Burnt0utMum · 31/10/2021 19:53

Such a shame that some people have to spoil it. Everyone round here has been lovely. We went out early then answered the door once we were back home. Mostly just kids but also one adult dressed up. Still got plenty of sweets left as people only took one each.

TrickOrTreat21x · 31/10/2021 19:54

YANBU.

Luckily haven't seen any teens where I live but I've seen a lot of complaints on Facebook. They might like sweets - but it's bloody greedy to clear it out and keep coming back.

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GoodForTheSoul · 31/10/2021 19:56

We must have been quite lucky before not to have any issues, reading others experiences! Always a minority ruining it for the majority.

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lemon12 · 31/10/2021 19:58

I think its just a few spoiling it for everyone.
Personally we have had young chikdren and teenagers all very well behaved.
My partner and myself dress up too.
Trick or treaters love it.

20viona · 31/10/2021 19:59

This has happened to my mate too. Fucking joke little shits.