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WIBU to strangle the little bastards who have egged my front door and doorstep?

65 replies

WaxyBean · 01/11/2015 08:06

We don't do Halloween and never have. We don't take the kids trick or treating, we don't put a pumpkin out and we disconnect the doorbell on Halloween evening (so no idea how many visitors we had last night).

Was gobsmacked this morning to find that my front door (stealth boast - bespoke, handmade with stained glass) and doorstep were covered in egg. I've just spent 30 mins cleaning it all off - and to top it all off DS has an egg allergy so I've had to be very careful about not treading or dripping it back into the house.

I doubt I'll ever find out who it was - probably not from DS' school as live too far away so probably kids we don't know. But if I ever do find out - WIBU to strangle them?

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Sirzy · 01/11/2015 08:09

this is where the few spoil Halloween for those who want to enjoy it.

I haven't looked out of my front door yet but like you we hid away from Halloween last night. Hopefully out front door hasn't fallen to the same fate.

My nan hated Halloween, she refused to open her door at night - very sensibly so- and one year some idiots threw egg at her windows and followed it with flour.

Yanbu.

JeffsanArsehole · 01/11/2015 08:09

That's pretty shocking considering the cost of eggs.

Is your house unusual in the street ? I mean do most of the houses do Halloween and you're the only one who doesn't?

Flowers
EmpressKnowsWhereHerTowelIs · 01/11/2015 08:10

Absolutely YANBU. That's awful.

Crazybaglady · 01/11/2015 08:12

YANBU. Our house got egged last night. My partner chased after them, scared the shit out of them and nicked their eggs. My hero.

RainbowBodyDouble · 01/11/2015 08:19

YABU for questioning their parentage.

The only time we had bother at Halloween was in the Officers Family Quarters where some little Rupert was home from private school in the U.S. and taught the other kids the fun of TPing Hmm

Cold soapy water with fairy, not hot or the egg will start to cook Haloween Sad

Tea towel to dry it.

Don't move here oop north, mischief night the local shops won't sell eggs or flour. That is bad to wash off!

WomanScorned · 01/11/2015 08:22

We came across one house with a broken egg on the doorstep last night. My DS dropped his plastic spider in the mess, and was quite upset that I wouldn't pick it out for him. So, no, YANBU - strangle away on his behalf, as well as your own!

zara020 · 01/11/2015 08:22

Some kids use it as an excuse to be even worse than normal. We put a note out asking them not to knock or ring due to sleeping baby, they did it anyway and then some. Their parents don't care. And I know they don't because they let them run riot all year around.

Bunbaker · 01/11/2015 08:23

Mischief night is on 4th November here. Although it seems to have died out, thank goodness.

Having your property egged is not nice. I hope you managed to get it cleaned off.

Cookingongas · 01/11/2015 08:24

I like Halloween, I joined in, decorated, did the pumpkin- and promptly caught some dickheads ready to tpy home last night. If our gate wasn't noisy I wouldn't have gone outSadAngry people can really ruin it. Explaining why the 'happy hallowe'eners ' ran away and left 4rolls of andrex to my 4 year old was not fun.

Hygge · 01/11/2015 08:24

You're never going to find out unfortunately.

For the past few years we've had lovely halloween's, small groups of people, most if not all of them sticking to decorated houses.

Last night was a bit different. Either people were out in massive groups that overwhelmed you at the door or it was groups of very much older teens, not in costume but roaming around the streets shouting at other people or each other.

And one neighbour a couple of streets away had one of those 'funny' pumpkins with "fuck off" carved in it, which must have been a lovely sight for the people who live in the house opposite him. I almost hope someone did egg his door.

I haven't been outside to look at our house/cars yet but the only time we've had anything like this was one year on 23rd December when someone egged my car.

Our street is really long, with lots of other roads leading off from it. On our section between two of those side roads are eighteen houses and ours was the only decorated one. For that reason, not many people walk along it for trick or treating, so hopefully we've avoided anything too bad.

I hope your son and your door are okay now OP.

Savagebeauty · 01/11/2015 08:25

Utter cunts.

EdithWeston · 01/11/2015 08:32

Well, I thought Hallowe'en was going well. Lots of happy trick or treaters. Pumpkins in when sweeties ran out.

Only about a third of houses on our street take part, anyhow.

We were egged.

It does not appear that anyone else was.

Complete mood collapse on my part from last night.

BathshebaDarkstone · 01/11/2015 08:34

YWNBU. Little sods. Angry

zara020 · 01/11/2015 08:36

I wish Halloween wasn't a thing. Its like x factor. Forced upon us and totally shit.

PacificDogwod · 01/11/2015 08:37

We were egged years ago - the egg soaked in to the stone facade of our house and the stains are still there Angry

YANBU to be livid.

We were out last night (not Halloween related) so had next to nothing to do with Halloween. Result!

lastqueenofscotland · 01/11/2015 08:40

This happened to my mum last year - must have been a dozen eggs and flour and she had suspicions as to who it was (group of particularly self important teens on her road)

Emailed their parents and a few others (just to make it look like she wasn't so sure) called their bluff saying she had cctv (does she heck) and that she would be reporting it to the police as vandalism to a listed building (the house is listed but she wasn't arsed about police) on of the teens saw the email panicked and owned up. and his parents made them pay for a cleaner to of their saturday job wages. result!

DoctorFunkenstein · 01/11/2015 08:50

I'm sorry you had this happen OP. I was apprehensive last night; we moved here last Christmas so it was our first Hallowe'en here. The town stages a Zombie Crawl, the idea of which I hate (I just don't like grown ups wearing fancy dress, let alone fake injuries and blood etc) and there are a lot of children in our road - many of whom ds knows, but anyway.

Last night there was a pumpkin lit on nearly every wall, it was a bit of a riot out there, families and children everywhere - it seemed like a friendly atmosphere, but we went into town to get a takeaway, and ds3 was a nightmare on the way home, screaming and refusing to be carried or go in his buggy so we got home shattered and I blew out the pumpkin as I was going to put him to bed and didn't want him disturbed.

A few people still rang the bell - I let the older two go and knock on a few doors - and I was terrified, but actually it was fine.

I'm used to living in a street with mainly adults, no children at all, and no one ever did pumpkins or sweets really, so it was a bit of a shock.

I hate that sort of thing though, carnivals, fancy dress etc so for me it was 'shut the door and wait till it's over'.

I am going to check our front door in a minute..

Sending huge sympathy. Flowers

DoctorFunkenstein · 01/11/2015 08:53

Oh and what Zara said...private parties, all very well if you fancy it but a load of people you have never met knocking on your door at night, and throwing stuff at your house?

That can fuck right off. And yes X factor is a good comparison.

ClashCityRocker · 01/11/2015 08:54

Shops round here won't sell flour or eggs to young people in the run up to Halloween and mischief night.

We've never been egged and haven't seen much evidence of it locally so I assume it must be working - I know it was a real problem a few years ago, with people being scared to leave the house on Halloween or mischief night.

I must admit eggs and tp-ing used to play a part in the mischief nights of my youth - but it would in the main be egging each other rather than cars or houses. We did tp the bandstand one year though.

Witchend · 01/11/2015 08:58

Our village, about 10years ago joined forces with the local police to organise an event with fireworks on the green.
Some of the kids were getting very silly the previous year and so the church and the police got together and organised it. We hardly get any trick or treaters now, the only ones are real tinies. Everyone goes down to the green... And ww get no trouble there either.

ICanSeeForMiles · 01/11/2015 09:02

What's tp-ing?

ArmchairTraveller · 01/11/2015 09:04

Throwing rolls of toilet paper at the house, it's an American thing. They unroll and spread everywhere.
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GreenPotato · 01/11/2015 09:05

This is awful - are you all in England? We're in Scotland and had a really nice Halloween. 40,000 kids out on the streets (from tinies with their parents, to teenagers) - they all tell a joke and get a treat, if you want visitors you put your pumpkin out, anyone else gets left alone. I've never heard of or seen any egging.

We do join in with halloween (big style) but I would hate to feel I had to do it to avoid being vandalised.

I think I'd be out in front of my house with a camera and my scariest shitty look.

ArmchairTraveller · 01/11/2015 09:08

It was all very sweet round here, lots of teens had Halloween parties and there were at least two murder/mystery scavenger hunts with the teens in fancy dress hunting round town.

gamerchick · 01/11/2015 09:08

How did you not hear. Pelting eggs off the door makes me jump a foot?

No egg last night so I'll be cleaning up the last lot I left on purpose today.

Waste of eggs Angry