To think that trick or treating by teenagers and a week early is unacceptable?

[Creambun2]

Group of four teenage lads knocked on my door last night for trick or treat. Wearing normal clothes. Loved the jack Willis hoody and 99p mask combo.

Told them halloween was next week and aren't they a bit old. One of them retorted. "I'm in court next week".

Gave them nothing but saw them carrying on down the steet. Should I have called 101?

I hate this time of yesr.

But we are not saying we think it's great (my teenage ds will be out t & t on Halloween, but not before) - just that it's manageable without a 101 call. Lots of annoyances don't need police involvement.

People aren’t saying it’s fine, they’re saying the teens are being cheeky and the police wouldn’t do anything.
My teen isn’t daft enough to try it (and doesn’t T or T anyway) but some are.
There’s a huge difference between condoning it and going ott in your reaction to cheeky kids.

@KarmaNoMore here lovely, let me do that for you........treating

YANBU

It's very cheeky. I would have been annoyed with them.

They knocked you answered and told them no. They didnt threaten you they didn't damage properyy they spoke to you .
Where is the drama?
Dont you think that the rest of us aren't capable of doing the same?

Its definately cheeky but not illegal. I had a couple of primary kids last year chancing their luck last year but they were told to come back on 31st. No big deal.

Oh and we get teens round here on halloween. They are always dressed up and especially the girls look fantastic. No problem with teens, if they make a bit of an effort and do a turn then they get sweets.

I'd rather my teens didn't trick or treat but in the grand scheme of things there is a lot worse they could be up to.

Didn't I hear on the radio recently that due to police cutbacks they are barely responding to shoplifting, petty crime etc ..... so bothering the police with this would be a total over-reaction.

Trick or treating at any age is completely yuck behaviour. They all get politely told we have nothing for them here. But not worth getting the police or fussed about.

I haven't seen anyone guying for about 30 years!

What do you think the over stretched police force is going to do about a group of cheeky teenage lads? Calls like that are why people can't get through to 101 to report actual crimes.

When you turned them away, they just left. They were not aggressive at all, unless there's a massive drip feed coming.

Yes, they were cheeky.
No, I wouldn't "let" my teens do it.
No it is not a reason to call 101.

A common thing is for distraction by teens at the door while other ones nip round the back to steal phones and bags.

Whats guying?

creambun I think that really is grasping at straws. They knocked on trying their luck and got nowhere. No point in making up imaginary scenarios of what they could have done or was thinking of doing.

I've never had them early but as a kid I would always go trick or treating the day before too as youde get money rather than sweets.
I pop on note on the door about 8.30 saying sorry no more trick or treaters kids in bed.
I always give them the prawn cocktail crisps to ones too old to trick or treat to get rid of them

No one supports it OP but it’s hardly a police matter

Guying has to be done early to build up a pot of money for fireworks.

What’s guying?
Ok now I feel old! It doesn’t really happen now since the organised bonfire events became more popular but kids used to make a figure to burn on the bonfire and take round the local streets asking for a penny for the guy.
Haven’t seen it done in years.

OP I get the feeling you just don’t like teenagers very much, you’re absolutely determined to pin something/anything on these kids!
Assuming you locked your back door as well you had nothing to worry about.

Also teens throw eggs and flour at halloween time.

It's always the teenagers isn't it? get the blame for everything. No under 13s would ever do antisocial things at Halloween.
They are all vandals and burglars the lot of them.

clearly some parents approve of this then!

Oh please stop the mock outrage, no-one here at all (parents or otherwise) is saying its ok to come trick or treating a week early.

All the teens round here are too lazy to do the egg and flour thing, some of them take younger siblings out on Halloween but most of them just hang around with each other totally ignoring everyone else.
I don’t think most teenagers are as interested in being arseholes to the general public (or even interacting with them) as some people think they are!

There have been teens do all kinds of things, yes, but these teens didn't did they?