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

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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.

Yes, please do call 101.

The police have a very special unit called 'Really important stuff that is very urgent and needs to be dealt with above all the violent crimes, even though we are stretched'.

This includes people having to answer their door and sit back down again. They will be right on it for you.

Do you have actual evidence that someone was trying to commit burglary on you?
No.

Did they vandalise your property? No.

You had kids at the door trying thier luck end off. Stop quoting something that might have happened sonetime to someone else to justify your blanket condemnation of teens.

It was a knock at the door. You dealt with it. Why are you trying to justify calling the police? Move on.

Moist I think the offices next door to that Unit are the ones for 'Things that could have happened but didn't' emergency response unit.

YANBU They shouldn't be trick or treating it's way too early, I despise the carol singers who come round the week after Halloween.

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There is a middle ground between being fine with your own teenager doing this and calling the police about it.

My DS is 13 and he will be going trick or treating, in costume, next week. (Only on the right day and only to houses where there are pumpkins and other Halloween decorations on display). He loves Halloween and is not at all intimidating or obnoxious - why should I put a stop to his fun just because he's had another birthday?

I know another teen who went round on 1/11 offering to take any left over treats that people hadn't disposed of the night before - and very surprisingly got quite a haul

This is actually a totally genius idea! This guy will go far (or land in the nearby prison).

When we pointed out they were early they said it was because "we have a wide area to cover."

Didn't anyone else find this funny? I'm imagining them with clipboards and charts, and targets from Head Office.

I missed that bit - maybe they had a planning meeting the day before?

With a whiteboard and drymarkers, Cold.

Call 101 very funny op its halloween not april fools!

No one is "cool" with it, but knocking on people's doors is not illegal.

Teenagers begging for money is totally unacceptable

Op. Do you not see any difference between begging for money and trick or treating?

If you see T and T-ing as begging then it’s also unacceptable for young children out with their parents to do it as well isn’t it?

I think the point is that teens from functional families will not be doing this as the parents/carers will explain it is potentially frightening for many elderly people.

Which means that those still doing it are dubious.

Yes it's unacceptable
Yes it's annoying
Yes is cheeky
Yes it's early

It's still not a police matter UNLESS they then egg your house, break in, keep knocking or get intimidating.

When we pointed out they were early they said it was because "we have a wide area to cover."

I loved that one too.
The tradition where I come from is for the soon to be secondary school graduates to walk down the town centre where their school is with a huge tableau with photographs of students and the class teacher to be displayed in shop windows where they stay till the end of the school year.
The students would sing and ask people for a little contribution for their farewell party as a class. Then we'd go to a pub and spend it all on food and booze.
Wonder what the stuck up posters saying teenagers shouldn't be begging say to that. I'm not exactly a wild child but boy, did I enjoy that.

I would worry about what they would do if you turn them away - under the guise of it being the 'trick' because they didn't get the 'treat'. I would be waiting for at least eggs on the windows if not bricks through them. However I am a pessimist with a tendency towards paranoia.

I thought anyone over 14 was classed as begging?

You might want to see someone about your phobia of teenagers op

Teenagers begging for money is totally unacceptable

It's not illegal though.

I think it's definitely wrong. They really are too old, and it's early. But it's not a police matter, so to phone them would bu.
(That said I hate trick or treating in every form, even little ones doing it. Yes they look lovely in their costumes, but it screams begging and desperate and cheeky to expect strangers to give money or sweets to your child to me)