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.

Why would there be a cut off at 14??

Tell you what, if you're convinced they were committing an offence, don't waste time arguing on here, phone 101. Then do come back and report on the response you get.

OP - what is it you are expecting the police to do exactly?

Don't ring 101 but I hate this time of year.

someoneelse that may be the point the OP is trying to make (badly) but it’s still wrong. Kids of all ages and backgrounds can be cheeky and push the limits of acceptable behaviour. To assume that they are out specifically to cause trouble or to intimidate is reading way too much into it and is bloody insulting.
The OP has seen these teens and made the assumption that they were out to cause trouble without evidence or much thought. It was just because of their age. I’m hoping she changes her mind about teenagers before her own kids get there!

You asked AIBU, and yes most of us think you are. Sorry!

It was cheeky and irritating, but not a police matter. Unclench op.

I've had teenagers and I wouldn't be OK with this. I told mine when they got to 13 that they were too old to be doing trick or treat.

It isn't a crime, but it is anti-social and could be scary for the elderly and vulnerable. Our CPSO is brilliant and would be happy for this to be raised as a concern. If it was continuing rather than one off, he would probably make sure he visited the relevant streets when he was next on evening shift and have a word with the teens concerned. Do you have the contact for your CPSO op? You could email them and if it was part of a pattern of teens being a nuscience, they might be able to have a word.

I hate trick or treating on Halloween so I would be even more annoyed if someone (teenagers) knocked my door a week early. Not much you can do about it though other than telling them to f*ck off.

Those poster which the police issue saying please don't trick of treat here just encourage eggs to to thrown at those houses.

YABU - our police forces are MASSIVELY underfunded and understaffed, please leave them to get on with what's important.

That being said, there's little else in the world that irritates me as much as entitled teenage shits.

I was in a pub restaurant on Saturday night and at about 9.30pm two young girls (about 12 or 13) came in dressed in brightly coloured basques with tutu type skirts and facepaint. They were walking around all the tables saying "trick or treat". Considering it's pretty unlikely that anyone is going to have sweets on them I presume they were expecting money. Is was very odd and uncomfortable. We didn't give them anything but I'[m sure many people did.

Either way no YANBU but calling 101 is unnecessary. I would have just said it's not halloween and shut the door.

OP it doesn't seem like anything anyone says on here is what you want to hear.

What responses were you after?

A week early is cheeky.
Trick or treating without a costume is cheeky.
That they're teenagers is irrelevant.

My teenage dd has carried on with tricky or treating. She goes out with a small group of other girls, they all dress up, they only go to houses with pumpkins and/or hallowe'en decorations and are very polite.
I thought that she'd have grown out of it years ago, but she loves having an excuse to dress up and comes back ridiculously excited with the sweets that she's been given.

Some people have got a real downer on teenagers. I wonder if their attitudes will change as their own children get older.

Sparking there are plenty of people saying they don't like trick or treating full stop or dont like it by teens. Or are you just selectivley reading?

When people start throwing eggs at your house, you're very welcome to call the police. Until a crime has been committed, don't waste police resources.

Meh i always have a pumpkin and a bowl of sweets on Halloween if they came around a week early I would tell them to come back on Halloween, im not bothered how old they are though we had s few teens last year they were perfectly happy with a handful of sweets and polite with it.

Yes its annoying, no one is arguing with you there. Is it illegal? No. Are the parents condoning it? Possibly, but more likely they are not even aware their kids are doing it. Would the police be interested in a bunch of kids who might have attempted to steal from you or egg your house but didnt? Not in the slightest.

Its a PITA, but hardly worth getting worked up about.

Op there’s a difference between annoying, even inappropriate and illegal.
No laws were broken here, the police won’t be interested. If you genuinely have reason to believe they were trying to break in and steal then that’s a different matter but there’s no evidence of that from your op.

No, not at all, but you aren't really acknowledging anyone's replies OP. Just occasionally writing a line more of what you think is wrong.

Last year they used that trick to scout out which homes were empty and they could burgle in the night.

In my neighbourhood that is. Theres a lot of burglary here so we share stories on an app

'I'm in court next week'. That would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

the answer is 'go check the calendar'. The answer on the 31st for anyone ignoring the polite 'not playing' sign is 'trick' followed by a bucket of water.

I might be joking, depends if anyone tries it!