Someone stole all the Halloween treats 😡

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I went out around 4pm for 20 minutes to pick up the kids and we come back to discover everything gone... I put out a pumpkin on top of a plastic storage box (rain protection) with two bowls of miniature packets Cadbury chocolates and some selfish git has swiped the lot...

Why are some people so selfish?
AIBU to not bother next year? 😭

Normally this happens to us. Whilst we’re out trick or treating I tend to leave a box of sweets out. Usually they’re all gone really quickly. This time we came back after a really long walk and there were quite a few left. I don’t think our decorations were that obvious this year!

We normally get lots of trick or treaters but had hardly any this year! We’ve left a bowl out before and not had problems, it’s quite common to do it this way as people head out with their kids so aren’t in!

Because if they want to do it to feel included in their community I don't see why they shouldn't! Just because you aren't witnessing it doesn't mean you won't feel included.

”If anyone needs a hard hit on the hands with a ruler it’s them”

I put 150 small haribo bags in a big bowl as treats along with a massive big bowl holding 5 kilo of cherry tomatoes as tricks as got autistic children who hates door being open , I was left with 50 bags of sweets and all the tomatoes gone checked ring door bell every child said thank you and took hand full of tomatoes as well as one bag of sweets , one even said thank you for my school snack tomorrow , lots of polite children tonight x

This comment is peak MN 🤣

I'm getting Hot Fuzz vibes from this thread.

Thefts?!
So they are now stealing things other than sweets.

Taking Halloween treats left out isn’t theft btw. Greedy yes, theft no!

I put 2 lit pumpkins out around 5pm..went out at 9pm to bring them in and they are gone...my son found bits of it up the road...I feel really pissed off about it.

I took DD for the first time and was pleasantly surprised by how nice the whole thing was. It all had a fun atmosphere. We only knocked on doors of near neighbours but had a walk further afield and DD did take a sweet from a couple of bowls that had been left out.

We went early, as soon as it was dark, so that we could go for our own wander and were back by 5:30 so that we could have the fun of opening the door to kids here.

Completely disagree with the comment re older kids without parents. All of the teenagers who knocked here were polite and were really sweet to DD who passed the sweets bowl to them. They said how great her costume was and were really sweet and admired DD's decorations she'd made.

Very positive first Halloween experience for us.

I went to a door this year that had left out a table and a box with little bags and a poem basically saying take one bag, don't mean leave some for others. There were still about 5/6 bags in the box and this was about 6.30pm my girls took one each. I actually wondered about doing the same next year. But this is my worry!

Mr Gryce , the Headmaster from Kes and his cane!

You know what's worse than children taking all the sweets at trick or treat?

Me taking a bucket full of sweets to work today for staff, there must have been atleast 80 to 90 small sweets in there. 3 hours later I come to the staff room and there's nothing. Literally nothing. I ask my team if they had any and some of them said no.

Adults. Full grown up #ucking greedy adults, that had the cheek to grab all of it and keep them to themselves. Never received a thanks either. So never again.

Terrible state of affairs when you can't even leave your front gate outside anymore 😞

Happened to us a couple of years ago as well. Now I’ll only put a few out and then go back and refill.

We went to a ‘small village’ this eve. Our group were all ages between 3 and 7. But I noticed a few groups of ‘older’ children, one group went passed us and made a point of shouting out ‘We’ve emptied all the sweets down there none left for you’ and laughed. And they had!! The next few houses we came to had left sweet bowls outside and they were all empty.

I think Trick or Treating really should be for primary age children.

I left a bowl out.

They nicked THE BOWL

All the kids in our road go out together and only knock at pre-arranged houses. Much safer than leaving a bowl out for randoms!

Hmmm must just be anywhere then and I guess lucky it doesn’t happen. Poor kids 😔

Humans as a whole, cannot be trusted

I’ve opened the door with a big bowl of decent goodies and said for them to take one

parents have stood there smirking whilst the young kids tried to grab handfuls and empty the bowl in one

i don’t bother anymore

It’s not theft if you’ve left them out to take

I agree with you.

You can't just leave them out that's what people will do, we had an awful family tonight turn up and 2 out of 4 of the kids shoved their fists in the bowl after my sister said' pick ONE and then walked back to the parents without even saying thankyou, I went ' yeah ok thankyou then maybe?' and the dad stuck his middle finger up at us! The kids weren't even very young I would say between 8-14! We live in a nice area and have a huge park/field separating us from the rough area and never usually get issues, people posted saying they had seen loads cutting through the park to get to our area and causing problems cutting infront of families and being rude to those that actually took part and decorated, we probably won't bother next year