Someone stole all the Halloween treats 😡

[Usernamqwerty]

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? 😭

@IrishNinja LOVE IT

I stopped getting treats in a few years ago after I got fed up with people grabbing handfuls and not saying thanks. I don't answer the door

We had some little sods, smash our pumpkin and nick the candle out of it. It was nearly spent but in a glass pot.
Apparently, there is a tik tok video, making smashing pumpkins the new trend. This upset my son, he got angry about it. I told him not to worry. But he isn't keen on Halloween any way.

I would have paid to see that 😂😂😂

Loving the casuistry and sophistry of ch not having ‘impulse control’ what they are doing is stealing no more or less - my whole huge cauldron was taken so I hexed them and took in my witch mannequin 🧙‍♀️ Back to turnips and duck apple for me - whole thing is getting too bloody Yankee for me anyway 🧙‍♀️😡🐈‍⬛

I would have been furious too, I took an 8 year old and a 7 year old trick or treating in our local village (only knocking at house with decorations in the window / pumpkins out) and any bowls we came across they politely took one sweetie each. My older son went with 3 friends and apparently they caught some teens about to swipe a whole bowl full of sweets and so they told them off and shamed them into apologising! I think it helps that it's a very small rural community so everyone knows everyone else (including children knowing everyone's parents), so any wrongdoing spotted would get back to parents very quickly! it's only really children older than 11/12 that go without parents around here, so they definitely have impulse control and know right from wrong. Mostly they are well behaved and fair I think.

Happened to us!!!! People are horrible to ruin it for everyone else

This has made my day!! 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Greedy bastards 😡

That happened to our neighbours too - luckily we had some spare, so we gave them what we could. Apparently there was a group of teenagers going round, being aggressive, and pushing younger children out of the way, too.

Do people really leave the bowls outside? What do you expect will happen? Do you live in the UK? You're supposed to open the door and divvy them out yourself. What did you expect?

I had a teen who asked for the Maltesers too (my toddler had handed him a Mars). I said sure and he put his hand in my bowl and grabbed a big handful of packets like he was being slick.

I was mad but didn't call him out because I had both the child and the candy bowl in my arms.

Yes, maybe he comes from a bad home, maybe he doesn't get many sweets but it was super rude and irked the shit out of me.

I offered the second option to his two friends and one was gracious and the other was too embarrassed to accept.

What great lads!

Ours got snaffled pretty quick too while we were out. I put the second half in once I got home, as predicted it would happen and at least a few others got a look in (presumably before a second guzzle guts got in there to hoover what was left?!?)

Lots of sympathy here for those not comfortable opening the door to children, but none for children knocking on adults doors and perhaps being too shy to say thank you or come up with a joke at the drop of a hat.

We had a full range from super chatty, to very shy. They all get sweets and compliments from me and I don't expect them to fall over in gratitude for a mini Mars bar!

If you're just looking to judge children on their social skills and manners, you're doing it wrong.

Awww that's dissapointing. You had faith and that's been taken away along with your sweets. It's likely that there was more than one person there and maybe it was even a Group of children. Even if only one or two I would assume they will share them with their friends/siblings so you've still made Halloween a special night for others and if you look at it in the way of that you had a quota of treats to give out then you've not lost out really apart from by feeling annoyed at the way this happened xx

Yes this is sweet, but I am wondering if anyone pessimistic about children in general would read this and think the fact that the lads knew they were being filmed and even showed their faces and spoke to the camera is a sign that they were wanting acknowledgement for it and that the fact that they had a large collection of sweets to enable them to do this was suggestive that they were not bothered about giving some away as they had more than they could possibly eat. Maybe some of the worst offenders of the pessimism towards children might even secretly think it could be guilt and that they had emptied out someone else's stash of sweets...........lol. personally I don't think that , but I also don't think it's an act worth of crying over lmao xxxx

I don't blame any kids who would take more than a small sweet each. Especially round my area with houses willing to answer the door or give treats being in short supply these days. The last few years I've seen a rise in signs in Windows stating that they don't celebrate Halloween and any knocking at the door would be construed as harassment and some even mentioned trespassing. I've also been witness to multiple conversations about how trick or treating is begging and scrounging. It's really sad as I used to love Halloween as a child and getting dressed up and I never cared if I got just a penny or a sweet as a lot of the thrill was the homeowner complimenting me on my costume and getting to sing for them xxx

To be honest I believe that back In the late 80s and early 90s children were less polite as back then a lot of kids thought it was ok to be cheeky or rude if people didn't give them something for Halloween and I clearly remember this frightening girl on our estate who would at some houses end the sky is blue with 'if you haven't got a pound then 50p will do and if you havent got 50p then I say fuck you !' We all thought she was terribly daring , but the more astute of us would go to the houses after her being super nice and polite and usually we would get more than scary girl did lol xx

This happened to us two years running and then the next kids came along, saw there were no sweets left for them as they had all been nicked, smashed our pumpkins, pulled down our decs, egged our fence and smashed our plant pot. That was last year, thankfully my kids are teenagers now so this year I said ‘no more!’

Sorry this happened

4pm was early tho nice of you to put out

dd5 and 2 of her school friends and mum and I went out at 5. Went round the block. And back home by 545 as dd likes to open the door as well to t&t

gets v excited when doorbell goes bless her so did home 545/630

she did when was 2 as well

all of ours were polite and took one and said thank you

and I would say lovely manners

sadly there are always a few that spoil anything

I cannot believe how many people are suggesting we were “asking for it “ by leaving treats out! I left treats out with note to take 1 whilst sorting my disabled son out - 30 mins max! I saw kids on doorbell on phone and heard parents tell them to take all treats and bowl - I give up and will never participate in this shenanigans again 👎🏽

I’ve gone all out for Halloween over the years .. turned my house green (by changing lightbulbs ) .. done apple bobbing .. had parties and invited so many kids (tiny village school) had 30+ kids trailing through my house leaving sticky stuff over the walls and carpets that I’ve had to scrub off the following day 🙈 and then we’d all go trick or treating around the village .. was just so lovely - used to take me a day to carve pumpkins and another day to decorate the place
i left a huge bowl of sweets out during covid Halloween .. (as per rules at the time) .. I took my own kids out around the village. My other half pulled into the drive and two brothers literally ran past him with armfuls of sweets dropping them as they ran 😡 I knew who they were .. they are the spiteful little fuckers in the village!
I haven’t bothered this year ..my house was in darkness .. not just because of those two little twats - we were away for half term and I just couldn’t be bothered to go in to the loft to get it all out Sunday night

The pumpkin was smashed and sweets taken by three tweens early in the evening. I’m not going to bother next year.

We had quite a few groups of early teens, one of which they were young lads in hoodies & they said they were dressed up as a gang! All of the teens were very respectful & well mannered (and we don’t live in a particularly nice neighbourhood. One group had a teen hang back (we have signs up about our woofy, but giant & v friendly dogs) & one of the teens asked if he could take sweets for his friend who was scared of dogs.

My daughter (an adult, goes all out with decorations & does all the Halloween organising) was taken how respectful the teen was to think of their mate (she could see him at the end of our path).

Maybe it’s because we have a prominent yellow sign notifying people we have cctv in compliance with the 2018 Data Protection Act (with our phone number displayed, husband’s hot on GDPR) but we’ve never had anything stolen or rude teens.

I’m guessing the teens were making up for COVID killing the past 2 years when they would’ve been in their trick or treating prime, it was pretty much a 70/30 split of unaccompanied early teens to younger kids with their parents.

Some great costumes this year, a tiny toddler Spider-Man (with head tipped back to see out of his mask’s eye holes) and a group of young teens dressed as zombie killers, splattered in blood with (very fake looking) plastic cleavers & plastic limbs!