Whatever happened to Mischief Night?

[Judge Smails]

What a bunch of faggot, pansy kids in my neighborhood.

I've been putting off going to bed because I'm a little paranoid that something might happen. Every twenty minutes I look out of my window to make sure that no one has egged, or is egging, my car. I'm worried that soemone's going to abscond with my strawbale, mum, pumpkin and scarecrow display. However, everything seems to be in complete order and there is not a broken egg, flour sock, shaving cream streak or toilet paper shred on the street. Not only that, but I haven't seen another human being all night.

Please use this thread to report on any damage that has hopefully befallen your property, or that of someone dear to you, so that you may restore my faith in the capricious indifference and general disrespect for the social contract that I hope and pray that the American youth is still capable of. Any members in the Detroit area? I know you guys can come through for me.

[ahhdurr]

Requirements:

imagination
a set of balls
human interaction

sadly lacking in today's youth.

[paracetamol flanders]

You mean Devil's Night? Detroit is burning!

[ChrisTheCop]

Someone stole my cable.

[spoon]

Yah, it may sound weird but I still can't believe I've yet to get egged, EVER! I lived for mischief night when I was a kid, and we had some real fun paying back teachers and dickhead neighbors. Not that I always waited until 10/30 to do so.

[PapaBear]

I had never heard about any of these until I was an adult. As a kid, we just did all of our pranks on Halloween. Kids don't do shit anymore. They all have their parents with them for one thing. How gay. Shit. Kids can't even play hide 'n seek anymore, because every house has a fence and security lights.

[commish13]

It's a sad thing that so little of this goes on any more. It was my generation (kids my age and everyone who was in 9-11th grade while I was a senior) who were pretty much the last of the "anything goes" childhood.

My parents never wanted us inside, and as long as we didn't get into too much trouble, they didn't give a damn what we did. We used to play 'manhunt' when we were younger (for those that aren't familiar, it's pretty much just tag, but at night with teams and whatnot), and I remember one time where one of my friends threw a wiffle ball bat underneath a passing car, and the guy stopped, got out and started yelling at us. It was nearby to my house, and my dad happened to be outside and heard it, so without even knowing what the stupid shit we had done was, he came out and defended us and got the guy to pretty quickly just up and leave.

I was pretty much part of the last generation where it was okay not not wear a helmet while riding your bike, where kids were never home and always playing a pickup game of baseball or football depending on the season, and it was always no pads and complete full contact. We made treehouses, had dirt (and usually rock) fights, all that shit, and by the time my youngest brother got to that age (he's a little less than 4 years behind me), all of that was pretty much over.

I remember one Cabbage Night, which is what we called it, where we grabbed a jack-o-lantern off somebody's porch, and a younger girl saw us and came out, and I actually looked into her eyes while I destroyed it with a baseball bat. Those were the good old days. We used to have to beware of the older kids who had cars driving around the "egg mobile", a jeep that they drove all around town that night and used to throw eggs and other possibly injurious stuff at the younger kids who were trying to get their own mischief done. By the time I was old enough to drive, that stuff was years done with.

It's a fucking shame anymore.

[IMSlacker]

All the kids today are too busy getting gnarly for Jesus with the likes of Stevie Baldwin and his Livin' It Action Sport Ministry (http://www.livinit.com/). It's sad.

[Heather 8]

We just had stupid kids doing ring-and-runs last night. Disconnect a wire in the doorbell, problem solved.

[biozombie]

haha, back when I was a kid we always knew we'd get caught if we went out doing stupid shit on the 30th, so any other night in October became fair game, as long as we could shoplift some eggs or steal some toilet paper & bars of soap from home. I kind of miss seeing pumpkin guts smeared all over just about any street anywhere.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

the sissification of America

everything is wrong, u cant buy Eggs or Shaving Cream anywhere unless you have a cool adult get it for you


so ghey, all the fun stuff that kids do are being taken away, and for all the nay sayers

grow a pair, clean your hair face or car, you got egged or shaving creamed, deal with it

[Fezticle98]

Cabbage night?

Everything is a prosecutable offense anymore. Fuckin litigious society.

[grlNIN]

I wouldn't say that my parents were terribly strict, like Commish had said about his, my parents didn't really want us in the house a lot during the day when we were younger. Combine this with having two older brothers to look out for me as well as no less than 20 kids in the cul de sac we lived in, there was ever hardly a reason as to why you wouldn't be outside unless you were grounded or sick.

Up until recent years(I'd say about 4), i never knew that they now have curfews for not even Mischief night but also the night before, i guess that is thier way of curbing kids' way of switching the prank night. Last year i knew the curfew was set to 8pm.

I will say though that over the past few weeks i have seen more displays on houses for Halloween then I've probably seen combined in the last 5 years.

My brothers and i also never went out on the 30th because it's my Dad's birthday.

[ahhdurr]

nothing.

I have a huge smashable pumpkin in front of my house too.

I'm gonna fucking smash it when we get done with using it fo....

(nevermind - my wife will likely make pumpkin muffins/pie/cookies etc with it ... which are too delicious to pass up for vandlizing my pumpkin)

[joethebartender]

My car was wrapped in toilet paper when I came outside this morning. (and I didn't do it this time) They even made a nice tent over it using some of the low branches of a tree over it. I was just thankful that there were no eggs or shaving cream on it.

[frye hole]

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[Sinestro]

Yah, it may sound weird but I still can't believe I've yet to get egged, EVER!

Open invite to egg Spoon at the next softball game?

[Sinestro]

Whatever happened to Mischief Night?


The economy. Who has money to buy eggs, socks, toilet paper, shaving cream and other stuff???

[IMSlacker]

I think part of the problem might be that the name "mischief night" is totally gay.

[spoon]

I think part of the problem might be that the name "mischief night" is totally gay.

Mischief night is WAAAYYYY better than Cabbage or Goosey Night.



Pumpkin bowling anyone!? Oh the good times.

[outlawfrank]

You mean Devil's Night? Detroit is burning!

It's sad I can't watch the glow on the horizon anymore. The once great city burning down. The city officials call it angels night now. Bullshit. In the early eighties between 500-800 arson fires would erupt on October 30.

[donnie_darko]

back in washington n.j. we'd buy extra potatoes for mischief night!

woooohaaaaaa

[ahhdurr]

I think part of the problem might be that the name "mischief night" is totally gay.

what do you suggest?

[Stankfoot]

I think part of the problem might be that the name "mischief night" is totally gay.

He's right - we prefer to call it "Hi jinx Evening" ...

[mildly amusing]

Mischief night is WAAAYYYY better than Cabbage or Goosey Night.


we called it goosey night here in north jersey...what the fuck is that even supposed to mean....at any rate, there was one lone piece of tp on a tree branch when i woke up this morning...kids are getting lazy...

[Hottub]

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[ahhdurr]

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You mean "when you dressed up sharp and felt alright?"