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in a few years safety reflective vest will be the law on halloween trick or treating

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DutchJazzer

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SAY NO TO SAFETY VEST.
dont give kids candy if they are wearing a safty vest.

we gotta nip this ridiculous thing in the BUTT
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How dare someone do something with their own child that I do not like!?!?! HOW DARE THEY!?!?!?!?
 
In Utah there are whole neighborhoods where people only "trunk or treat" on a Saturday night near Halloween in the local church parking lot. Because, you know, kidnappers. Kidnappers are everywhere, waiting behind every single bush just waiting there to snatch kids.
 
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LogGrad98 said:
In Utah there are whole neighborhoods where people only "trunk or treat" on a Saturday night near Halloween in the local church parking lot. Because, you know, kidnappers. Kidnappers are everywhere, waiting behind every single bush just waiting there to snatch kids.
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They are starting to get bigger elsewhere too but Utah seems to be at the front of that trend. They might as well just buy a couple of bags of those little candy bar mixes and give them to their own kids. 100% of the fun is going door to door.
 
LogGrad98 said:
In Utah there are whole neighborhoods where people only "trunk or treat" on a Saturday night near Halloween in the local church parking lot. Because, you know, kidnappers. Kidnappers are everywhere, waiting behind every single bush just waiting there to snatch kids.
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I've taken my younger kids to trunk or treat but I also let them go out house to house if they want. The think I like about good trunk or treats is that there is more than just a bunch of cars lined up. They have haunted "houses" scary music, games...
 
Stoked said:
I've taken my younger kids to trunk or treat but I also let them go out house to house if they want. The think I like about good trunk or treats is that there is more than just a bunch of cars lined up. They have haunted "houses" scary music, games...
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Then in your area they are overachievers. Most of them we have been involved in were just cars in a parking lot, kids meandering around, and parents standing around talking. One year I showed up in freddy kruger garb and ran through the crowds trying to dig up some excitement that ended with a discussion with "the brethren" about how that image was inappropriate at a holiday function. Um, yeah.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Then in your area they are overachievers. Most of them we have been involved in were just cars in a parking lot, kids meandering around, and parents standing around talking. One year I showed up in freddy kruger garb and ran through the crowds trying to dig up some excitement that ended with a discussion with "the brethren" about how that image was inappropriate at a holiday function. Um, yeah.
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Man they are uptight.

My response would have been "the sticks lodged in your back side are destroying the Lords fun. Please stop".

I have seen some trunk or treats like that and we don't stay. Kids need to be kids, let them have fun.
 
Trunk or Treat has taken all the fun out of Halloween. They work it into the school day here and it's way over the top - an entire parking lot for of cars with candy and being it's New Jersey they're all trying to out-do each other. My kid gets home at 3 and already has a sack full of candy. You think he's going to go door-to-door after a haul like that?
 
So we have been able to gussy up the trunk or treat in our current area for the past few years. I cook chili or pulled pork or frito taco soup (OMgoodness that is good stuff) and we give away food for real to the trunk or treaters and families. We then set up a haunted house at our house, since we have a pretty creepy backyard, and that way we draw all the neighborhood. And usually on Halloween night we have a cookout for our neighbors. That kind of stuff makes it fun.

But my kids, as they got older, always found the best places to trick or treat (i.e. rich neighborhoods) and they would go for hours at night to pick up the best candy, then come back to man the haunted house with their friends. Good times for sure.
 
We do both. I don't think kidnappers are much of a concern, though. How many little kids trick or treat alone? I always see parents on the sidewalk waiting for their children. And I rarely see a lone trick-or-treater.

But yeah, I understand some may live in neighborhoods where you wouldn't want your kids to go trick or treating. I'm an old geezer now and remember the scare back in the 70's when lunatics would put pieces of glass and razor blades into candy. And that was happening even in the best of neighborhoods. There were a few years my parents only let us go up to the houses of people we knew. Tainted candy could still be a threat at some point. In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't really happened yet. There are so many crazies out there who could do it.
 
Stifle Tower said:
We do both. I don't think kidnappers are much of a concern, though. How many little kids trick or treat alone? I always see parents on the sidewalk waiting for their children. And I rarely see a lone trick-or-treater.

But yeah, I understand some may live in neighborhoods where you wouldn't want your kids to go trick or treating. I'm an old geezer now and remember the scare back in the 70's when lunatics would put pieces of glass and razor blades into candy. And that was happening even in the best of neighborhoods. There were a few years my parents only let us go up to the houses of people we knew. Tainted candy could still be a threat at some point. In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't really happened yet. There are so many crazies out there who could do it.
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Even when there is a lone trick or treater there are usually several sets of parents within eye sight of that lone trick or treater.

I don't know about ya'll but if I see something suspicious going down with a child I am getting involved why my wife calls the police. I'd hope I am not the only one that way.

I am no more concerened about kidnappers on halloween then I am at any other time of the year.
 
I think (hope) the kidnapping remark was made tongue in check as a reflection of the current fear culture we live in.
 
Can you really even trick or treat though if your area, or the area you typically go trick or treating in, is big into trunk or treat? It seems like something you would have to adopt just to be able to have your kids participating in anything at all because all the candy would be dished out there. I bet there's way more adults now that just go into "silent mode" and don't answer their doors now past 7:30 or whenever they get home from the trunk or treat. In some neighborhoods I'm sure the best you can do trick or treating these days is gathering the fallen apples on the sidewalks along the route.
 
I worry about safety a bit but I try not to let it destroy the fun. I would never put my kids in a safety vest but I load them up with glow bracelets. I hate the trunk or treat thing but I walk with my kids. At what age do most people let their kids go T or T on their own?

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heyhey said:
I worry about safety a bit but I try not to let it destroy the fun. I would never put my kids in a safety vest but I load them up with glow bracelets. I hate the trunk or treat thing but I walk with my kids. At what age do most people let their kids go T or T on their own?

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My oldest is 12 and I am going to let her have some freedom this year. She will be with a group of friends and not off in soem empty neighborhood. She will be in busy ones with lots of parents and kids.
 
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