No Trick or Treaters This Year!

[fightingquaker13]

While I did not indulge in M'lette's full scale craziness, I did go out and buy a plastic pumpkin and a jumbo sized bag of mini-snickers (which I would never consider freezing and eating myself). Its 8:30 EDT and not one, none, zero, zip, nada, costumed tricycle motor has showed up demanding loot. It seems that down our way folks are going to Church and school sponsored "trunk or treat" parties where folks park in the lot, decorate their cars and the kids go car to car with costume contests and the rest. I suppose its a good thing, but it seems a bit sad that we've gotten so paranoid that we don't trust our neighbors to give our kids candy. I mean honestly, the urban legends about razor blades in apples etc are just that. I make no complaints about having a bag of frozen Snickers goodness to myself, but it is kind of sad to step out your door on Halloween night and not see a mob of sugar crazed ankle biters extorting the neighbors.
FQ13 who feels old

[twyacht]

WOW, As a S. FL local, never get chocolate as it melts when its 80 + degrees,...

Wife and I had the critters from 7:00 to 8:45 than ran out of candy.

Sorry you didn't have the crumb crunchers make the rounds.

[TAB]

its not dark here yet, but judging by the number of familys in the area, we will get lots.

[Pathfinder]

While I did not indulge in M'lette's full scale craziness, I did go out and buy a plastic pumpkin and a jumbo sized bag of mini-snickers (which I would never consider freezing and eating myself). Its 8:30 EDT and not one, none, zero, zip, nada, costumed tricycle motor has showed up demanding loot. It seems that down our way folks are going to Church and school sponsored "trunk or treat" parties where folks park in the lot, decorate their cars and the kids go car to car with costume contests and the rest. I suppose its a good thing, but it seems a bit sad that we've gotten so paranoid that we don't trust our neighbors to give our kids candy. I mean honestly, the urban legends about razor blades in apples etc are just that. I make no complaints about having a bag of frozen Snickers goodness to myself, but it is kind of sad to step out your door on Halloween night and not see a mob of sugar crazed ankle biters extorting the neighbors.
FQ13 who feels old

Lots of kids here, candy bucket is down to the good stuff, intentionally hidden at the bottom for good reason - it is the good stuff!!

As for the razor blades, once again you are full of sh|t on that as well. It was real, there were incidents. Sadly, it turned out, that most (not all) were done by the families for publicity, something like a weird Munchhhousen disease. But it was real.

[tombogan03884]

FQ, I know of at least 2 cases in Boston that probably happened before you were born.

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[fightingquaker13]

Then I reckon I date myself as young. I remember when I was 8 or so local ERs volunteering to x-ray the candy for free (Lord knows what a nightmare that must have been, kids+ER on a night when adults go out and get drunk and stupid). Anyway, it was discontinued because there was nothing found. If there were needles in the tootsie rolls or razors in the apples I stand corrected by Path and Tom (I really hate doing that, but so be it).  My understanding was that it was an urban legend. Still, I do dislike the distrust that prevents folks from sending their kids to their neighbors. This strikes me as a warning sign about the dissolution of community solidarity and the horizontal bonds that make up a healthy society.
FQ13 who will eat a frozen snickers bar and look on the bright side

[tombogan03884]

You can trust YOUR neighbors if you want FQ.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091101/ap_on_re_us/us_rapist_s_home_bodies

Coroner: 6 bodies found at home; Ohioan arrested
CLEVELAND – A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.

[Timothy]

Same here, not a goul or soul or ankle bitter (other than my dog) to be seen.

A plethera of goodies for my fat ass, just what I need, another reason to fill the cake hole....

 

[Timothy]

You can trust YOUR neighbors if you want FQ.

Coroner: 6 bodies found at home; Ohioan arrested
CLEVELAND – A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighborhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.

Cleveland is best viewed at about 80 MPH on Route 90 in your riew view mirror...

[fightingquaker13]

Cleveland is best view at about 80 MPH on Route 90 in your riew view mirror...

Having lived in Indiana and thus having to pass through the "Mistake on the Lake" up close and personal on more than one occasion, I can reccomend the view from 30,000 feet at 500 mph.
FQ13 who says screw the Rock and Roll Hall of fame, and if I want comic relief I'd rather watch SNL than a Browns game