Re: KIds and Halloween
The stuff we used to do..... Flaming bags of dung, some eggs but limited the eggs to the city patrol cars, lots of toilet paper, acceteline bombs, we also used to take all of the remote controls we could find. walk around town and those with big windows, hide in their bushes and turn the television on real loud all night, or if the owner was up mess with the volume. Stretch peices of bicycle innertubes over peoples exhaust pipes and leave them hang so when they started the car it would sound like a long loud fart until the hose burned off. <br />I caught some kids last week with the falming bags of poo. They were using full size grocery bags, filing fullof cow dung, soaking the bag in oil and throwing some gunpowder in for good emeasure. I told them the idea was to use dog or cat poop that stunk more, and small bags without all the accelerants so the fire would be small enough to stomp out. The next weekend they took my advice but still threw the bags out by the curb. I won't correct them on this mistake.<br />Here in town we set ground rules. We chase them, mess with them and turn them loose. We allow pumkins to be smashed on main street, dumpsters to be moved etc. As long as they leave a fire lane open on streets and don't break anything. This freedom and even playing with them chasing them around all of the kids here have been very well behaved. Last year one window got broke because some out of town people threw a rock. We stopped a few kids and said party over. Within an hour things were cleaned up and everyone was home. <br />We gave them a little freedom, set rules, let them have fun, even joined their fun chasing them, and the destruction was down to zero. The only damage was that one window.
