The Annual PH how to get rid of Trick or Treaters thread

[jmorgan]

Jader1973 said:

Moonhawk said:

Traditions get modified over time - just look at how much Christmas has changed over the last 200 years. Until Queen Victoria - Christmas trees in the UK were unheard of, same thing with Christmas cards etc.

Does that mean the modern Christmas in the UK isn't really Christmas because it it has been embellished over time?

No.

Point is that the "trick or treat" element is a US development that has spread back to the UK. It didn't originate in the UK.

It has been modified by marketing departments, just like Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter.

Lots of money to be made selling tat every year.

[Scousefella]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Kids love chocolate..

Exactly!!!

Endure the little b@stards at the door for one ear but OMG they won't bother next year!!!!

Buy a big portion of Ferrero Rocher, melt an even bigger portion of Exlax in a pan - open the Rocher, roll in Exlax and re-wrap in the gold foil.

Kids will be sh*tting for Britain all the way down the road and into the night!!!

[phugleigh]

Chase them down the garden path with sharpened axe guttural cry full on rage.
Awkward moment when they run into the road and get clipped by passing speeding skip lorry who wasn't gonna stop and certainly won't now.
Makes their outfit look realistic - you know with missing arm pulsng out blood etc

So best tip them before going back inside and watching some drivel on the telly.
There's a thread on ph for suitable tips.


Love Halloween.

[deeen]

Johnnytheboy said:

This is all awfully complex.

I just go up the pub at nightfall and stay there until bedtime.

Works every year.

+1, just come home, no issues!

[MrBarry123]

LukeR94 said:

Stop being haloween scrooges and get in the spooky spirit!



My suggestion is hide in the bush and pop out when they knock on the door!

fk off.

[carmadgaz]

And this is why I love living just outside of town, I'm about 200yds past the streelights so no-one ever ventures this far

[MrHorsepower]

We haven't had trick or treaters for years, but we get an awful lot of fking Halloween fireworks. What the fk are they all about?

It's a shame people don't make Guys anymore. They require much greater skill, effort and intellect than slapping on a cheap polystyrene mask and grunting for chocolate.

[ChemicalChaos]

Being a student house full of skint blokes who couldnt afford to give away tons of sweets, we've not had anyone at our door all night.....

[Zoobeef]

I've stayed at work for the weekend. Let's see the fkers find me on a military camp.

Have you noticed the only ones that like it are parents. Gives them a peaceful evening while their brats are bugging the rest of us.

[leggly]

If you look angry enough when you open the door, they get the chance to enjoy a fright, AND, learn that demanding sweets with menaces doesn't always end well in these parts. American bks

[SpeckledJim]

Adz The Rat said:

Soov535 said:

The exception being the five 18 year old Cambridge girl students who turned up outside our house last year in their pants!

Soov still sits by the door, hoping one day they will return...

Or stays in bed, hoping one night to have the same dream again.

[Pints]

Zoobeef said:

Have you noticed the only ones that like it are parents. Gives them a peaceful evening while their brats are bugging the rest of us.

I'll thank you for not tarring me (and presumably others) with that brush.
The Half Pints have been told only bad people who take sweets from other people and dress up as nasty things go Trick or Treating.
Hopefully they'll repeat this message to their little friends when they're back at school.

[jmorgan]

No issues. Polite notice again seemed to work, nothing threatening like "Jimmy Saville Fan club meeting tonight"

[Spanglepants]

Put a sign on your door telling them to look through the letterbox for sweets and stick this on the inside-

[dave_s13]

This thread is so skewed from the reality of what is harmless fun enjoyed by young kids is comical. No money is asked for or offered, a few quids worth of sweets change hands and they get to dress up.... There's also no tricks played in reality.

Of course you laced chocolate with laxative etcetera etcetera....

If you don't like it then don't answer the door!

[ali_kat]

By you, maybe

Others experiences are well documented and not at all skewed

[BoRED S2upid]

45 mini bags of sweets still sat in our kitchen not a single call all night.

[jmorgan]

dave_s13 said:

This thread is so skewed from the reality of what is harmless fun enjoyed by young kids is comical. No money is asked for or offered, a few quids worth of sweets change hands and they get to dress up.... There's also no tricks played in reality.

Of course you laced chocolate with laxative etcetera etcetera....

If you don't like it then don't answer the door!

Harmless? Well, most of them probably.

But I just do not want strangers knocking on a door all night. I have no interest in dishing out sweets to kids, you get arrested for that trying it down the park. Previous answering then politely saying no has resulted in a few reprisals. Not answering the door results in the same when they know you are in. This is down to inappropriate behaviour rather than the norm but why should I suffer it? I do not know the family that accompanies them , I have no interest in looking at parents convinced their cherub is the cutest thing on the planet and I really have no interest in getting to know them unless they are rich and giving free hand outs..

The shops have the parents all stitched up.


Now pass me my Curmudgeon Times, I need to see where the next kids balloon party is so I can go and test my new pin.

[dave_s13]

jmorgan said:

Harmless? Well, most of them probably.

But I just do not want strangers knocking on a door all night. I have no interest in dishing out sweets to kids, you get arrested for that trying it down the park. Previous answering then politely saying no has resulted in a few reprisals. Not answering the door results in the same when they know you are in. This is down to inappropriate behaviour rather than the norm but why should I suffer it? I do not know the family that accompanies them , I have no interest in looking at parents convinced their cherub is the cutest thing on the planet and I really have no interest in getting to know them unless they are rich and giving free hand outs..

The shops have the parents all stitched up.


Now pass me my Curmudgeon Times, I need to see where the next kids balloon party is so I canu
go and test my new pin.

It's dead simple though... Don't have any Halloween paraphernalia outside your house, and don't answer the door.

[dave_s13]

ali_kat said:

By you, maybe

Others experiences are well documented and not at all skewed

Where do you live, Dewsbury?

Call the poleece if you're getting harassed by the local chavs.