Chevy Chase Halloween candy bowl "scandal"

[Anonymous]

This is total kid stuff. Old as Halloween. Relax.

[Anonymous]

We leave candy out because we go to see our grandchildren. Sometimes its all gone, sometimes not.

[Anonymous]

The people who think this is fine are the same ones who justify copying homework. They will be the first ones to freak out if someone gets an edge on them in college admissions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Link?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2016/11/02/greedy-halloween-kids-empty-an-unattended-candy-bowl-and-divide-a-d-c-neighborhood/

are there really 995 comments on this post??

You're surprised? Never forget that there is a certain type who loves to post on new stories.

I think I would have to drop about a dozen hits of acid before I could envision this not happening in the District. Even in the posh, ostensibly safe neighborhoods of Georgetown, Cleveland Park, and the West End, the beat-down brigades were out in force on Halloween night, patrolling for candy, cell phones, purses, and wallets (although perhaps not in that exact order). For those who have not yet graduated into the well-coordinated adolescent beat-down brigades, there is the youth auxiliary, where nonviolent thefts of opportunity (and gluttony) constitute the core curriculum.

[Anonymous]

We left a candy bowl out while taking our two little ones out trick or treating. I wrote up a sign asking people to take one. We got back around 8pm and there was candy left. I'm guessing by that time, most of the trick or treaters were smaller kids accompanied by adults.

Then about 15 minutes after our return, I remembered I forgot to take teh sign down and bring the bowl in, so kids could just ring our doorbell. I open the door to catch someone in the act of dumping the entire bowl into their bag. It was a blonde girl probably late elementary school or early middle school. I told her she should know better than that, but didn't ask for the candy back as we have plenty and no need for our kids to have any more.

If I knew the girl, I would have told her parents as I'd want to know if it were my kid. We do have security cameras so I have it on tape, but didn't feel it necessary to make a major case of this and email our local listserv about this. We're in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We left a candy bowl out while taking our two little ones out trick or treating. I wrote up a sign asking people to take one. We got back around 8pm and there was candy left. I'm guessing by that time, most of the trick or treaters were smaller kids accompanied by adults.

Then about 15 minutes after our return, I remembered I forgot to take teh sign down and bring the bowl in, so kids could just ring our doorbell. I open the door to catch someone in the act of dumping the entire bowl into their bag. It was a blonde girl probably late elementary school or early middle school. I told her she should know better than that, but didn't ask for the candy back as we have plenty and no need for our kids to have any more.

If I knew the girl, I would have told her parents as I'd want to know if it were my kid. We do have security cameras so I have it on tape, but didn't feel it necessary to make a major case of this and email our local listserv about this. We're in Bethesda.

O.k....so her parents aren't going to find out that she did this and if you ever recognize her again you'll remember her as the girl who swiped your candy.

Hopefully, just being caught by you will be enough to deter her in the future.

[Anonymous]

I don't understand why you'd put the bowl out anyway. Halloween is supposed to be about the interaction between trick or treaters and neighbors. Not an opportunity to collect candy in the abstract.

[Anonymous]

OP I disagree with you that this kind of behavior (likely a one-off) turns one into a Brock Turner. To me, all the parents on the Tweens forum who said that 12yo boys have a problem if they cry at school, and boys don't cry, yadda yadda, have a much greater likelihood of growing a BT.

While the kid shouldn't have done that, the biggest problem to me is the adult father who tried to publicly shame him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you'd put the bowl out anyway. Halloween is supposed to be about the interaction between trick or treaters and neighbors. Not an opportunity to collect candy in the abstract.

ITA

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Anonymous wrote:Only idiots leave a whole bowl of candy on their front step. Drunks who are too busy drinking to actually hand out candy. Just turn off you lights for goodness sake.

This is CC, did they hire lawyers yet... that is my favorite part of CC.

Doesn't CC "own" the police department, have they blamed the police for not doing their job.

Oh, CC, I miss living there... not!

FWIW, we left a bowl on our porch for about an hour or so because we were both out trick or treating with our elementary school kids. No one was home, but we wanted to leave candy for the kids who came by while we were out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who think this is fine are the same ones who justify copying homework. They will be the first ones to freak out if someone gets an edge on them in college admissions.

You cannot expect kids to behave as (most) adults would. They are kids. The same people who think their kids wont do this are the ones who think their kids will go off to college and not drink or party.

Should the kids have done this? NO.

Is it worth all the hoopla surrounding it? NO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP I disagree with you that this kind of behavior (likely a one-off) turns one into a Brock Turner. To me, all the parents on the Tweens forum who said that 12yo boys have a problem if they cry at school, and boys don't cry, yadda yadda, have a much greater likelihood of growing a BT.

While the kid shouldn't have done that, the biggest problem to me is the adult father who tried to publicly shame him.

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only idiots leave a whole bowl of candy on their front step. Drunks who are too busy drinking to actually hand out candy. Just turn off you lights for goodness sake.

This is CC, did they hire lawyers yet... that is my favorite part of CC.

Doesn't CC "own" the police department, have they blamed the police for not doing their job.

Oh, CC, I miss living there... not!

FWIW, we left a bowl on our porch for about an hour or so because we were both out trick or treating with our elementary school kids. No one was home, but we wanted to leave candy for the kids who came by while we were out.

So. Nobody cares. Turn off the light, leave one parent home... the kids in your neighborhood don't need 1 more house with candy. If you leave the bowl, go for it, just don't tape record and try to publicly shame kids.

Meanwhile... 4 houses down a bunch of teens stole their parents pot and were doing bong hits and then driving to a friends... oh wait, let's bust the kids with too much candy.

[Anonymous]

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Meanwhile... 4 houses down a bunch of teens stole their parents pot and were doing bong hits and then driving to a friends... oh wait, let's bust the kids with too much candy.

Eh, teenagers are going to smoke and drive. That's just what they do. Why get all worked up about typical teen stuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people who think this is fine are the same ones who justify copying homework. They will be the first ones to freak out if someone gets an edge on them in college admissions.

No one thinks its fine we just think it doesn't deserve this level of dramalama.

If I found out my kid did this I would get on them about it and probably take away a percentage of their candy. But a halloween trick as old as time perpetrated on someone silly enough to leave a bowl of free candy out on their front porch =/= Brock Turner.