Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:55
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me how naive some adults and especially older people are when it comes to leaving a large bowl of free candy on their porch. Emptying the bowl is terrible and something all parents hope they raised their kids not to do when tempted. But the fact is, groups of kids (mostly older kids), trick or treating unsupervised by an adult will sometimes behave badly - especially when their is peer pressure from one of the kids to do it. We've seen this play out on our porch camera videos several years. We only leave the bucket out briefly so we can walk our kids around - and 50% of the time its empty when we get back... and the video shows the cuplrits. Sometimes kids we know from down the street even - whose parents we speak with at BBQs and forth of July parties...
It's unfortunate, but a reality, not worth troubling the police over.
"We"? Why doesn't one parent stay home to participate in the ToT ritual. Thats boring, right?
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:53
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:I have never understood why people just leave a bowl of candy sitting outside. Other than I guess they are looking for videos they can post of either people who took a lot or some kid who was very gracious and only took one. Both can go viral.
Trick or treat is about handing out candy and ringing doorbells. If you aren't home, you turn the lights off.
Agree. Nothing is sadder than a street full of unsttended bowls of candy. Its lame AF.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:53
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Never thought about how all the ring doorbells could change Halloween. Imagine the embarrassment if those were your kids.
No, the embarrassing thing was the adults taking candy let alone handfuls of it.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:52
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
We live near some public housing, and around
9 pm the local teens arrive. My DH leaves a bucket of beer for them. They are strangely polite and usually take only one can or toss one to a friend.
9 pm the local teens arrive. My DH leaves a bucket of beer for them. They are strangely polite and usually take only one can or toss one to a friend.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:52
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:My friend is a 911 operator and I guarantee you the entire room of 911 operators heard about this idiot calling on Halloween about stolen candy and LAUGHED.
Ditto carjackings, amirite?
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:49
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
What else can be done?
There no law against this
Of course there is- theft.
Dumba$$. You left a bowl of candy out for people to take. But it’s theft to take more than one??
Are both of your brain cells not firing today?
It IS theft to empty a bowl, but I wouldn't call police over it.
Well the police/laws says it's not. If you feel strongly that it is theft then stay home and physically hand it out to kids.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:46
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
What else can be done?
There no law against this
Of course there is- theft.
Dumba$$. You left a bowl of candy out for people to take. But it’s theft to take more than one??
Are both of your brain cells not firing today?
It IS theft to empty a bowl, but I wouldn't call police over it.
How is this theft? Isn’t the goal for the trick or treaters to empty the bowl?
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:44
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:It's surprising to me how naive some adults and especially older people are when it comes to leaving a large bowl of free candy on their porch. Emptying the bowl is terrible and something all parents hope they raised their kids not to do when tempted. But the fact is, groups of kids (mostly older kids), trick or treating unsupervised by an adult will sometimes behave badly - especially when their is peer pressure from one of the kids to do it. We've seen this play out on our porch camera videos several years. We only leave the bucket out briefly so we can walk our kids around - and 50% of the time its empty when we get back... and the video shows the cuplrits. Sometimes kids we know from down the street even - whose parents we speak with at BBQs and forth of July parties...
It's unfortunate, but a reality, not worth troubling the police over.
+1 To all of this.
The number of people complaining about this on next door is hilarious. It happens every year. Did they really expect everyone to take just one? Even when I sat outside holding the bowl telling kids they can take 2 some little kids crabbed a handful. Really not a big deal.
if you want to police the candy bowl stop being lazy and stick around to hand it out. Or turn the lights off and don't hand out candy .
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:39
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
What else can be done?
There no law against this
Of course there is- theft.
Dumba$$. You left a bowl of candy out for people to take. But it’s theft to take more than one??
Are both of your brain cells not firing today?
It IS theft to empty a bowl, but I wouldn't call police over it.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:30
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
We came back from ToT to find our candy bowl empty. I reviewed the video the next day -- it was never totally dumped into someone's bag. It was groups of kids, typically older, who took a bit more than the "please take two" sign, but no bowl dumping. I guess it restored my faith in humanity, if only for an instant.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:24
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:I have never understood why people just leave a bowl of candy sitting outside. Other than I guess they are looking for videos they can post of either people who took a lot or some kid who was very gracious and only took one. Both can go viral.
Trick or treat is about handing out candy and ringing doorbells. If you aren't home, you turn the lights off.
The pandemic changed Halloween, just like it changed other things. Where before there would be one or two houses with a bowl of candy left out, now it's half the houses.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:21
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
It's surprising to me how naive some adults and especially older people are when it comes to leaving a large bowl of free candy on their porch. Emptying the bowl is terrible and something all parents hope they raised their kids not to do when tempted. But the fact is, groups of kids (mostly older kids), trick or treating unsupervised by an adult will sometimes behave badly - especially when their is peer pressure from one of the kids to do it. We've seen this play out on our porch camera videos several years. We only leave the bucket out briefly so we can walk our kids around - and 50% of the time its empty when we get back... and the video shows the cuplrits. Sometimes kids we know from down the street even - whose parents we speak with at BBQs and forth of July parties...
It's unfortunate, but a reality, not worth troubling the police over.
It's unfortunate, but a reality, not worth troubling the police over.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:20
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
What else can be done?
There no law against this
Of course there is- theft.
Dumba$$. You left a bowl of candy out for people to take. But it’s theft to take more than one??
Are both of your brain cells not firing today?
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:17
Subject: Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:
The internet has made it possible to realize that some people are just very, very stupid.
And dishonest.
Anonymous
11/03/2023 09:15
Subject: Re:Will you call 911 or the police if some kids steals candy?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
What else can be done?
There no law against this
Of course there is- theft.
Please. I would never contact police over Hallowween candy. You just have to realize some kids are not parented well, and they are not internalizing good values.