Los Angeles has even made a tradition of banning 'silly string' for one night only.
Big government bureaucrats have taken it upon themselves to tell kids when they are too old to go trick-or-treating on Halloween because they say parents have dropped the ball.
Mayor Mark Eckert of Belleville, Ill., explains that his father knew when he was “too big” to wear a costume and go door-to-door collecting candy. Today, he says teenagers need to be taught the same lesson.
“When I was a kid my father said to me, ‘You’re too big to be going trick-or-treating. You’re done,’” Eckert said. “When that doesn’t happen, then that’s reason for the city governments to intervene.”
No word on whether Eckert believes it should be government’s responsibility or that of parents to give kids the talk about Santa Claus.
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BAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAH! Too old to go trick or treating? Please. What would the most active parts of town be like if adults who lived and worked there couldn’t dress up in fancy/creative costumes and visit each other for free donuts, liqueur, and treats?
By no means are adults and over, obligated to be the grumpy, hands-in-pockets, bored-of-life, shirt-tucked-in, balding newspaper-reading old curmudgeons Eckert presents himself to be in statements.
Sorry Mayor Eckert, but you were abused while you were growing up. Fact is, you’re never done having fun until you’re dead, and even then that’s only because we don’t know what happens after.
We are never too old to trick or treat. That’s like telling me I am too old to eat candy…Like hell I am!! Just for that…I am going trick or treating!!
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Good grief! He’s not saying that anyone is too old for Halloween parties or dressing up! But seriously, there comes a time when you’re too old to knock on strangers’ doors and expect them to open them for you and give you something.
Agreed, Linda!
I had a group of kids who had just graduated highschool knock on my door. They had brought a little brother with them, but all expected candy! I was kind of offended – they seemed to be taking advantage.
Yes, there comes a time where you are too old to trick-or-treat. And if the government has to get involved to make this known, it might be a poor reflection of what the holiday has become.
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How ridiculous! I can’t believe that they don’t have better things to do than worry about whether a 14 year old has put on costume and knocked on a neighbors door in order to get a snickers bar. No wonder the world is a mess!
wow, health & safety gone to far…
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I am curious what the reasoning is as to why a teen is deemed too old to trick or treat. Why would only the young want free candy? I have never understood that judgement. I will admit that when I pass out candy, I prefer to see the little ones, but I think it is fun when the teens get into it. My problem is the half-assed attempts at costuming for the sole purpose of getting free candy. I also despise the kids from a neighboring country being trucked in by the van load to get free candy in our neighborhoods. Lastly, it seems to me that some people go to ridiculous lengths for free candy. Seems it would be cheaper to just go buy a couple of bags at the store rather than put some half-assed mask on (yes, many of them just come in their regular clothes and some idiotic mask) and drive around for 4 hours wasting gas for just some crappy candy. At any rate, I wish more people would have fun with it…people of all ages, by the way. I look forward to seeing the ones who do. Thanks for sharing this article. The government is getting carried away.
12 is the cut off? Really? so silly…
Treat or Treating is meant to be fun and should not have an age limit. That is just plain silly.
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Next year they will set the min. age for ToT…don’t want those babies to get candy, MOMS might eat eat it!
halloween was orginally for adults and it was parties this trick or treat shit started by the candy compaines. halloween is for adults not kids anyhow. everything is for kids now. now they are making new years eve for kids. what the hell we get no holidays at all.
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Redonkulous! If you want to stop older kids from trick or treating, set a curfew. When you give out candy, make the older kids do a trick for a treat. If they don’t do the trick, they don’t get the treat. Trust me, they’ll do it! Halloween is for all ages, you just need to know how to work the system. Only when cities begin to enforce a dress code will I accept limiting the age of Halloween trick or treaters.
Okay, banning Silly String I can understand, since it does a lot of damage to car paint jobs, but setting an age limit to Trick-or-Treating?
Look, if people have a problem with teens Trick-or-Treating, here’s how you handle it – DON’T GIVE TEENS ANY CANDY. Otherwise, who cares? At least they are out getting candy and not destroying property or drinking under-age. There’s no need to waste money passing stupid laws.
The government shouldn’t be in everything, people should be allowed to just use common sense.
Crazy. We generally turn out the lights by 8:00 or 8:30. That eliminates the hulking guys with five o’clock shadow and paper bags over their heads. I always feel sort of silly looking up and handing them a Fun Size candy bar. But if they want to join the crowds earlier, they get the same treatment as everyone else.
Halloween is too much fun for just the little ones to enjoy. When my sisters and I turned around 13 and 14, we figured we were probably too old for Halloween. So we didn’t go that year. Next year, we really missed it because all my younger sisters and brothers were still going . So us older ones decided we wanted back in, and we dressed as hobos and tried to scrunch down when we knocked on doors so the people would think we were younger than we were. We agreed to try and sound as young as we could when we would sing “trick or treeeat…!” Most everyone was okay with it. I think there was only one mean old grouch that said, “Aren’t you kids a little old to be trick or treating?” We said, “No!” and ran off laughing our heads off. What fun we had that night!
My kids are too old for that, being older teenagers. But we still enjoy Halloween by attending a nearby neighborhood’s celebration that brings all kinds of people out to see the magnificent sites of the season. And I can’t wait for Sunday night to get here so we can go again this year! And, believe me, there are plenty of adults there–even some without kids!
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Very silly to set an age limit on trick or treating. And the silly string ban should either be an all the time ban or never banned. To ban it for only one day is silly.
I didn’t need my parents to tell me… shouldn’t be their roll, and should NEVER be the government’s!
I know I let my oldest go longer than he should have – maybe. Then he would help out at his girlfriend’s family’s haunted house. Maybe it is simply a matter of finding a different way to celebrate. Oh, I will ask the older ones if they are too old with what I hope is a twinkle of mischief in my eye.
This Mayor Mark Eckert guy is an idiot. I can understand the silly string, but then again, I always enjoyed silly string and I never used it abusively.
It’s illegal to vandalize property, right? That should be enough.
Is it illegal to abuse silly string on the 30th, or 29th, or how about January? Of course it is, this mayor is an idiot and is wasting money, and at the same time is abusing his position.
Before we know it, the United States will be a totalitarian government.
Good work, idiots. *shrugs*
Arghh when I was in 7th grade the woman answering the door told I was too old to go trick-or-treating!!…7th grade!!……arghhhhhhh…..let kids be kids, pleaseeeeeeeeeeee!
Really??!!?!?!!!!!!! Wow! What a buzz-kill!
Mayor Mark “stick-up-his-ass” Eckert – must have his eye on the Dictat…umm…Presidency.
As for L.A. – it doesn’t say anything about eggs and setting poop on fire does it?
Wow, I thought America was Free! Amazing! Poor kids to be growing up in THIS America! They are not even allowed to play touch football as they may hurt each other or tag! I can understand the silly string if it hurts car paint, then get rid of it, or re make it chemically so it is not dangerous ALL year long, not just one day of the year! I thought LA was OPEN minded, NOT!! Huh?! One more freedom to be taken away, how can one man make a mandate for an age line on Trick or Treating?! God save us! November 2nd can’t get here soon enough, VOTE THEM OUT!!!
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That’s a real sign? Really? I wonder how much money they spent on making and posting the signs. Perhaps that money could’ve been used for, I don’t know, education or safety services? Naw…that would make too much sense.
As for the curfew, I’d like to see the statistics I was amused that the subtitle for the article was “Laws to curb vandalism, mischief.” Really? Because excluding teens from the standard trick-or-treating is sure to channel their energies into something wholesome…
I think people are probably missing the point… some of it is most likely a safety issue, as older teens (in costumes making it hard to recognize them), not ALL of them, but some of them have a tendency to be out only to cause problems (vandalism, stealing candy from the children old enough to not be supervised by their parents but not old enough to defend themselves). Then there’s the teenagers that just put on their sports outfit and walk around for free candy (no effort put in there). If anything, the older kids should be the ones out trying to collect for UNICEF or something (they have that in the states too don’t they?). Though it reads like the mayor is a jerk, arbitrarily saying when kids can go out, I’m guessing there’s more to the story than the one line quote.
That said, sure teens and adults should get dressed up and enjoy Halloween. When you’re 19 (or 21 depending on the state I guess), you can go to the bar, or have a Halloween themed house party. Teenagers, well I’m sure they don’t need to be told how to hold parties… but yeah, leave the door to door trick or treating to the kids, there’s really no reason for a 14 – 15 year old to be still out there.
If the kids are too old to go trick-or-treating don’t the people at the houses just refuse to give them candy? That’s what used to happen in my town. (And I think my dad still does it.)
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I quit trick or treating probably 6th or 7th grade. I’m not sure why, it just wasn’t fun anymore. Other interests were simply more exciting. I don’t see too many teenagers “trick or treating” – I see them forgetting the “treat” all together, and just going for the “trick” – no costume required. But then one gets old enough to drink, and the bars are usually quite fun on that night.
BTW, I have nothing against communities making trick or treat rules. Some people just don’t like to be bothered, and don’t want to put up with it for longer than they have to. When I was living in Utah, halloween fell on a Sunday. Unbeknownst to me, the LDS kids went trick or treating the night before. When the kids showed up at my door on the 30th, I yelled at them. You see, my 30th birthday was on the 31st, and I was not in the mood for someone jumping the gun on that one :). But I got kids knocking on my door for two nights – the LDS kids on saturday, and the non-LDS on sunday. That’s just a bit much.
You would hate Phoenix. It was COMPLETELY ILLEGAL for anyone to go trick or treating when I lived there. I couldn’t believe it, so I got dressed up and went door to door. People threatened to call the cops.
This is absolutely hilarious… I can just see it, one lone trick or treater walking down the street, a couple huddling in their house , peeking out the window, the woman on the phone – “Yes, that’s right officer… he’s trick or treating!” the man praying…
BAHAHA
I have gone trick or treating almost every year, and I’m twenty. I like dressing up. Last year I took my little cousin out – she was 11 – and I was told by almost every house that I was too old to be trick or treating. I don’t look my age, either, most people think I’m about sixteen. I don’t get it! There should be no age limit, if you get into the whole spirit of the holiday (dressing up, I mean) then it shouldn’t matter.
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it used to be that as shon as you were out of grade school you stopped and you were ony allowed to escort younger kids after that, but no acceptcandy. I can see why the mayor wishes to do so, because teenagers are grabby and greedy and halloween candy is pricey. let them get a job mowing lawns.
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I will Trick or Treat until they pry the plastic pumpkin candy collector from my cold, dead (zombie green) hand!
Too sad… a world ful of bitter ppl :(
“Too big to be trick or treating?” Don’t tell that to the 12 year olds that had sudden growth spurts. Why not just focus on other important rules of Halloween; like not going out alone, going to one of the many “safe Halloween” events planned at schools or convention centers, or staying away from houses with their outside lights off. I’ve left my outside light off many times on Halloween but people still knock.
I agree there’s no need to get the gov’t involved. But I was really sick of the teens from outside my neighborhood who would show up at 10pm – long after the little ones had stopped coming. No costumes, often no bags, just hands out…and trust me, these guys were twice my size. A little scary. And the year I was out of candy…they proceeded to destroy all of my Halloween decorations. The next morning the street was littered with the remains of my carefully carved pumpkins. I moved shortly after – being too close to an entitlement neighborhood makes gentrification not worth the effort. I never mind giving to the polite teens in my current neighborhood – not that THEY would ask – they are usually just escorting siblings.
SO SICK OF THE BIG GOVERNMENT TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!!!
Gah.
What you have described is just ludicrous.
take care!
jane
My 50+ year old neighbor still dresses up and goes trick or treating with his high school and college age kids. I don’t care, I laugh and save a few special large candy bars for them. This family is a bit goofy, but they are good people. Life is too short to worry too much about this.
This is ridiculous! Just another example of too much government intervention. Ugh!
oh my gosh, i can’t even believe this. what has society come to. I can’t believe they have actually banned silly string! wow.
great post, keep up the great work.
That is crazy!!! You are never to old to have fun. And to me Halloween is just a time to be a kid and enjoy yourself while you can.
How stupid. Just the typical stereotype against teenagers. What’s next, I fear to ask?
have you priced halloween candy? thats one good reason not to give it out to teens who could be working.
LOL!! I once saw a van full of senior citizens trick-or-treating. It was probably the renegade diabetic crowd.
Lol that’s awesome.
What an absurd move by this local yokel mayor. Yet another move by government telling us how we should live our lives. I am 57-years-old and still dress up for Halloween as a pyrat! Fact of the matter is, I enjoy being a pyrat from the Golden Age of Pyracy. Fact of the matter is that I do Living History presentations for kids and adults of all ages as a pyrat or an American Civil War soldier. It’s what keeps me young and allows me to teach others about history!
The parameters of trick-or-treating is a cultural one dictated by your local community. Some areas you’ll never see anyone outside of elementary school age roaming the streets for candy, and yet other communities will have college kids in the mix.
I think where the line should be drawn is when anyone, kids or young adults, stop showing respect to their neighbors. If they can’t find the time to dress-up, say “trick-or-treat” when the door is opened, and say “thank-you” when the candy bribe is handed over; then they need to stay out of the streets and watch slasher movies at home.
When we moved to the northeastern part of the US I too was appalled when older teenagers banged on our door asking for candy. These were teenagers from outside of the area, driven by the minivanload by their parents to an active trick-or-treating location. They didn’t wear costumes of any kind. When the doors opened they just thrust out their pillow cases. No “trick-or-treat” passed their lips. They just wanted you to drop candy into their pillow cases that were already heavy with guilt/fear candy from other houses.
Man, were they a surely bunch. Never a smile from them. Thankfully, after three years after living up here they stopped coming around on Ol’ Hallows Eve.
We still get older teenagers trick-or-treating in the area, but they wear costumes, they hit the street only after the neighborhood kids have had their fun, and they smile and say thank-you when they get their candy. With this bunch, I have no problem and see no reason to regulate them.
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Glad to see our politicians are spending their time on the big issues. :-P I just told my 14-year-old sister my feelings: if you put time and effort into your costume, you’re never too old to go trick-or-treating!
Wow… Don’t we have, like, actual problems to solve? You know, theft, drug traffic, joblessness?
I do think there’s a point where you get too old to trick or treat… But I don’t think you’re ever too old to stop dressing up, passing out candy, having a party…
I’m almost 16, dressing up as The Lady of Shalott this year, and building a cardboard boat to sit in whilst I pass out candy. Halloween was always my favorite holiday!
I would be curious to know what the actual cut off age is. I actually enjoyed Halloween a lot more as a teenager than I did as a kid, and no it wasn’t just because I wanted an excuse to get free candy. As a child I was shy and found trick or treating embarrassing. As a teenager, I found it a really fun thing to do with friends and I enjoyed interacting with some of the neat people who would answer the door. That being said, I stopped trick or treating in high school. It does reach a point where you just have to stop, and if you’re really into Halloween find other ways to enjoy the holiday.
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why should only little kids get to trick or treat!?
Wow, seriously? Who called the fun police? You’re never too old for trick or treating.
Seriously?! No one’s ever too old to go trick-or-treating!
What a sad, sad man. I can’t read his statement without seeing a little boy with a sheet over his head being yelled at by his father for being a namby-pamby who’s too old to join the other kids trick-or-treating.
Someone get that man same therapy.
For those asking for candy, as long as they are willing to get into the spirit of the holiday, why would age be a factor? For those handing it out, it’s a shame when there are restrictions such as being young and cute put on one’s generosity? It seems as if should all be simpler and easier than this. Certainly, it should all be done in fun!
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Nobody is too old for trick or treating, although some may think they are too “cool” for trick or treating!
I remember going when I was 14 with my friends for the first time (without parents), it was the best time ever! The cut off can’t be at 12.. that’s so depressing.
I would be pissed if someone told me I can’t go trick or treating anymore, not that I do, but I can do what I want, being that I am 27 and all. But, the government should have no say in who can go out and who cannot.
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NEVER TOO OLD :-P
I can’t believe that so many people do not have a life of their own to attend
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Gee, I guess that I better tell all the adults in the office that there’s no point to dress up and trick or treat within the office then.
Seriously.
Even this liberal has to say, back off government.
Haha-I don’t think the government needs to get involved-the good children are doing it for them. My friends and I tried to go trick or treating at age 15 and got mocked by some little elementary schoolers!
A mandatory cut off age is pointless. It’s not going to stop people. If anything, it will just make them want to do it even more.
As for teens trick or treating, if you’re old enough to have a job; then you can buy your own candy.
I wouldn’t exactly call the mayor of Belleville–population 40,000–”big government.” Local city politics are generally less partisan and more in touch with local concerns, and according to your WaPo article, residents were genuinely scared. I can’t believe there wasn’t a better option than passing a law, but if the mayor was responding to public sentiment and acting out the will of the people, well, that’s his job.
Besides, I highly doubt the cops will be checking IDs–the law seems more like a behavioral suggestion than something they intend to severely enforce.
I agree.
Good Lord! This is ABSURD! Sure, I felt too old when I was 13 (even though I was very young looking for my age) but my roommate’s son went last year when he was 16! So what?! If he doesn’t feel silly doing it, then why should anybody tell him he can’t?
I don’t know about this… the last time I checked teenagers were kids.
I say if you want to dress up and go trick or treating then go for it. The only time I disagree is if someone older shows up at my door and they have no costume. No costume, no candy!!
I think it’s ridiculous. The whole point is to buy some candy and give it away to the people who ring your doorbell. Why are people so uptight on who they pass the candy to? I mean really? Does it matter?
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It’s great to read the banter and the various points of view.
Where I live the homes are close together and the street is well lit. Kids of ALL ages get trucked in to the neighbourhood. I love to see the costumes and kids having fun. I turn off my porch light after I’ve treated about 300 kids. All the cute little ones are home with their parents by then and the big ones….well a lot of them come by more than once and many are not wearing anything remotely wearing a costume and it’s just a candy grab rather than being in the spirit of Hallowe’en.
Although cities shouldn’t set trick-or-treat age limits, I can see the point. I mean, it is a bit ridiculous/pathetic for teenagers (I’m 17, btw) to go out trick-or-treating. There’s more interesting things to do than knock on stranger’s doors for candy corn…And, hello, loads of teenagers out = loads of vandalism. Not that a mandatory curfew will curtail all Halloween-related vandalism, but it’d help. Anyway: grow up, y’all.
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I think cities determining trick-or-treat ages is beyond stupid.
1. It’s way to controlling for my tastes. Over something that harms no one.
2. If you think someone is too old for trick-or-treating and you are such a greedy person that giving them a piece of candy really matters to you, then say so and don’t give candy. (Silly if you ask me, but… if it matters to you, then have the backbone to say it on your own.)
3. I think this is unfair. We had a local mentally challenged man who had a mental age far younger than his actual age. Everyone knew him and his parents. He trick-or-treated in our area well into his mid-twenties. He always dressed, and everyone always gave him candy. He really enjoyed it, and what in the world did it hurt? I can’t imagine a city trying to tell him he couldn’t do that because of his age. How sad. :(
Ah yes, more proof that children do not have any rights in America. You have to sit up, shut up, don’t complain, no kicking, no smart mouthing, no poking, no fidgeting, no laughing, no smiling, no frowning, no blowing bubbles in your milk, and now no having fun at all. Then they wonder why kids become rebellious teens that go out and destroy parks, monuments, and local businesses. Maybe it’s because they’re tired of all the restrictions on how they can control their own lives? Nah, couldn’t be it at all…
Yeah, but trick-or-treating is basically begging, saying “give me stuff or I’ll egg your house”. It’s not exactly nice! You could stay at home — dress up if you want, sure, go ahead — and have a party where everyone shared sweets, instead of going out and – for what of a better word – terrorising the neighbourhood!
THIS IS NONE OF THE GOVERNMENTS BUSINESS!
It’s a Free Country and an aged person has the right to go trick or treating!
I would protest to this.
Oops. wrote Governments instead of Mayor.
There are too many problems in today’s world to worry about what age to end Trick or Treating! Doesn’t this person have anything better to do? Every kids knows when it is time to end.
Many people NEVER give it up completely. They graduate from going from house to house to Halloween parties.
I’d rather have my teenager overload on Halloween candy instead of having his stomach pumped due to alcohol poisoning from some unmonitored Halloween party!
Okay, I usually don’t like Halloween but this is going too far.
I bet he’s going to say not to have birthday parties either? Sheesh!
And what’s with the 1,000 fine?
So if I am 12 and want to trick-or-treat I have to get a ‘government slip’ to do it?
I don’t think so!
K
I agree that the government shouldn’t get involved. For safety issues have more police out to curb illegal mischief and vandalism.
As far as silly string – why not just fine vandalism in general?
The high schools and cities should have teen events that night to keep kids out of trouble.
People are afraid to refuse candy to the adult-sized kids. The issue isn’t that older folk are dressing up and having fun. Some neighborhoods are having parties and the adults are having more fun than the kids. If the adults were out having fun with their kids, this wouldn’t even be an issue. The issue is when the “fun” turns illegal or to bullying younger kids and adults or worse.
It’s a shame that there isn’t a stronger family unit in America where parents provide an alternative to trick or treat to their older children and their children’s friends.
Somewhere along the way, we decided to call 13-19 year-olds “teenagers” and handed them a license on a silver platter (along with way too much material goods) to act like irresponsible delinquents instead of allowing them to grow up gracefully and accept responsibility gradually to help them to become well-adjusted young adults, capable of having fun without being a menace and burden to society. Instead, most are burdened with all the privileges and none of the responsibility. No wonder some people never grow up!
I understand your perspective on this issue to an extent, but I do think your comments show a bit of unintentional bias… many teenagers who go trick or treating are having innocent fun and are not bullying or intimidating anybody. The teens who are causing issues are also likely people who were bullying people as kids too… this is what I don’t like about stereotyping teenagers, yes, most teens go through a stage of moodiness and maybe even a bit of rebellion but overall nasty teenagers are people who were just always nasty in my opinion. Your statements seem to imply that the problem is in allowing young people to trick or treat, and that they need to be provided with alternate activities to “keep {them} out of trouble” … typically it is not the poorly adjusted teens who show up to family friendly activities, there is a pattern, if you get my drift. Teens do no want to feel patronized or regulated, and even well-adjusted teens will resist such things. Laws should be implemented to address people’s conduct, not their age, gender, etc. and other components by which we judge people in society.
How do you enforce this? Short teens can wear masks (I’m in my late twentites and could STILL trick or treat if I had a mask or even a lot of make-up on) and tall children could be asked to go home… and what do you do if you see a teen out trick-or-treating? Call the cops and confiscate her Mars Bars?
The problem is not one of intent but of execution. Agreed that it is not the government’s responsibility to regulate trick-or-treating. But it is the government’s responsibility to maintain public order and safety. In this case, money would be better spent on:
(1) flyers, broadcast ads, and maybe even mailers listing safety tips for parents (including one about getting kids home by a reasonable hour).
(2) letters sent home to parents through public school channels (letters in kids’ knapsacks, letters distributed through public school mailing lists).
In this way, the mayor and cops wouldn’t be ccopting our responsibility as parents but would still be able to maintain order.
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Sure, tell kids when they’re too old to wear costumes and ask for candy. While they’re at it, the government needs to set the legal age after which children are too old to believe in Santa.
RIDICULOUS. Let’s monitor everything! Good grief.
I do see the point in urban areas where you have a problem with teeangers – usually in gangs or big groups, who cause all sorts of mischief (or worse!)
I personally trick-or-treated all the way through college! I never played any tricks, and just enjoyed creating a fun costume and running around reliving my childhood with my friends. Teenagers can certainly be louder and more obnoxious, but I now welcome them all at my door every year. It never would have occurred to me as a teen that I was seen as mooching — if you’re that cheap, don’t give out candy at all! My cousin is in her 40s and still sits on Santa’s lap every year to maintain the spirit of Christmas — do we need to regulate that too?
this post is very good, congratulations
He must not have any friends. Or maybe he doesn’t have anything better to do either.
I am 50 and I want my candy!!! Trick or treat!!
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That would be the government restricting peaceful (and fun) religious expression. Not happening.
If I feel like getting dressed up in fairy wings, ask strangers for candy, and reminisce about the good ‘ol days then by God thats just what I’ll do
It is none of the governments business!! We are the parents & it is none of the Governments business!! Our kids are ‘young people’ – once, if they want to enjoy a little extra fun- fine. I love young & old to come trick or treating at our place. I love them all. Teens need lots of love & nuturing too; if they want a little candy -fine. (It is much better to see all the teens having some good clean fun on Halloween, then doing other things that could be not so fun or could be somewhat damaging.) Let them have fun & enjoy life! The Government is off base once again. Get a life -Government & quit sticking your nose where it does not belong! Government you have lost a compassionate heart,you dont look at the big picture of loving young people This is the parents business & Americans that love kids & teens business not your business ever! You need to quit sticking your nose where it does not belong!
Government -you have much more important duties to work on to do right & better, than bothering the parents & our kids. [Government you need parents & Americans governing & monitoring you! Not the other way around!] Go mind your own business and – butt out!
It is none of the governments business!! We are the parents & it is none of the Governments business!! Our kids are ‘young people’ – once, if they want to enjoy a little extra fun- fine. I love young & old to come trick or treating at our place. I love them all. Teens need lots of love & nuturing too; if they want a little candy -fine. (It is much better to see all the teens having some good clean fun on Halloween, then doing other things that could be not so fun or could be somewhat damaging.) Let them have fun & enjoy life! The Government is off base once again. Get a life -Government & quit sticking your nose where it does not belong! Government you have lost a compassionate heart,you dont look at the big picture of loving young people This is the parents business & Americans that love kids & teens business not your business ever! You need to quit sticking your nose where it does not belong!
Government -you have much more important duties to work on to do right & better, than bothering the parents & our kids. [Government you need parents & Americans governing & monitoring you! Not the other way around!] Go mind your own business and – butt out!
YOUR ENVER TO OLD FOR TRICK OR TREATING . SOME CALL IT TRICK OR DRINKING WHEN THEY VISIT THE LOCAL BARS IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS. I DONT DRINK BUT I STILL THINK IT IS FUNNY TO DRESS UP FOR HALLOWEEN. YES IM A 43 YEAR OLD HALLOWEEN ADDICT AND DAMN PROUD OF IT TO. I WENT TRICK OR TREATING AT AGE 18 AND 19 TO GET CANDY TO SEND TO MY FIANCE AND MY OLDEST BROTHER WHO WHERE BOTH IN THE USA SERVICES. I EXPLAINED WHEN I WOULD GET THE ARENT U TO OLD QUESTIONS THAT I WAS SIMPLY TRICK OR TREATING FOR MY BROTHER AND MY FIANCE THAT WERE IN THE SERVICE AND U KNOW WHAT I GOT???? I GOT DOUBLE THE CANDY I WAS EXPECTING AND PROMPTLY SENT OFF 4 SHOE BOXES FULL OF CANDY 2 TO EACH, MY BROTHER AND MY FIANCE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE GUYS IN THEIR PLATOON THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT THAT ONE HAD A SISTER AND HER FRIENDS THAT WOULD GO OUT AND DO SUCH A THING AND THE OTHER THOUGHT HIS FIANCE MUST REALLY LOVED HIM ALOT TO PUT HERSELF INTO SUCH A PERDICAMENT AS TO FACE THE GROUCHY OLD PEOPLE AND THE JERKS SAYING YOUR TO OLD FOR IT.
I SAY ILL TRICK OR TRERAT FOR THE USA TROOPS TILL I CANT WALK ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!! THEN ILL SHOVE MY BUTT DOWN THE STREET IN A WHEELCHAIR IF I HAVE TO . JUST TO MAKE THOSE GUYS ALL SMILE THAT PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY BACK HOME GAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW WE SUPPORT THEM AND CARE ABOUT THEM.
SO ALL YOU GROUCHY PEOPLE WHO SAY 12 SHOULD BE THE LIMIT OR WHAT EVER .. GO PRAY FOR MY PAGAN SOUL!
I WAS BORN CATHOLIC AND I WILL DIE A CATHOILIC PAGAN TRICK OR TREATER!
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What? Too old? I’m 41 and I’ve only just STARTED trick or treating.
No-one’s telling me I’m too old for anything and if they think they’re going to prohibit silly string they can think again.
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My husband (28) and I (25) took our 4yo and 2yo trick or treating, and we dressed up ourselves just for fun. We had the kids go to the door and get candy, as we stood back (with no bags) and were told plenty of times that we should have brought our own bags! LOL
Sorry for the crappy grammar. My brain is fried after writing a grammatically correct 1,477 word college paper. =)
So you are to cheap to give candy to teens to old to trick or treat. But then again teens get it and you don’t. No candy, teens now assume the age old assumption of Holloween. If the light is on you give candy, if its off, you get tricked. Read the rules people. My light was off. This ment I got tricked. The three boys came to my garage door to soap my windows I guess that was the plan. Soap in hand they leaned toward my windows and I inside lifted the door. I bet I made three boys pee their pants that night on halloween and many halloween’s since then. Dam halloween is fun even for big people. We need more laws like these three boys wishing for a witch to fly them on her broom to dry their pants. Right!
Each new law costs us tax payers money. Ask for more change if you can really afford it. If you can hire someone. Lots of people are out of work.
$1000.00 dallors for going. Where? Trick or Treating! Be serious!
ok this is bull crap i am 20 and i went trick or treating up until i am 19 and i might go again government you need to keep your nose and business outta other people problems this world messed up and government your not gonna tell me im too old to do this and that if you do you will be sorry cause still in my neighborhood many many kids and teens still trick or treat have fun noone gonna tell me im tooold to trick or treat it none of the governement business so back off government and stop puting your nose in this world and everyone business kids grow up fast if you keep the age limit at 12 years old all the time sooner or later noone gonna be out geting candy halloween will be a ghost town then so bavk off and us adults and teens 13 and over will trick or treat if you like it ornot and now im 20 years old and yes im still gonna dress up and go tricvk or treating rather you like it or not.