OT trick or treat OT

[Plymouthy Adams]

yes today I would be arrested and convicted as a home grown terrorist...but have any of you

soaped windows

put cars on blocks

put cars on front porches

the old flaming bag of pooh

greased doorknobs

busted pumpkins

knocked over fodder shocks

put yard furniture high in the tree

blocked the road

push over an outhouse

and still get home by 10PM

[Don Coatney]

Whose pooh?

[Plymouthy Adams]

only you Don..only you..I think this would be the question of the stomper..! I can honestly say by way of experience that the fun and games gets about a 2 minute recess after a 12 guage shotgun appears from out of the tree limbs while in the process of lifting a 10 foot bench over a fence..we cleared the fence, dashed across the road...back across the field of pumpkins and downed fodder shocks and split the creek wide open in our getaway..well three out of four of us did..we never saw Mary again till much later that night when back at home..Halloween was over for her..she went straight home for it was her head the shotgun was pointed..

[Oldguy48]

Yes to a few of those activities. Seemed like great fun at the time, but would really bring out the worst in me if someone did that to me now. I guess I must be losing my sense of humor as I get older.

[50 Deluxe]

I'll never forget when we dressed a straw man up with pants shirt and a hat, we put him in the middle of the road. a large blue car came by and ran over our poor scarecrow; straw and hat flying everywhere, the driver did not stop at the time. We do not know if he ever returned because we RAN as fast as we could and spent the rest of Halloween hidden in our homes.

[Plymouthy Adams]

it is the memories of being young that make me more alert as I am older...

the following month we had moved to another state..many years later, after graduating from high school I saw one of property owners and apologized for my part in destroying the pumpkins and fodder shocks..he snickered as he told me sat for the longest time in the barn loft watching to see who would be first to hit the field..he laughed as he described the manner and direction we entered the field..were were his entertainment for the night..he said if he gave us kids pumpkins to smash and fodder shocks to knock over..we would be doing less time for us to vandal the neighbors..and by the way..it takes a lot to knock over a well make fodder shock..

Edited October 30, 2010 by Tim Adams

[Dennis Hemingway]

I'll never forget when we dressed a straw man up with pants shirt and a hat, we put him in the middle of the road. a large blue car came by and ran over our poor scarecrow; straw and hat flying everywhere, the driver did not stop at the time. We do not know if he ever returned because we RAN as fast as we could and spent the rest of Halloween hidden in our homes.

We just had 2 people arrested for something like that but they used a mannequin.

Dennis

http://www.desertdispatch.com/articles/prank-9567-arrested-barstow.html

[greg g]

Haven't seen Fodder shocks for years. Mechanical corn harvesters lent to there disappearence around here in the mid 50's.

My grand father used to put 3/4 acre in popcorn. the harvesting process called for shocking the stalks with the ears on about 6 to 8 in a bundle. Cutting was done by hand with a corn knive. similar to a sickle but witha longer handle and straight blade. Then after they dried the shocks would be forked onto a wagon annd hauled to the barn. Where the ears were pulled and stored in wire bins to hang from the rafters to dry further. The stalks were burned in a small stove to heat the work space in the barn.

then we used one of these to seperate the kernals from the ears, ears were used for stove fuel also.

The Pop corn got sold by the pound at a roadside stand.

[P-12 Tommy]

My buddies and I did alot of that stuff back then. Builds character.

Tom

[Frank Elder]

Rotten eggs make pretty good missiles......Then there was this one halloween I used as a means to an end.

I was in 7th grade and I had saved my money from snow shoveling to buy a brand new bat, ball, and glove. When the snow dissapeared we would head for the park and play ball, so that spring I was showing off my swag and a bully I'll call Pete promptly absconded with my baseball and wrote his full name on it and claimed my property as his own!

I waited patiently all summer to steal it back but I wasn't allowed anywhere near Pete's games....he kept a pretty close eye on me.:mad:Then in september he walked up to me and dropped my ball on the ground and said he didn't need it anymore......torn, dirty, split seam it was a mess.

BUT THE NAME WAS STILL THERE AND YOU COULD READ IT!

So I waited another month and a half and on halloween nite brother Alan and I had saved some rotten eggs and pelted the high school principal's house and car, Pete was just entering high school, and I threw the baseball through one of the living room windows and we beat feet!

Needless to say Pete got the blame, paid for the damages, took his punishment, and had an extremely miserable 4 years in high school due to the fact the principal hated his guts and blamed everything that happened on him.

That is my favorite halloween story.

[BobT-47P15]

We did some of those things also.

I don't know if anyone actually put the burning paper bag of

cow patties on our High School principal's doorstep or not, but

it was at least talked about as something to do.

Never did do the outhouse tipping, but that was also mentioned

by others.

One year, an older fellow said they did take a cow up a flight of

steps and leave it in the Principal's office. He pointed out that

the thing is......a cow can go up steps ok, but does not like to

go down steps. Never did hear how they got the cow out.

[Plymouthy Adams]

one steak at time would be my guess...

[greg g]

Skunk in a mailbox!!!

[Rodney Bullock]

You guy's are very mischevious, I spent Holloween dating chicks and eating candy that the little ones bought in. Funny back then kids in our area did not like chocolate they liked hard candy. I never knocked nothing over or did any kind of bad thing like that:D I was too afraid. The parents in my area did not have alot of tolerance for bad behavor. They would bake stuff and had lots of pourch parties. I really liked that, lots of music.

[oldodge41]

Yeah as a youngster it was fun to do some of that stuff and as a young adult it was fun to try to catch those that were doing it too. No-one does too much tricking around here anymore. Seems that vandalism has replaced trick or treat and goes year round.