submitter: old safeguards against egg-throwing such as not giving out pennies to trick-or-treaters are no longer successful

Thanks for the heads up I will hand out Raisins instead.

But don't all of you Americans carry firearms? Wouldn't return fire discourage this scourge?

Wander00: But don't all of you Americans carry firearms? Wouldn't return fire discourage this scourge?

Finally, someone gets the idea! Cap a couple of the little bastards as a warning to the others, and they'll behave...

...then again, this IS Chicago. The kids are probably packing better firepower and body armor.

Let them throw foie gras.

Wander00: But don't all of you Americans carry firearms? Wouldn't return fire discourage this scourge?

I use a slingshot with marbles. They never hear it coming.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: submitter: not giving out pennies to trick-or-treaters

I read that as "not giving out penises to trick-or-treaters"

I thought I was the only one who did that.

Hmm, I read it that way too. I just figured that you were the submitter.

pulling eggs on the day of is retarded. if they kids are smart like we were they'd buy them a few days before and leave them out to rot.

Try stopping me from stealing ostrich eggs this year Lincoln Park Zoo.

Don't know about pennies, but if you're giving out those nasty, peanut butter taffies wrapped in the orange or black wax paper, you deserve to be harmed.

PSA: Kids, buy your egg-ammo on Thursday.

So my right to make quiche this Friday is superseded by stupidity.

And shut up about quiche. Quiche Lorraine is a pie made out of bacon and eggs. with cheese.

Eddie Adams from Torrance: I read that as "not giving out penises to trick-or-treaters"

I thought I was the only one who did that.

You thought that you were the only one who didn't give penis to trick-or-treaters?

What did you think Halloween was about?

My approach: I have two buckets of candy out of view of the door. One bucket is fun-sized bars that I hand out by the fistful. The other is cheap crap like rockets and little no-name caramels.

If you're a little kid or a teen wearing a good costume, I grab the good bucket. If you're a teen-aged twit wearing street-clothes with a mask tucked under your arm, you get the bad bucket.

Hasn't caused me trouble yet.

PYROY: Don't know about pennies, but if you're giving out those nasty, peanut butter taffies wrapped in the orange or black wax paper, you deserve to be harmed.

No way, them things rock.

its candy corn and sweet tarts that suck.

heyheyjerky: pulling eggs on the day of is retarded. if they kids are smart like we were they'd buy them a few days before and leave them out to rot.

No, it's pretty stupid because kids aren't buying the damn eggs from a store, they're just raiding the fridge at home.

Ever try to scrape/clean dried, raw egg from a brick & mortar surface? It sucks like a Royal Dirt Devil.

The little fark-heads. And we give out the GOOD candy!

/reeses, snickers, butterfinger, payday

We would buy the eggs a month early and store them in the shed.
Nice and rotten by the 31st.
Good times.... Good times.

Ahhh, I remember one distinct Halloween, me and some friends walking up to the register with a case of TP and several cartons of eggs. She gives us a queer look and tells us that she owns a bullwhip and that we better not be visiting her house that night.

heyheyjerky: pulling eggs on the day of is retarded. if they kids are smart like we were they'd buy them a few days before and leave them out to rot.

Correct. Every good high school prankster knows that you buy a couple dozen eggs about 2 weeks before Halloween, making sure to poke a tiny hole in each egg, then you leave them in a dark, damp place.

Come Halloween, each egg smells like a truck carrying sulfur crashed into an old folks home.

The shops where I live put a 18 age limit on buying eggs around halloween.
Doesn't stop anyone though, everyone who want's to buy eggs knows someone 18+ who will get it fot them in exchange for a beer.

What would they prefer, kids throwing eggs or rocks?

/Like me

FTFA:

Since 2006, Howard Street between Ridge and Clark has been the Halloween battleground for egg wars between groups of teens.

It's not the South Side, but it's pretty shiatty. Better eggs than bullets. Although a Google search will show you that this isn't just a couple of eggs on a store front window; we're talking hundreds, maybe a couple thousand eggs splattered over everything.

Like the end of Ghostbusters when they blew up Stay-Puft, only with egg.

Mr_Fabulous: Ever try to scrape/clean dried, raw egg from a brick & mortar surface? It sucks like a Royal Dirt Devil.

I was actually doing this, except from siding, the weekend before last. Jerks also managed to throw two eggs through the screens of upper story windows.

Still better than the one who put a golf ball through a car's rear window (bonus higher replacement cost because of the defroster!)

Every so often, this tempts...

Man, I have no idea who they angered but my neighbors across the street get their house TP'd at least 8 times a year running on 3 yrs now. They never clean it either, just leave it for mother nature to take care of. They've gotten egged a few times. Luckily, never have had this problem. Did stop some teenagers 2 yrs ago from stealing candy from yonuger kids, and thought they might retaliate, but it didn't happen.

PC LOAD LETTER:

* Shakes tiny fist *

Single White Male:
Come Halloween, each egg smells like a truck carrying sulfur crashed into an old folks home.

That's doesn't smell nearly as bad as a truck full of old folks crashing into a sulfer plant.

I learned one year that the most hillarious defense against getting ones house egged on Halloween is a garden hose.

That year, the high for the day was about 45 degrees, and the low was 30 degrees.

The bastards were about 2 miles from home and were on foot.

wage0048: I learned one year that the most hillarious defense against getting ones house egged on Halloween is a garden hose.

That year, the high for the day was about 45 degrees, and the low was 30 degrees.

The bastards were about 2 miles from home and were on foot.

Sounds great, till you get sued by mummy and daddy.

Any self respecting prankster would have bought the eggs a month ago and let hem rot. Throwing fresh eggs just doesn't have the same umph.

My brother is very much of the Hank Hill Halloween mentality. He believes that kids who don't bother with a good costume deserve nothing, but if they get nothing, they should at least have the decency to egg his house.

Kids today know nothin', I tells ya!

/shakes fist
//my lawn, get off it.

wage0048: I learned one year that the most hillarious defense against getting ones house egged on Halloween is a garden hose.

That year, the high for the day was about 45 degrees, and the low was 30 degrees.

The bastards were about 2 miles from home and were on foot.

A firehose would be good.

Or balloons filled with week-old urine.

barnacleboy: wage0048: I learned one year that the most hillarious defense against getting ones house egged on Halloween is a garden hose.

That year, the high for the day was about 45 degrees, and the low was 30 degrees.

The bastards were about 2 miles from home and were on foot.

Sounds great, till you get sued by mummy and daddy.

"MOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Bobby, Timmy and I were gonna egg this house and they foiled our attack by spraying us with a garden hoooooooooooseee!! *sniffle*"

The only problem is, if they're shiatdisturbers - which they most likely are - they'll seek revenge. That's why if you catch someone vandalizing your property, you kill them.
Logic.
For your health!

Darn it... oh well, forking there tiny yards is much more fun.

jaylectricity: I was 24 years old when I TP'd my first house.

I was 24 years old when I TP'd my last house.

Smashing pumpkins was much more fun.

Yes, but Billy Corgan is such a drag...

All I saw was ass and pennies.

Eggcellent...

One month?

Amateurs!

We used to buy our eggs from Sam's club by the case in July or August. (one of those resturant packs) and store them until Halloween.

You had to be super careful not to break them on yourself though, as the smell, oh jesus, I still gag thinking about it!

bim1154
I use a slingshot with marbles. They never hear it coming.

I like your thinking.

Helpful hint: If ya heat them up in an oven then dump them in cold water they get cracks all through them. Makes said marble explode on contact.

My neighbor and I usually stay out and monitor the street on Cabbage Night (night before Halloween) and caught 2 of the little 13 -year old bastids last year. We took their eggs away from them and smashed and broke them all over them while we held them down.

They CRIED. Oh my God we almost stopped, they started to CRY! We always took our lumps as kids while trying to either roll into a ball or get away! We didnt cry, sheesh, kids these days, so wimpy.

At least we're smoothing into taking less responsibility and forwarding it to others.