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should i do it again this year?

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Walleye

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every year at holloween, i always sit in front of my house dressed in a more elaborate costume that consists of ... blackness. just robes, cloak, etc etc etc to make me completely covered in black. (ends up looking like a ring wraith from LOTR, kinda).

anyway, i would always pass out candy to kids, and occassionally spray some with silly string.


do parents actually get mad if their kid gets sprayed with silly string? i had one who had a kid dressed as harry potter, i sprayed him (i dont like harry potter), and my parents tell me he went away crying. (this kid was like 13 or 14! being led around by his father!) (my parents were out in the street at the time looking at the decorations. they overheard the son and father... the father was pissed)


so, continue doing that and ignore jackasses like that?



oh, and if some ass.. over 18 years old easy, looks like trailer trash, smoking person w/o costume comes onto your property asking for candy, do you give it to them?


this was last year. i gave him a tootsie roll. should i have been more direct? as in "get the hell off my property!"? 😉
 
Originally posted by: ohtwell
Didn't you already start a thread about spraying kids with silly string??


: ) Amanda
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yeah. at GG forums 😛

i had thought it was at another set of forums i dont go to anymore. guess my memory's failing.


teh noes!! i'm going senile! and so young!
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
It's not your property. It's your parents.
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doesnt matter.

i'm dressed entirely in black, and my face isnt visible. my voice is deeper than my fathers.

so what does it matter? for all intents and purposes, to him, it IS my property.
 
What kind of neighborhood do you live in? You have 13 and 14 year old boys dressed up for Halloween and escorted by their parents!? Meanwhile, you're 18 and sitting in front of your parents' house dressed in all black spraying younger kids with silly string and/or passing out candy and, at least in one case, you gave one person ONE tootsie roll. This is too damn weird!
 
I'm surprised the guy didn't sue you into oblivion. There's a lot of great stuff I'd love to do with my yard/house/self for halloween but I'm sure some jackass parent would flip out and claim that their kid has been scarred for life. To bad too, I have this great Tim Burton-esque Sleepy Hollow setup I'd love to do.
 
Originally posted by: Medea
What kind of neighborhood do you live in? You have 13 and 14 year old boys dressed up for Halloween and escorted by their parents!? Meanwhile, you're 18 and sitting in front of your parents' house dressed in all black spraying younger kids with silly string and/or passing out candy and, at least in one case, you gave one person ONE tootsie roll. This is too damn weird!
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just an upper middle class neighborhood.


parents of kids from poorer areas of town bring their kids here too because ..wealthier people give more candy, i guess. actually, i think it's the upper middle class that gives out good amounts of candy, because the wealthy families that live in houses above ours (1 mil +) (ours = 600-700 thou) are stingy-ass bastards. seriously.


but i think that ass was just a little whiny kid. that's why his father was leading him around.
 
Originally posted by: Kaervak
I'm surprised the guy didn't sue you into oblivion. There's a lot of great stuff I'd love to do with my yard/house/self for halloween but I'm sure some jackass parent would flip out and claim that their kid has been scarred for life. To bad too, I have this great Tim Burton-esque Sleepy Hollow setup I'd love to do.
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heh. we were thinking about hooking a 9 volt battery up to a wire setup to keep people from jumping over our stucco fence.


kinda effective to see the kid before you get a nice shock. kinda stops you.
 
Soo . . . you randomly spray a kid, regardless of age/costume, and him/his father is pissed . . . and you call him a jackass?

I see an asskicking coming straight for you in the near future, courtesy of 'karma'.
 
Originally posted by: Jehovah
Soo . . . you randomly spray a kid, regardless of age/costume, and him/his father is pissed . . . and you call him a jackass?

I see an asskicking coming straight for you in the near future, courtesy of 'karma'.
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nope, it isnt regardless of age/costume.

it's entirely based on age/costume/attitude of kid.


me = not like harry potter. and the kid was older than most kids i've sprayed with silly string (and most people get a kick out of it)

i'm not about to spray someone less than 6 years old with silly string. hell, it might traumatize them 😛
 
Originally posted by: SammyBoy
explain the shocker wire device, I want one. How would you see it before it shocked them?
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you wouldnt? 😀


set out signs explaining no jumping the fence, electric shock wire etc etc.
 
Linux23:
> and yeah, if you scared my boy, I would whoop your as$.

If your kid cried about being sprayed with silly string, I'd laugh at both of you. A lot.
 
Originally posted by: hjo3
Linux23:
> and yeah, if you scared my boy, I would whoop your as$.

If your kid cried about being sprayed with silly string, I'd laugh at both of you. A lot.
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Especially if the kid was dressed as "harry potter" 😀
 
Do it again. Halloween is suppose to be fun. Why it's been turned into a day where all kids dress-up as their favorite cartoon character and get candy is beyond me. Don't let a few sour pusses ruin it. Hell, I bet your the talk of the neighborhood that night.
"Watch out for the guy in black, he might get ya with silly string!"

I think you got the right approach about not spraying younger kids though.
 
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