Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year cuz I get to "dress up" the house and scare the wits out of the neiborhood kids (and parents) when they come trick-or-treating. They don't really celebrate Halloween in Korea (I am stuck here till the end of January) and I was wondering what other experiences people have had, good or bad, with Halloween. I am sure there has got to be a couple of people out there that share my love for Halloween, and I was hopeing to get some good laughs from you guys to make up for what I am gonna miss out on this year.

DG808

 

I remember one when me and a bunch of friends were goofing off, (we were probably 13 or 14) and got chased through a cemetary by a bunch of cops.


Fast forward a few years, me and a buddy, 21 or 22, and some other buddies, up to the age of 26 I think, figure we're gonna have some fun. So we drink a couple boxes of beer, steal a bunch of kid's firecrackers and throw everything in one of the empty beer boxes, and light the box on fire.

Put the box in the middle of a side street intersection, and watch from the balcony about 100 feet away. Man, this thing went EVERYWHERE! Cars driving by got pelted with bottlerockets, a van drove by just as a big huge louder than heck BANG went off, and the driver got out to check and see if he got a flat tire. This thing was burning for a good 6 or 7 minutes, and stuff was banging or flying out every once in a while, but the funniest thing was the roman candles. As the box burned, the roman candles fell over, and got knocked around by stuff flying out, so we didn't know where the ***** of fire would go. Bouncing off curbs and landing in storm drains, Anyway, this guy in our group was trying to light a mity mite, and didn't have a lighter, so he goes down to the burning box, and tries to light the mity mite on the roman candle (dumb) and the thing blows up on him, stings his fingers and he's dancing all over the street.

Ah, good times. We didn't do the smartest thing, and surely endangered other people, and we were all drunk, (I'm not condoning my actions, just live and learn) but, there was worse stuff going on a couple miles away. Sorry for the long post, just thought I'd share.

 

Sounds like something i've done in the past.

DG808

 

A buddy of mine's parents had an old 90ish oldsmobile shilloutte van. We got some butcher paper and styrofoam and made it look like the space shuttle, wings, fins, paint and all. We cruised the hood with some sound effects blaring/ we were all dressed up in tin foil. Went bag snatchin one year too. One of our guys got beat up pretty bad by a concerned mother. It was the funniest thing I had seen up to that point.

 

One time I thought some bigger kids were after me. I was carrying a toy sword on my belt. Actually it was a WW2 bayonet, made in Japan, sharp to.

 

Every year, we used to work on the house to make it "scary".. Lights, graveyard, sounds, effects, etc. One year, I decided to add another addition to the house - me. I dressed up in slightly oversized clothing and packed the undersides of my clothing with newspapers. I wore a mask (and shades to hide my eyes). I sat outside in a chair, and sort-of slumped over. Basically the end result was that I looked really convincing as a dummy..

I would sit perfectly still, most kids never looked twice. A few parents even said "Wow, thats a great dummy". After a groups of kids came and went, I finally decided to make my move. The next group of kids came by, rang the doorbell, and just as they got their candy and begun to walk away..

I jumped up with a large scream! Bags of candy dropped... Kids scattered everywhere.. and all shared a laugh afterwards. Did this a few other times that evening. I only did it that one year, I figured the next year.. everyone would know what to expect. It was definitely fun!

 

Me and a buddy rigged up his gate and some bushes with fishing line. Hard to see fishing line at night. We used something like 30# test. We were too old to trick or treat and too young for wild parties so we made our own fun.

When kids came up to the gate one of us pulled it open just before they could reach the handle.

Those who made it up to the porch then got the treat of having the bushes shake and strange animal sounds. Lots of kids lost it and ran that night.

We got to keep a lot of the candy that year. This was back in the late 60s so there were no high tech gadgets to scare the kids back then.

I still think this would work great since kids are used to the sound and light effects, but a gate that opens itself, well...


Jim Henderson

 

Wow, nice one!!! I'd like to try that some year..

 

Yeah me too! That sounds like a good plan for next year. Hopefully I wont be in the desert then.

Keep 'em coming!!


DG808

 

Best Halloween? My fiancee (now my wife) dressed as a belly-dancer.

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A pound of black powder, duct tape, cardboard, and amazingly tolerant neighbours...

 

On Devil's night in high school some friends tried to TP my house. They didn't know I owned a large black Newfoundland. Friendliest dog in the world, he just wanted to say HI. Except when they saw a 140 lbs. black beast walk out the shadows....

Kinda funny hear "Oh @#$%, RUN!!" and see a car fly outta my driveway.....

 

~~bump~~

DG808

 

I come from a family of eight. I have four brothers and three sisters. My brothers and I used to terrorize the neighborhood on devils night. We would pick the neighbors we didn't like and fill 5 gallon buckets of muddy water, then lean them very carefully agianst the front door of the victims house. Then ring the door bell and run. When they open the door.......... We would also tie fishing wire too two trash cans together on either side of the street at about bumper height. when a car would come by it would catch the line and drag the metal cans down the street until the driver realized he was dragging something. Some drivers were more aware then others. Of course there was rotten eggs and flaming dog poop packages, soaping up cars, and toilet paper. The coup de grace was after this older eighteen year old kid down the block beat up my brother we exacted revenge by attaching a chain, painted black, to the rear axle of his 80' camaro. Then attached the other end to his shed doors. We didn't stick around to see what happened, but the next day we rode by on our bikes and the whole shed was collapsed and pulled over. I guess those shed doors weren't as strong as we thought, we were hoping to tear the axle off. His car was apparently fine.

 

Several years ago, I lived with my two brothers. We had a costume Halloween party at our house. The three of us went to our local Goodwill store and bought the flashiest plaid, checked suits they had, complete with ties, shirts, and shoes. We had hats and black plastic rimmed glasses and looked like "nerds". It was probably the best costume I've ever come up with and when we were done, we cleaned the clothes and gave them back to Goodwill. I think that's the last costume party I've attended, it was a blast!!!