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"Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by mhb0125 on 11-01-05 at 03:38 AM
Some of you may think this is funny but if you have kids you know how ticked I am. I took my 6 year old trick or treating just as I have every year in the same neighborhood of the lovely metropolis of #####, TN. We are having a good time and everyone is being nice and saying she's so pretty, too pretty to be a witch (her costume), she's saying trick or treat every time and I thank everyone. La de da, we are going along and we come to a really cool house that's all decorated and there are several people on the porch. A man and a dummy holding the bin of candy are on the porch swing. My daughter goes up to man and says tot. The man replies get two pieces of candy out the bin. As she does a woman on the porch says "Don't". I have no time to react and the dummy screams and grabs my kid. She freaks out, goes running, screaming, and crying off the porch. It would have been funny if she didn't get scared but she did! The people don't apologize to me; they just laugh and laugh like it's the funniest thing ever. You may disagree and think it's funny but I think it's so frigen mean to scare little kids. Some people just get their kicks by doing cruel tricks, I guess.
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"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by wandacal on 11-01-05 at 04:23 AM
It would have been funny if she didn't get scared but she did!

EXACTLY!

When those idiots saw her reaction, they should have apologized PROFUSELY to your daughter and you!

I don't have children and I admit that I don't know everything there is to know about kids. But if a child EVER ran away screaming and crying over something I did, it wouldn't be funny anymore.



Give her extra candy tomorrow and let her watch an extra hour of Nickolodeon!
See what a great parent I would make?

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by syren on 11-01-05 at 06:41 AM
Halloween.


Thats all I am saying. It's not just about candy.

What?


"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by brvnkrz on 11-01-05 at 06:12 PM
BOO!!!



"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by dabo on 11-01-05 at 05:36 PM
It's always crummy whenever one person's fun involves spoiling another person's fun, but frightening a little kid who is just out to enjoy the holiday is unpardonable.

ARRRRRRR!!!!

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by India on 11-01-05 at 06:19 PM
>It's always crummy whenever one person's
>fun involves spoiling another person's
>fun, but frightening a little
>kid who is just out
>to enjoy the holiday is
>unpardonable.

Absolutely. If your daughter was a teenager, or if the offender was another child (from the sound of your post, was the "dummy" an adult?), then I'd be more inclined to say, "Eh, what are ya gonna do? Kids are kids." But a 6 year old? She's a baby for God's sake!

I hope she has more fun next year.

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by dabo on 11-01-05 at 06:35 PM
Wow, that's a great siggy!

SMILES ARE FREE

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by adricharlie on 11-01-05 at 05:42 PM
Getting to scare people seems to be a big part of Halloween. Actually, the only thing I see wrong with what happened is your daughter is only 6 so you would think they wouldn't have done it to her. I would be upset also if it had happened to my youngest, who is 5 and already deathly afraid of Halloween, but probably would have laughed hysterically if it had happened to my 8 or 11 year old.

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by Puffy on 11-01-05 at 06:08 PM
That is really really mean. I hope she remembers which house it is and T.P.'s it in about 10 years.

A SyrenŽOriginal


"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by mhb0125 on 11-02-05 at 01:01 AM
I had mean thoughts running thru my head about ways to get them back. We have been going to the same neighborhood for quite a while so I will definetly remember the house. If anybody here is a "Yes, Dear" fan then you will remember the episode where Sammy gets scared and Greg goes to "get back" at the people. That immediately popped into my head but if you watched the whole episode Greg and Jimmy thru hard boiled eggs at the house which broke a window, climbed into the backseat of the owner's car when the cops came and couldn't get out when the owner got in the car, opened the door of the vehicle at the gas station to try to escape only to let the owner's dog out, and they wound up in Vegas. I know all those things wouldn't happen to me but I just don't want to end up in jail and be banned from the area. I'll be sure to post what happens next year. I have a year to think about what to do to get those *bleepers* back in a legal way!!
"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by dabo on 11-02-05 at 01:50 AM
Don't boil the eggs and don't aim at windows, they're too easy to clean off really. Use really old unboiled eggs. And don't be afraid to employ some rotten tomatoes while you're at it.
"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by tvgeek401 on 11-02-05 at 02:30 AM
Sounds like you've got some experience in vandalism.


It just wouldn't be the same without the geek! --tribe, the amazing creator of my siggie
mental note: never do anything to dabo that requires payback.

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by dabo on 11-02-05 at 02:37 AM
uhhh.... no comment. But, you know, why go to the bother of boiling eggs you aren't going to eat, makes no sense.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!


"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by India on 11-02-05 at 04:21 PM
You forgot the flaming bags of poop on the doorstep.

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by dragonflies on 11-02-05 at 08:45 AM
Something similar happened to my daughter when she was 5. She would never go back to that house again. But she still loves Halloween and trick or treating. Kids are resilient.


 that was still way to mean to do to a little girl

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by Draco Malfoy on 11-02-05 at 08:56 AM
I thought the line was usually scare but don't touch.

Fvcktards.


"Speaking of Draco, he has serious issues, still, the little snot." - kathliam

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by FishWoman on 11-02-05 at 03:15 PM
This exact scenario was the theme of Sunday's "For Better or For Worse" comic strip.

Perhaps the perpatrators thought that if it was acceptable for a nationally syndicated comic strip, it would be acceptable for your town.


~Tribephyl made this!~

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by ropefish_3 on 11-02-05 at 03:39 PM
Who thinks they have the right to grab someone else's kids?! That would give my kids nightmares for days and teach them not to trust people. That is so infuriating, I want payback.

"RE: Sick puppies doing tricks"
Posted by bystander on 11-02-05 at 03:50 PM
I agree that it was not right to scare the your daughter.

My family likes to go all out with spooky decorations. Fog machine, scary noises, scary bodies laying around, etc on Halloween. DW dresses up to hand out candy. She told me there were several little kids that wouldn't even come up to our house for trick or treating. She walked out to give them candy. She would never ever attempt to scare the little ones.

I have a 6 yo DD and there are several houses in our neighborhood that she refuses to go to because of them being scary. I leave it up to her if she wants to venture forward. At one, the parents warned their teenaged sons that a little girl was coming up and they shouldn't scare her. Teenagers don't give a rats behind about who they scare. You would think adults would know better. I'm assuming these were the adults? If so, I'd be royally p'd also.

I know it would be fun but I don't think it justifies vandalism.

Playing devil's advocate you could always not go to the scary houses.


"why i'm better"
Posted by cqvenus on 11-02-05 at 04:30 PM

lol

i had to title this reply that cuz i realized that's what i was going to say, basically... that i'm better.

cuz i love scaring kids. but the way *we* plan it is that there's a person walking around at the edge of the driveway shooing people in and out. and if there are really hesitant kids, or really little kids, we use a walkie talkie to warn the scarer not to be scary. and they usually take their mask off as the kid approaches, say hi, and be friendly, instead.

some people are just stupid. i love scaring kids, but i'd rather not kill one (we had a couple of kids stay back b/c they had heart conditions) or traumatize it for life.

~ cqc