Trick or Treat: Has Your Home Been Tricked?

Every Halloween, our brownstone neighborhood has a huge turnout of trick-or-treaters. We get together on the stoop and pass out candy to cute little costumed children early in the evening. But we've witnessed the aftermath of tricks on a few people's homes in the neighborhood...

We've woken to November 1 mornings on a few occasions to find smashed pumpkins on the neighbor's stoop. So, what about you, AT readers? Have Halloween pranksters ever played a trick on your home in lieu of treats? Was it just in fun with no damage done? Or did it make a mess - and how did you clean up the aftermath?

Have a Happy Halloween, and watch out for those tricksters! Image via snoopy.com.

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Had a smashed and abused pumpkin once, long ago (someone poured coke inside and extinguished the candle, and then someone smashed it)... it was my best pumpkin ever, a Martha design...

posted by mschatelaine on October 31st 2008 at 11:54am
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um.... not on halloween..... but at the beginning of this year some college kids decided to roll the house my boyfriend and i rent.... they didn't know he was home, and they were mighty surprised when he came out with a baseball bat and started wailing on them (he thought they were thieves... it was 3 am)

posted by littlejex on October 31st 2008 at 1:30pm
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Today is my birthday. My Dad came home from the hospital after seeing the birth of his son to find our house had been egged. He still blames me.

posted by spinsLPs on October 31st 2008 at 1:32pm
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The past several days has seen a McCain/Palin sign planted in front of the house.
Sure, a mean trick, a prank, but not the nightmare it would be if this joke somehow altered this election.
AAAAAAHHHHH!

posted by johnnybc on October 31st 2008 at 2:37pm
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The great egging of 2006... Howard street... Evanston and Chicago... no kids will ever be able to buy eggs again anywhere near Halloween. Look it up online. Truly epic.

posted by mozmun20 on October 31st 2008 at 6:05pm
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We used to rent a duplex and my mom carved a whole bunch of pumpkins and sat them along the edge of the porch roof (from the windows that opened out onto it.) Stinkin' kids get to the roof from the stairs going up, and start dropping them off. No one I tell this to has any sympathy. You go to this great length to make things festive and somebody goes and f's it up. Bah humbug. I wouldn't go to such an extent again unless I was armed with a serious amount of water balloons. We'll see who laughs last.

My brother used to sit up in the arch of my folks' current house and drop a huge fake spider on the trick-or-treaters. There are ways to have your tricks without vandalizing.

posted by whytephoenix on November 3rd 2008 at 6:53am
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