Has it been eradicate from our vocabulary in the past decade? Will anyone get TP'd tonight? I guess real violence has overtaken the harmless pranks and traditions of the little ghouls and goblins
Does Mischief Night even exist anymore?
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You're a day early bac. If you want we can tp your place and car.
haha yes I am getting ahead of myself. looking forward to Halloween. Anyhoo does anyone expect any activity tonight. Do police even bother to have curfews and patrol. Why do people call it Cabbage Night?
The worst the neighborhood you live in the worse it is. In some neighborhoods they start early and don't stop until Monday.
This doesn't appear to be an issue where i live thankfully.
This doesn't appear to be an issue where i live thankfully.
I grew up in Cresskill and we called it Cabbage night and I have no idea why.
When i was growing up it was called Hell Night. The teenagers used to throw rocks at cars driving by. Broke windows of cars that were parked. Broke house windows. Randomly mugged and jumped people.
And of course setting fires thus the name.
And of course setting fires thus the name.
what year did you think it started to go away...Id say the advent of everyone owning a computer, then smart phones probably started monopolizing bored kids minds. Maybe 9/11 also started the decline...so maybe around 2001 and then year after year it just got less. I bet if you ask a 12 year old about it today he would look at you like you have 3 ears
It's good that it's going away imo. An occasion that encourages hooliganism is not something that should be tolerated.
I remember there was a case back in Australia 10-15yrs ago where a group off teens egged an old lady's house and ended up accidentally killing her.
I remember there was a case back in Australia 10-15yrs ago where a group off teens egged an old lady's house and ended up accidentally killing her.
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In the town I grew up in (during the 60's & 70's) last night would have been doorbell night where we rang doorbells and ran away. Tonight was mischief night where we threw toilet paper on trees and soaped car windows.
Not much goes on where we live now and I can't say I mind. I think the repercussions are too great now a days, kids would probably be charged with vandalism for what we used to do.
Not much goes on where we live now and I can't say I mind. I think the repercussions are too great now a days, kids would probably be charged with vandalism for what we used to do.
Goosey night where I grew up in Wayne. Still remember putting dog crap in a bag lit on fire on the porch of a local lawyers house. He was doing the poopy wahtoosi!
We called it Goosey Night...which is ridiculously absurd in retrospect.
The kids are such sheltered pansies where I live now, they would never be able to secure eggs, TP and shaving cream like we did. lol
The kids are such sheltered pansies where I live now, they would never be able to secure eggs, TP and shaving cream like we did. lol
Detroit used to have something called Devil's Night. Which sounds just as awful as the nonsense I used go through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Night
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil's_Night
We grew up calling it Goosey Night in Wayne. I didn't find out until I was virtually grown how isolated a regional term it was - mostly Passaic County and a few other nearby areas, and that's it. My wife grew up in Middlesex Co. and looks at me like I'm crazy every time I say it, but then again, she looks at me that way when I say a lot of things.
Me too. Clifton.
My wife grew up in southern Bergen and they called it Mischief night
Yup. Mama Source grew up in Clifton, dad in Paterson, and that was their term, too. I never realized it wasn't universal (or at least all-Jersey) until I was at least late teens, maybe 20.
Those must have been some really hard-boiled eggs.
It was Mischief Night in West Orange. Limited to a couple eggs from the fridge and TP. Ring door bells and run away. Nothing sinister.
Habit makes me put the car in the garage down here even though it isn't necessary. Hell, I haven't even had a trick or treater in probably 15 years. Any kids in the area go into town to get candy and I guess, cause mischief.
Habit makes me put the car in the garage down here even though it isn't necessary. Hell, I haven't even had a trick or treater in probably 15 years. Any kids in the area go into town to get candy and I guess, cause mischief.
When I lived in Edison 30 years ago ,I got mischiefed one time. Eggs on my upper floor white aluminum siding.Had to replace the siding.Insurance covered it but it was a PIA.
There is a street close to 35 (can't remember the name) where it is sanctioned.
I think hearing about this (I also have an association with Devil's Night and fires in Detroit after the '84 World Series) was my first awareness that the whole world didn't call it Goosey Night. I was 13.
A lot of towns in New Jersey have organized community events on the night before Halloween, in part to keep kids off the streets on mischief night… No I don't mean to keep them from egging peoples houses, but to keep them from getting run over as they sneak around in the dark.
I grew up in Belleville and the Nutley area and we always called it Mischief night..
ohhhh...the spaghetti triangle...minga...
lol
I grew up on the north west side of Clifton...near the West Paterson (or is it Woodland Park today?), Little Falls side of town. Worlds apart from the Nutley side. Until I got to HS, I don't think I even KNEW anyone from that side of Clifton. lol