Mischief Night

[SnottieDrippen]

Did you guys partake in this as youngsters? I know it's mostly limited to PA, Nj, parts of NY (and I think Michigan for some reason?) in terms of being a recognized term/night

We would go around breaking pumpkins and egging/toilet papering when I was between ages 12-15. It was always a tense time in school the next day as kids would get called into the principal's office to stand up for their crimes. I'm home for the weekend for a wedding and was almost hoping some kids would egg my parents' house so I could chase them. The spirit of halloween is dying i guess

 

[spg109876ers]

nm

 

[Doctor_Van]

I recall some people at VU referring to it as "goosey" (sp?) night. Probably PA weirdos.

 

[PrivacyBush]

Egging septa buses and cabs is a time honored tradition not just limited to mischief night in the CoP.

 

[SnottieDrippen]

One year we couldn't get anyone to sell us eggs so we got a bunch of dollar menu cheeseburgers from mcdonald's and threw them at homeless people. Our hearts grew 8x that year

 

[Greg Woodward]

I was big into mischief night as a kid. Lots of eggs thrown at people, cars (stupid), houses, even lit up the inside of a WaWa or 7-11 one time. Can even recall soaping up the windows of cop cars in the parking lot of the township building.

 

[ChuckSullivan97]

Where I grew up, it was only the a-holes that felt like they had a reputation to uphold that went out for mischief night.

 

[YourBuddyRayhad]

In the 80's/90's, werent Detroit and Canden notoriously bad (even for them) on Devil's/Mischief Night?

Rampant arson and such

 

[adp98]

Growing up in wv, we engaged in this once per month. Not a lot going. Mischief night was no exception

 

[SnottieDrippen]

Where I grew up, it was only the a-holes that felt like they had a reputation to uphold that went out for mischief night.

Same

 

[Villanova U]

I wasn't big into it because the a holes in my town used to call the cops when a bunch of kids TPd their house.

 

[SnottieDrippen]

I wasn't big into it because the a holes in my town used to call the cops when a bunch of kids TPd their house.

I guess you didn't live in an area which was conducive to fleeing on foot. We had elevated train tracks bisecting the south side of Wilkes-Barre so you could basically have the cops called on you on one side, run over the tracks to the other and the fat cops are way behind you and can't get to you by car. Good times.

 

[NickleDimer]

They only had one police car in Wilkes -Barre?

 

[SnottieDrippen]

They only had one police car in Wilkes -Barre?

Pretty much. We were ahead of the times in the anti-cop revolution

 

[FreddyShoop]

Mischief night always seemed like a thing for losers if you ask me.

 

[PrivacyBush]

Mischief night always seemed like a thing for losers if you ask me.

Shocking response.

 

[TwoDecks]

Definitely no mischief night in Boston area. People were confused

 

[NickleDimer]

Pretty much. We were ahead of the times in the anti-cop revolution

Ahead of the times on taking bribes to send thousands of teenagers to jail, tho.