Trick-or-besieged

[Shade]

I have been told that, while my new town of residence (Gallup, NM) has little to offer by way of haunt houses, they take trick-or-treating very seriously here.

The past few times I was at the grocery store, I noticed people buying Halloween candy. But not just a couple of bags. They were buying (literally) baskets full.

I finally asked one woman why she was buying so much candy, and she informed me that our small town of 20,000 is BESIEGED on Halloween night by thousands of children from the surrounding reservations. She said that last year, she bought 1,500 pieces of candy, gave only one per child, and ran out about 8:30pm. She said that from 5:00 to 9:00pm, there is literally an unending line of costumed children in every driveway. There's no ringing of doorbells, because you don't ever leave your doorway.

I thought we had a lot of trick-or-treaters last year at our old house in Arvada, and that was about 60 kids. I think my head might explode if it's really like this woman says.

If it really turns out to be that insane, I will have to shoot some video and post it afterward.

[Scarica]

Sweet! I'm coming to your house next year. Last year (we were in our new place), we decked out the house with our new laser (a frickin' laser beam), coffins, the works...and we had (drumroll, please) NO trick or treaters at all. Not one. Our neighbors came over to see what was going on. They don't celebrate Halloween (poor fools). We gave up and went in to watch Young Frankenstein...which is made of awesome!

Happy Halloween to everyone at the OL!!!

[Big Perm]

Scarica, I love it!. Little known fact (although I'm sure you do) it is, in fact, the awesome that makes Gene Wilder's hair the brillo pad that it is.

And Rob, that sounds fantastic, let us know what you pulled in as soon as you've recovered because extrapolating that number would make any haunted house jealous of those numbers.

[Shade]

It was so busy I forgot to take pictures, but here's how it went down:

We gave out two pieces of chocolate and one lollipop to each trick-or-treater. We knew there were 250 lollipops in each bag, so we decided that's how we would count. We had four bags (1,000 lollipops) altogether, and we ran out of those about 8:30, so that's when the counting stopped. Trick-or-treating went on until about 9:30. I'm guessing we had around 1,200 trick-or-treaters altogether.

If we're still here next year, I'm totally building a home-haunt because there will actually be enough visitors to make it worthwhile. I'm starting to stock up on masks and decorations now because everything's 50% off.

[WelchWitch]

OMG I am soo jealous. We had 5 flippen kids here. It is so very sad that we are losing our youths to malls and other areas for trick or treating. When I was younger, I always went to the nicer part of town where I knew they had good candy and it was safer. I live in Bonnie Brae/Wash Park and you would think we would be covered in kids. Sadly no :( . Any one want some leftover candy? Thank goodness I buy what I know I will eat later. I learned that lesson very quick earlier on. I was almost tempted to go out and go trick or treating, I am short so I figured I could hopefully pull it off with out getting a rotten egg or something in my bag. I just couldn't talk. The adults here are starving for someone here to ring that doorbell.

[Luv2BScared]

I didn't get one trick or treater here.... :angry:

[jasonbach]

Cheeseman Park area - I had about 20 kids ranging in age...

[Rev. Noch]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (::jAson:: @ Nov 2 2008, 06:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=5549)</div>
Cheeseman Park area - I had about 20 kids ranging in age...[/b]

I&#39;m sorry to hear about the lack of ToT&#39;rs around the Denver area. They must have all come to my parent&#39;s neighborhood. I hang out at my Parent&#39;s because they have a creepy looking old Victorian house, plus I live in an old people neighborhood.

We had several hundred kids. There was an almost constant conga line of kids and we couldn&#39;t go back inside to have them ring the door.

[Chris]

Rev,

What neighborhood is that, I&#39;d like to know the area, just to see it and remember my youth back east, where trick or treating was huge, and is still much bigger than here.

Maybe I&#39;ll take my kids over there next year.

Chris

[Rev. Noch]

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Rev,

What neighborhood is that, I&#39;d like to know the area, just to see it and remember my youth back east, where trick or treating was huge, and is still much bigger than here.

Maybe I&#39;ll take my kids over there next year.

Chris[/b]

It&#39;s in Montclair. My parents live near 8th and Monaco. This year was unusual in the number of kids, we assumed that it&#39;s because the weather was so nice. Though they do normally have 1-2 hundred kids every year.