# Ever been "tricked" on Halloween?

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**Created:** [August 29, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475 "2011-08-29T06:24:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475/1 "2011-08-29T06:24:09Z")

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Since Halloween stuff is up in stores already, it got me wondering about “trick or treating”. The “trick” part is supposedly doing low scale vandalism like egging a house. Yet I have never seen or heard this happen in real life. Have you ever had someone “trick” your house when you didn’t give out candy for some reason? Or have you either vandalized a house on Halloween or been the victim even if you did give out candy?

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475/2 "2011-08-29T23:04:18Z")

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We’ve had some senseless minor vandalism here, and not necessarily centered on Halloween. For a couple years, there was random egging, and some paint-balling. Once, a tree was TP’d.

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475/3 "2011-08-30T00:12:21Z")

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Yep. House (and nearby vehicles) got egged one year. This wasn’t a revenge prank, though - we gave out candy - this was just plain being a jackass.

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**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475/4 "2011-08-30T00:13:46Z")

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I remember going up to a house and yelling “trick or treat”. The guy said “trick” and did a fantastic card trick!

Good memory.

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**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-tricked-on-halloween/594475/5 "2011-08-30T04:55:51Z")

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When I was 16 and I had just got my license to drive. My first night out with the car. Four of us were to go out. David, Trisha, CeCe and me.

CeCe couldn’t come at the last minute.  
So I drove around while David and Trisha made out in the back seat.  
I only put up with it for 3 hours.