Comments on: Town bans trick-or-treating

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:02:47 +0000

Actually, you don’t need to worship Satan. Just claim you are Wiccans.

Bob

By: GregS

GregS — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:32:11 +0000

Maybe the children of Dunkard Township should claim they are Satan worshippers and that Hallowe’en is a religious festival. Then they can claim this restriction violates their First Amendment rights to freedom of religion.

By: For the children!!! [Darleen Click]

For the children!!! [Darleen Click] — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:11:29 +0000

[...] And somehow, I’m not surprised by his surprise. (h/t Walter Olson) [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:16:52 +0000

I wonder if the real motivation is “the kids would be better off if they weren’t celebrating Satan’s Birthday”

Let’s face it: Halloween is a religious holiday. This is the government’s attempt to regulate one.

By: Darleen Click

Darleen Click — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:45:54 +0000

there is this delicious little scene in the second episode of Mad Man where Betty Draper’s young daughter, Sally, is playing with a friend and runs into her mom in the kitchen. Sally is wearing a dry cleaning bag overn her head. Betty’s reaction is raise her voice to Sally that if the dry cleaning that was in that bag is on the floor of the closet, then Sally is in trouble.

This takes place in 1960. I was six y/o at that time…. amazing, isn’t it, that we survived stuff like playing outside until dark, riding bikes without helmets, climbed trees, and trick-or-treated!! OHNOES, the horrors!

By: John Hochfelder

John Hochfelder — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0000

Maybe there should be a law against going to bars on Halloween too. Seems bartenders are serving an awful lot of drunks on Halloween who then drive and maim others. Who pays? Everybody.

http://www.newyorkinjurycasesblog.com/2009/10/articles/wrongful-death/courts-rule-on-important-issues-in-drunk-driving-injury-cases-husband-who-bought-drinks-may-sue-for-wifes-death-driver-who-struck-pedestrian-may-look-to-bar-to-share-in-defense/

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:38:57 +0000

Well, there’s still trick-or-treating. It’s just that now you won’t be able to buy off the little b*****ds with a candy bar. Wash the soap off your windows, and pull the toilet paper from your trees, oh ye Tomwnship Supervisors.

Bob

By: Bumper

Bumper — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 07:17:17 +0000

How dare you impugn the integrity of this fine community clearly

THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN

not bothering the crabby-don’t-want-to-answer-the-door-on-halloween-and-give-out-free-candy-adults.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:26:15 +0000

Seriously? Do the town’s residents really have so little trust for eachother? That’s a pretty sad place to live.

By: J Richardson

J Richardson — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:39:53 +0000

Is that Dunkard or Drunkard Township? If the latter, it explains the nanney-like response of the public officials.