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Town bans trick-or-treating

“Bob Huggins, a Dunkard Township supervisor, said many local residents agree with town officials that it would be better for local youngsters not to be going door-to-door.” [KDKA Pittsburgh; Ken at Popehat (“To Save Childhood, It Is Necessary To Destroy It”); Dunkard/Bobtown, Greene County, Pennsylvania]

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

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

    • By Joe

  • 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 Bumper

  • 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

  • Maybe there should be a law against going to bars on Halloween too. đŸ™‚ 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/

  • 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!

  • 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 Robert

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

  • 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 GregS

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

    Bob