The only time I really remember Halloween tricking was my Junior High Years in Hyrum. We would go out together Halloweening, a group of four or five boy, with no parental supervision. (One year my cousin tammy went with ur.) Sometimes the group was larger, and sometimes smaller. The evening would begin with an inventory of our resources. What did you score? Some would have a used piece of soap with which they could mark windows. Then there was invariably a few rolls of toilet paper for "TPing." And then there was the person who had a small amount of gas in a bottle stuffed down his pants, which he had snuck out of his garage. Then we were in business. With those resources we could have great fun.
I grew up in a rural town. It wasn't like nobody was out, but there was space between people that you could do things without being seen. It wasn't one group after another, and all with adult supervision, like today. So we would find a tree to TP and a window or two to soap. Although sometimes this was disappointed as the soap wouldn't always stick well. And then there was the gas. It lead itself to all kinds of imagination; none of it good. Perhaps a bottle bomb, or just getting something to burn.
I must admit, our age was pretty lame compared to what older groups had done. There was a year with lots of leaves in the gutters and lots of flame. One year there were flaming tires rolling down main street. But we pretty much fizzled out. Our fire, even with the gas didn't last very long and quickly went out with only ourselves to see our handiwork. We lit it on a back street where no one would catch us, an no one noticed. No great glory in that.
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