The Night Before Halloween

[AverageJoe 95]

Stemming off the TH/PR thread, be interesting to see what areas call the night before Halloween...I grew up in Elmwood Park(Bergen Co) and always knew it as "Goosy Night." As strange as it may sound, its known about lol.

 

http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_110.html

[DSD1026 48]

always heard it called Mischief night, even though i dont use the phrase..

[remixer 1,645]

Why is there no option for "Those little bastards with egg's night"

[Krdshrk 3,877]

Waiting outside with a bright flashlight and a BB Gun night.

[DSD1026 48]

agree with both above..  its called "wait outside and make sure the car doesnt get egged or the mailbox doesnt get knocked down" night

[lunker 274]

I grew up in Tenafly. We knew it as Cabbage Night. Friends from other towns who went to Bergen Catholic with me called it Mischief Night.

[alowerlevel 77]

Mischief Night.

[fishnut 2,358]

Mischief Night.

+1 and I had so much fun on Oct 30 from about age 12-17.

[RubberBullets 65]

Mischief night here.. actually first time I heard devils night was in reference to Chicago and Detroit.. A lot of guys I know queue up the scanner feed for these two and listen to the ruckus that goes on over there for the night.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

Mischief night. It's like a dead holiday now. Use to be fun though. I still remember the year Camden burned.

 

 

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[RubberBullets 65]

Mischief night. It's like a dead holiday now. Use to be fun though. I still remember the year Camden burned.

 

 

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That's because toilet papering shit will get you all types of charges vandalism, destruction of property, pain and suffering, psychological trauma, wasting earths precious resources..<insert whiny crybaby society antics> etc etc..

 

I remember there was a group in town that burnt a couch in the middle of the same street...evvveerrry year for 5 yrs... Wish I knew where they got all those damn couches from.

[ZED 54 1]

Mischief Night, some of my best memories.

[plode 0]

Mischief night. It's like a dead holiday now. Use to be fun though. I still remember the year Camden burned.

 

 

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Didn't they shoot at the responding firemen? 

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

I grew up in New York, and had not heard of this until moving to New Jersey in late October many years ago.  I had gotten married just a few days earlier.  When my bride informed me that it was "Goosey Night," I got all excited until she explained to me what it was.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

I've never heard the term goosey night in my life

 

 

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[plode 0]

Waiting outside with a bright flashlight and a BB Gun night.

 

I've waited outside in my bushes in camo with the paintball gun. My BB gun will penetrate through a 3/4" piece of plywood- not a good idea to shoot someone with. 

3 years a row the neighbor kid(~12-14 years old at the time) toilet papered our trees and wrote in our driveway with a bar of soap. With the morning dew soaking the toilet paper it made it nearly impossible to get it out of the trees(35ft tall).  He would do it at like 2-3AM, so we didn't find it till about 7AM. 

I waited till about 1:30AM and sure enough he came walking down the street. 

I ended up watching him toss the first roll, and then I shot...nailed him right in the chest. He took off running.  I then went next door and had a chat with his parents.  I banged on the door until they came and answered it.  They both denied he did it, so I asked for him to come and join our conversation.  I then asked his parents, if he wasn't throwing toilet paper into my trees, then why does he have paint all over his sweatshirt?   I just shot a paintball at whoever was toilet papering my trees in the chest, and found this backpack in my driveway with 3 or 4 rolls of toilet paper and a bar of soap, which they identified as his backpack.  They started screaming at him and made him come over and clean it up.  He hasn't done anything since(4 years ago). 

[AverageJoe 95]

I grew up in New York, and had not heard of this until moving to New Jersey in late October many years ago.  I had gotten married just a few days earlier.  When my bride informed me that it was "Goosey Night," I got all excited until she explained to me what it was.

How did she explain it?

[bennj 215]

Mischief Night. Every year my friends and I would go out with soap and eggs. My last time out, we egged a police wagon. We thought we were hiding in the shadows until they doubled back and pegged us. They politely approached us and asked if we might have seen any kids throwing eggs, while tapping all our pockets with their sticks. We assured them that it wasn't us. I had to throw out the pants and jacket I had on or risk a beating at home.

[Teky0101 6]

You forgot All Hollows Eve but mischief night also works.

[RubberBullets 65]

. They politely approached us and asked if we might have seen any kids throwing eggs, while tapping all our pockets with their sticks.

God damn genius... +1 popo

 

I get it if eggs ruin your property... and usually its the idiots nowadays that tend to commence in some time old tom foolery, but man look how far we've come.

[fishnut 2,358]

Mischief Night. Every year my friends and I would go out with soap and eggs. My last time out, we egged a police wagon. We thought we were hiding in the shadows until they doubled back and pegged us. They politely approached us and asked if we might have seen any kids throwing eggs, while tapping all our pockets with their sticks. We assured them that it wasn't us. I had to throw out the pants and jacket I had on or risk a beating at home.

HAHAHA A bunch of my friends and I got caught by the cops one year with about 5 dozen eggs and a bunch of cans of shaving cream and they gave us a choice smash the eggs on our heads and squirt each other with the shaving cream or get into the back of the cruzer. My mom could not even yell at me because she was laughing so hard when I came home that night.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

God damn genius... +1 popo

 

I get it if eggs ruin your property... and usually its the idiots nowadays that tend to commence in some time old tom foolery, but man look how far we've come.

Yeah you would be in the back of the car quick now a days. No fun allowed. Kids are criminals.

 

[Shawnmoore81 623]

Hell we use to do all that crap on the last day of school. Spray each other with shaving cream and eggs. Nobody wore nice cloths. School and cops put an end to that.

[fishnut 2,358]

Yeah you would be in the back of the car quick now a days. No fun allowed. Kids are criminals.

not in the town I grew up in cops still look the other way at toilet paper, eggs and soap on Oct 30 and on July 4th the cops in the town I live in now watch everyone light off fireworks 

[chris327 30]

from wayne, everyone around called it goosey night

[Arbelest 29]

Always heard Mischief night..

 

Didn't they shoot at the responding firemen? 

Threw rocks at for sure and then stole stuff of the trucks.  I was told they would empty all the compartments before going into Camden and just leave hose on the truck.

[Shawnmoore81 623]

Always heard Mischief night..

 

Threw rocks at for sure and then stole stuff of the trucks. I was told they would empty all the compartments before going into Camden and just leave hose on the truck.

Yeah they did shoot at em.

[remixer 1,645]

BTW in brooklyn we use to use shaving creme. you break off the tab and that thing shoot like 10 feet.

[Lalo 13]

BTW in brooklyn we use to use shaving creme. you break off the tab and that thing shoot like 10 feet.

 

Remove the standard tab off the shaving cream can and instead, install one from a hair spray aerosol can or the like. Oh the memories...

[Anselmo 87]

Tic Tac night.  Soap and shaving cream.  Sometimes we'd shoot houses with a slingshot using acorns as ammo.