Devils night and they got me

[Sawyerfortyish]

The wife says lets go out for dinner. Well it's been a long time since we've went out so I said OK. Something told me this isn't the night to go out but I went anyway. Got home about an hour and a half latter to find the toilet paper hanging from everywhere and soap on a window >:(.

[Sprucegum]

 ??? :oAround here that doesn't happen til tomorrow night - and I'll be ready for them :P

[Tom]

There are ghost shapes hanging in the trees along our 1/2 mile, heavily wooded driveway.  It even scares me thinking of it and I know that my wife put them there.  Think I'll stay in the house.

[Murf]

I live in the country, but within commuting distance of the big city. The kids around here are a split, about half are farm kids, the other half the children of commuters.

I still haven't figured out which group taught which group, or which one is bolder, but they get up to some pretty outrageous tricks, if allowed too ......  ;)

I was warned by a neighbour, a cantankerous old coot, the first year I lived here, that there would be some real shenanigans going on around (not just on), Devil's Night.

I out-thunked them, I can be more sneaky & devious than they can.  ;D

Last year I waited for them, dressed as a scare-crow and laid out in an old lounge chair. I had stuffed an old pair of coveralls with straw, and put on a stuffed pillowcase for a head, hardhat and all, and left it out on the front porch for a couple of weeks so everybody got used to seeing it. Then I dressed myself the same way and waited on a couple of evenings.  ;D

Sure enough, about 11pm a crowd of kids in 2 pickups stopped at the end of the driveway, got out and walked up the drive, I waited until they were about 30' - 40' away and jumped up, started shouting and firing (a starter's pistol) in the air then picked up and started my little limbing chainsaw (with no chain on it) and chased across the lawn after them.....

One kid tripped and fell in the garden, when he got up (facing me) there was an unmistakeable large wet spot in the front of his trousers. Another in his haste to catch his already departing ride, ran straight into the pond.

I'm a bad, bad man, I know...... but it's just so DanG much fun.

[Jeff]

Tammy arrived at her bus garage this morning to find the windshield on bus 5 smashed out by a rock flung over the fence.

[Gilman]

[Insert this one before Jeff's]


:D

[Rockn H]

Probably not the right post, but this has got me thinking.  Do any of y'all know where it is north of Kalamazoo Mi that has all the shoes hanging from a tree on the west side of the highway.  Seems like it's towards the top of the bottom if you will.

[Jeff]

There aare several trees in the state that way. The best know around here, on the road from Galord to Petoskey, got "chainsawed" in the middle of the night. It was a big double so they only got part of it, but it made the T.V. news. There had to be a couple thousand pair of shoes in that tree.

If I look, I might find a picture I took...

[Tom]

Was chainsawing the tree an act of pure vandalism
or were there arguments going on about the practice
of exhibiting the shoes?

[Jeff]

As far as I know, it was pure vandalism. Lot of upset folks as the tree was quite a landmark.

[Rockn H]

The one I was thinking of was north of Cadillac on the main North-South highway it seems. :

[farmerdoug]

We have a tree in our township that has 40-50 pair of shoes, boots and even roller blades in it.  It worries the county because it overhangs the road and they worry what will happen if a pair of laces let go when a car is passing at 55 mph.

Farmerdoug

[Tom]

That's a shame that people don't recognize an institution.   Even though the shoes probably meant nothing and the tree might not have been worth much, an action like that is just pure meanness.  

The only hope is that they wake up to their selfishness one day and regret it.

Farmerdoug.
A community that lived within the spirit of its citizens might put
a sign on the road diminishing the speed limit

Shoe Tree Ahead   :D

[Phorester]

We've got 2 places in town where somebody has thrown a pair of sneakers over a power line smack in the middle of the street.  There they are........  2 pairs of shoes hanging over the street.  One pair has been there for probably 10 years and the laces haven't rotted yet.  The other pair is on another street,  been there for a year or so.

Imagine the luck to toss up a pair of tied together shoes at just the right height and angle to loop over a thin power line.  How many times did they have to throw them up before they stayed????