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What’s the penalty here? Halloween edition (1 Viewer)

brohan when they eat that much sugar they will probably instantly get kidney failure so the penalty is probably a life of dialasis which frankly should feel pretty damned bad about take that to the bank bromigo  

 
I see a business opportunity here.  We need to design a candy dispensing system.  One push of a bar and one piece dispenses.  We could model it on the dispensing systems they used for all of those rat/cocaine studies back in the 80's.  Homeowners like Otis could mount it outside on Halloween and set rules for dispensing, one piece every ten seconds or so, if the bar is pushed, and if the kids are below a certain height (Requires height reader upgrade, not available on base model)

We just have to armor it and lock it to standards of maybe a home gun safe, and mount it sufficiently that those little rascals cannot run off with it.

 
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Imagine coupling my dispensing system with a video feed and an electrical shocking mat.  If fatty tries for to0 many rounds of dispensing you warn him remotely one time and then give the rotund reveler a bit of a jolt, not so much as to melt his fillings in his teeth, but enough to have him pissing sparks that night.

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
I see a business opportunity here.  We need to design a candy dispensing system.  One push of a bar and one piece dispenses.  We could model it on the dispensing systems they used for all of those rat/cocaine studies back in the 80's.  Homeowners like Otis could mount it outside on Halloween and set rules for dispensing, one piece every ten seconds or so, if the bar is pushed, and if the kids are below a certain height (Requires height reader upgrade, not available on base model)

We just have to armor it and lock it to standards of maybe a home gun safe, and mount it sufficiently that those little rascals cannot run off with it.
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Great idea to restrict the kid's efforts, but the squirrels would empty it within 5 minutes.

 
NotSmart said:
Great idea to restrict the kid's efforts, but the squirrels would empty it within 5 minutes.
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I am not pitting my brain against a squirrels agility or perseverance,  nor against a raccoon's dexterity and intelligence, for that matter.  I am no fool, I know my limitations.  No, I am talking about outwitting Long island adolescents hyped up on sugar, a far easier task.

 
Man those kids needed someone to step out from behind a bush and slap them silly.

You just know those rich jackholes have mommy and daddy give them the exact same candy all the time. 

 
Dude, their kids.  Was it the nicest thing in the world to do, no.  Is it the worst thing in the world, no.  Kids don't think about consequences, for instance, their taking all the candy would deprive these other "diverse kids" you are feeling guilty about out of their share of candy.  They were just thinking they hit lotto.  In short, relax dude.  The reaction seems a bit much to a seemingly innocuous kid stunt. 

 
Ditkaless Wonders said:
You are responsible for the predictable outcome.  Reminds me of Private Pyle not locking his footlocker.  If it wasn't for people like you all there wouldn't be any thievery in this world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNGaafnAGk
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Sounds to me like the penalty was already handed out to the one responsible.

If you put out a bucket of candy, some kid WILL raid it. The penalty for your laziness/cheapness is that one group took all the candy.

Pre-teens/teens are all hormonal dengenerates ruled by their hormones and base impulses. This is known. Expecting them to act outside of their nature is entirely on you.

 
every year for the last 13 years we've been leaving a bowl of candy out while we take our little ones trick or treating (have 4 kids aged 8 to 16).   usually come back after an hour or so and its empty.    ONe year about 4 years ago, not only was it empty but they took the ####### bowl.   It was a nice stainless steel big ### mixing bowl.   Those things cost money.

now we put it in a paper bag.   Last night was the first time ever that we came back and there was still candy in it.

so i answered the door a few times then, and these little guys would freak out when i said "take as much as you want"    my wife bought about 3 huge bags too many.

one kid was like "really?"  and grabbed so much he was dropping them as he tried to put them in his bag.   that kid is for sure a future alcoholic.

 
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tommyboy said:
every year for the last 13 years we've been leaving a bowl of candy out while we take our little ones trick or treating (have 4 kids aged 8 to 16).   usually come back after an hour or so and its empty.    ONe year about 4 years ago, not only was it empty but they took the ####### bowl.  It was a nice stainless steel big ### mixing bowl.   Those things cost money.

now we put it in a paper bag.   Last night was the first time ever that we came back and there was still candy in it.

so i answered the door a few times then, and these little guys would freak out when i said "take as much as you want"    my wife bought about 3 huge bags too many.

one kid was like "really?"  and grabbed so much he was dropping them as he tried to put them in his bag.   that kid is for sure a future alcoholic.
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Check out restaurant supply stores for that kind of stuff if you have one anywhere near you. I finally went to one near me not long ago and was shocked at the crazy low prices on pretty nice stuff. I got a giant stainless steel mixing bowl that is sturdy enough to use as a double boiler for like $9.

 
Silver & Black said:
Dude, their kids.  Was it the nicest thing in the world to do, no.  Is it the worst thing in the world, no.  Kids don't think about consequences, for instance, their taking all the candy would deprive these other "diverse kids" you are feeling guilty about out of their share of candy.  They were just thinking they hit lotto.  In short, relax dude.  The reaction seems a bit much to a seemingly innocuous kid stunt. 
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Link me up to the part where I said this was the worst thing in the world.   

 
Simple answer is to loot your own kids bags and give out the things in there that no one likes to the diverse crowd that showed up later on.  Two birds with one stone here...kids taken care of and crap candy gone from house. 

Or just give each of the diverse kids 5k and put them on retainer for their future landscaping business. Whatever works better for you. 

 
Silver & Black said:
Dude, their kids.  Was it the nicest thing in the world to do, no.  Is it the worst thing in the world, no.  Kids don't think about consequences, for instance, their taking all the candy would deprive these other "diverse kids" you are feeling guilty about out of their share of candy.  They were just thinking they hit lotto.  In short, relax dude.  The reaction seems a bit much to a seemingly innocuous kid stunt. 
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Note the wrong their/they're/there.  Typical Raiders fan.

 
Has leaving a bowl of candy out always been a thing?  When my kids were little and we were out with them, we just turned our lights off.

A few times my FIL and MIL came in from the farm to give candy while we were out.  A bowl outside would last about 10 minutes. The shark move would be to leave an already empty bowl out.

 
Trick or treat started at 6:00 PM and it ends here at 8:00 PM. It was sprinkling at 6:00 but we still had a TON of kids in our neighborhood so I'm giving out like 5 pieces of candy plus a little bag of cheese balls to everyone.  By 7:30 we had a giant bowl of candy and cheese balls still left over (wifey bought a TON of candy this year.)  Anyway, it's getting late, it's pouring raining and no-one is showing up and I really don't need the candy.  So about 7:45 two kids show up, a brother and a sister, and Dad is with them and Dad looks absolutely beat.  My wife notices the kids have hardly any candy and she says "oh my you guys don't have much candy what's going on?  The worn out Dad looks up and says "ugh, we got a late start."  My wife says "you know what?  You are officially done kids!  And she proceeds to fill both of those bags up, she emptied the WHOLE thing into their bags!"  The looks on their faces was priceless, the Dad looks at us and says "Oh man, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, I can go home now, let's go kids, we're done! "  :)

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
Has leaving a bowl of candy out always been a thing?  When my kids were little and we were out with them, we just turned our lights off.

A few times my FIL and MIL came in from the farm to give candy while we were out.  A bowl outside would last about 10 minutes. The shark move would be to leave an already empty bowl out.
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Last year I left bowl out while we were hitting the neighborhood and a ran an old computer cam under the front door so it looked like it was under surveillance.  In hindsight, pretty tacky move.  But it did prevent kids & adults from swiping the whole thing. 

 
WhatDoIKnow said:
Has leaving a bowl of candy out always been a thing?  When my kids were little and we were out with them, we just turned our lights off.

A few times my FIL and MIL came in from the farm to give candy while we were out.  A bowl outside would last about 10 minutes. The shark move would be to leave an already empty bowl out.
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Or put out a bowl full of apples.

 
Sullie said:
My wife notices the kids have hardly any candy and she says "oh my you guys don't have much candy what's going on? 
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Shark Move Pro Tip: When our kids’ buckets get kind of full they dump all but about four pieces into a grocery bag so the people at the next house think like your wife. Rinse and repeat as it fills again. 

 
Next year: RFID tags in the candy. Track them down, enact justice.

We have the technology.

 
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My penalty was trudging through two pages of this thread. Fortunately, it was salvaged by a Studs appearance.

Oh, and Acer’s crosscheck post. :lmao:

 
I still can’t get past the view of “well you idiot, you left your door unlocked. So your wife and children deserved to be raped and you deserved to have all your #### stolen because you’re an idiot.”

interesting world view 

 
But it makes perfect clear why generations of idiots persist. Obviously idiot parents are raising idiot children and teaching them it’s totslly fine to be an idiot. 

 
Yeah, I’m not understanding all the shade Otis is getting. It is not uncommon for people to leave bowls out in our neighborhood (we’ve done it before and plenty of our friends have as well) and I’ve never heard of a group of kids emptying the entire bowl into their bags. Sure, you know it’s always a possibility, but I don’t understand why everyone is so accepting of it. If that were my kid, I’d want to know so that I could punish him for being a selfish little ####. But I am confident that that would never be my kid, because, well, I raised him to not be a selfish little ####.

Also, the kids need to be busted not only for being selfish little ####s, but also for being complete morons who did this brazenly in front of a freaking doorbell camera.

 
not sure how this is surprising. Most 8-10 year olds are gonna pillage a pile of candy left out.  I don't really think it's bad.  They aren't stealing.  

 
bigbottom said:
Yeah, I’m not understanding all the shade Otis is getting. It is not uncommon for people to leave bowls out in our neighborhood (we’ve done it before and plenty of our friends have as well) and I’ve never heard of a group of kids emptying the entire bowl into their bags. Sure, you know it’s always a possibility, but I don’t understand why everyone is so accepting of it. If that were my kid, I’d want to know so that I could punish him for being a selfish little ####. But I am confident that that would never be my kid, because, well, I raised him to not be a selfish little ####.

Also, the kids need to be busted not only for being selfish little ####s, but also for being complete morons who did this brazenly in front of a freaking doorbell camera.
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Which is why I'd post the video on FB and ask, "Who raised these kids?"

 
Tusken Raider said:
My penalty was trudging through two pages of this thread. Fortunately, it was salvaged by a Studs appearance.

Oh, and Acer’s crosscheck post. :lmao:
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Exactly.

I figured the point of all this was to end up posting the video on Next Door or the like and let the hilarity ensue.  But no.  So until then, this SUX.

 
bigbottom said:
Yeah, I’m not understanding all the shade Otis is getting. It is not uncommon for people to leave bowls out in our neighborhood (we’ve done it before and plenty of our friends have as well) and I’ve never heard of a group of kids emptying the entire bowl into their bags. Sure, you know it’s always a possibility, but I don’t understand why everyone is so accepting of it. If that were my kid, I’d want to know so that I could punish him for being a selfish little ####. But I am confident that that would never be my kid, because, well, I raised him to not be a selfish little ####.

Also, the kids need to be busted not only for being selfish little ####s, but also for being complete morons who did this brazenly in front of a freaking doorbell camera.
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All of this. 

Because the thing you’re all missing is that it’s not really about the candy at all. These are kids who bring these same attitudes and behaviors with them to everything else in their lives. They are selfish jerks to other kids in school. They are entitled.  In life, when nobody is looking, they’ll take what isn’t theirs and do what they shouldn’t—because they can get away with it.  These qualities are everything that’s wrong with the world today. And it begins with people raising kids totally accepting of that kind of behavior. 

Like BB, no way would my kids do that. It would feel too wrong to them, they’d understand it’s like stealing, and it is ruining it for all the kids who come after them, and their moral compass would tell them not to. And, hopefully, they take those same morals and that same notion of respect with them and apply them across their whole lives. 

It isn’t about candy. 

 
Henry Ford said:
I think I accidentally chased @Weebs210 off.  Come back, Weebs!  I didn't mean to actually offend!  Come make fun of Otis!

No offense, Otis.
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It takes alot more then that to offend me. I love how Otis doesn't think his kid would take the whole bucket of candy if no one was looking. I just hope he doesn't become a better old man once he realizes his kid isn't some angel who does no wrong.

 
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Weebs210 said:
It takes alot more then that to offend me. I love how Otis doesn't think his kid would take the whole bucket of candy if no one was looking. I just hope he doesn't become a better old man once he realizes his kid isn't some angel who does no wrong.
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I find it more interesting that you know your kid would take it and dont see an issue with that.

 
Weebs210 said:
It takes alot more then that to offend me. I love how Otis doesn't think his kid would take the whole bucket of candy if no one was looking. I just hope he doesn't become a better old man once he realizes his kid isn't some angel who does no wrong.
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Otis has daughters.  Daughters would not do this. Sons, well sons are different.  For sons Halloween is a lawless night to pillage, in a controlled manner.  I would expect my sons to empty the bowl, take the bowl and drop a deuce in it and then put it back.  My daughters, well they would politely take one piece, or if the bowl was empty and they were there at the same time a younger kid came up they would give that kid a piece out of their own bag to see the smile on the younger kid's face.

 
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Otis - I wanted to relay this story on that I think about from time to time :

This was about 25 years ago.  I worked in a big office building downtown. I sat outside the CIO's office.  He had a really nice secretary, she was about 65 years old, very sweet old woman, extremely religious, I think she was from Louisville but she had kind of a thick southern drawl.  I'm just trying to paint a picture here.  Anyway, so she always had candy on her desk and I used to swing by and grab a candy out of the candy dish, shoot the $hit a little bit with her and have nice conversations.

One day, it's 5:00 PM and she started cleaning off her desk and right before she put everything away I noticed that she took the candy dish off her desk and locked it up in her desk drawer.  I said "oh wow, so you lock up the candy because you don't trust people eh?"  She sat up quickly and she said "no, I lock it up to take away the temptation, the same as locking up my car.  It's not that I don't trust anyone, I don't want anyone to be tempted to take anything out of my car so I do my best to take away the temptation." 

I agree you shouldn't have to do this but I approach life this way, I always do my best to take away the temptation.

 
Sullie said:
Otis - I wanted to relay this story on that I think about from time to time :

This was about 25 years ago.  I worked in a big office building downtown. I sat outside the CIO's office.  He had a really nice secretary, she was about 65 years old, very sweet old woman, extremely religious, I think she was from Louisville but she had kind of a thick southern drawl.  I'm just trying to paint a picture here.  Anyway, so she always had candy on her desk and I used to swing by and grab a candy out of the candy dish, shoot the $hit a little bit with her and have nice conversations.

One day, it's 5:00 PM and she started cleaning off her desk and right before she put everything away I noticed that she took the candy dish off her desk and locked it up in her desk drawer.  I said "oh wow, so you lock up the candy because you don't trust people eh?"  She sat up quickly and she said "no, I lock it up to take away the temptation, the same as locking up my car.  It's not that I don't trust anyone, I don't want anyone to be tempted to take anything out of my car so I do my best to take away the temptation." 

I agree you shouldn't have to do this but I approach life this way, I always do my best to take away the temptation.
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This is the same reason why your CIO had a 65-year-old secretary.

 
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