Happy Goosey Night!

[Wicked Blue]

It's what kids in the northermost parts of New Jersey called the night of October 30. A night for soaping windows and ringing doorbells when I was a kid. I don't know if Goosey Night is still done.

It's known as Mischief Night in central NJ.

Here's an article I wrote about it years ago:

https://offeringstone.wordpress.com/2012/10/

[Srkdqltr]

1. Devil's night in Detroit. Fun at first, then not fun at all. We do not call it that anymore.

At first it was toilet paper on trees and soaped windows. Sometimes waxed windows , harder to clean. Then at the last awful fires.
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[Wicked Blue]

2. That was carrying it way too far

It's supposed to be a night for harmless pranks.

[Srkdqltr]

3. The thing is, things escalate each year people had to up.the game until the mayor had to take a firm hand. Took several

Years to subside. Still flares from time to time.

[John1956PA]

4. About thirty years ago, the cable company offered free premium channels to keep pranksters home.

I do not know if that freebie continued over the years.