Trick,Treat or Menace ?

Halloween is an nightmare for deaf people as we get targeted by children and get flour and eggs thrown at us. We were issued with posters by police so that trick or treating people are NOT welcome to our homes, and they will be reported if they attempt to harass deaf people and refuse to leave when asked to, we had children here as young as 8 demanding money or they would cause damage to our home.

They come in gangs of 5 or 6 and very threatening they stop you on the street, and block your access until you give them money. When you go shopping you also get Guy Fawkes gangs collecting 'penny for the guy' which mostly is an plastic shopping bag stuffed with old clothes, the object is clearly to get money and has no link to anything traditional. They can stand at bus ques preventing you getting on them, or even at car park entrances, unless you give them money too, it is in reality demanding money with menace, highly organised, and very cynical... and children are getting younger every day doing it.

There were so many attacks on disabled and elderly, they banned the sale of eggs and flour at local shops. Time to call time on trick and treating I say.