This, too, has been thoroughly defanged: In its 49 years of existence, the ordinance has never actually been enforced. Sooooooooooooooooo lemme get this straight, a group of municipal law makers affirmatively banded together in agreement over the decision to jail 13 year olds up to 6 mos for over-age trick-or-treating? K /dQnxRxlKnG- julie warren October 21, 2019 Case in point: for two years in a row, a city in Virginia has received national attention for a purported rule on its books barring teenagers from trick-or-treating, listing fines or even jail time for failure to comply. (Safety concerns, specifically bullying and vandalism, are invoked, without much citation, as the counterpoint.)īut it does raise questions about why these sorts of arguments are so tempting and why we can’t just let this handful of perpetual topics die. It’s a somewhat lopsided debate - there are currently far more “How Old Is Too Old to Trick-Or-Treat?” articles that land vaguely on the side of allowing people to just do what they feel is best, and far fewer fiery takes from folks who think teens should be banned from Halloween streets.
Halloween combines costumes, candy, strangers, and darkness - it’s practically a powder keg of worry.Ī perennial source of that fretting? The question of how old is too old to run around in said darkness asking for said candy. For a while, we all worried about whether unscrupulous homeowners were handing out poisonous, razor blade-filled candy (a myth that’s been roundly debunked) more recently that morphed into terror over pot-laced edibles slipped into trick-or-treaters’ bags (relax, nobody likes your kid enough to waste that kind of money on them). Halloween is a flashpoint for many of our deeply held and most arbitrary social fears.
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