Halloween Vandalism
October 30, 2009
Is Halloween a holiday for kids to have fun, or for rambunctious teens to smash pumpkins and antagonize children?
Halloween is one of the best holidays for little kids, because they get to dress up as a hero, wear a disguise, and get candy. It’s a triple threat: both parents and their children get to wander around and trick-or-treat, not to mention decorate outside and turn their homes into haunted abodes, to scare other kids away and eat all the extra candy. However, no every kid feels the same way.
Last year, many people woke up on November first to find their pumpkins smashed and decorations ruined, shocking many families. Although having fun is important, ruining someone else’s is not worth anyone’s while. Halloween pranks and crimes can turn into disasters for those who have been punked, and cause more harm than good, because the high of committing the crime will not last. Halloween is a fun, exciting holiday and one of its benefits is being able to carve pumpkins or spread fake cobwebs out along bushes, but if people are going to ruin others’ artwork and decorations, why make the effort to excite people? Homes, cars, and even kid’s bicycles not only with body damage, but covered in eggs, spray paint, and silly string have been vandalized on Halloween night, only to be discovered with dismay the next morning.
Suffice to say, Halloween crimes are completely inappropriate and immature. There is no reason to screw up someone else’s Halloween with a small prank that can turn into a big hassle. Joking about the uselessness of Halloween sure, but it is not worth messing up others’ hard work. Halloween is a holiday for fun, and ruining it for some is an ineffective and petty way of showing a hatred for the holiday itself.
Michelle Schubert, Staff Writer
