Poll: Have you ever heard of Gate Night?

You mean mischief night. Never heard the term Gate night. And I think this pheneomenon is in every town with kids.

 

4 drunk-asses rolled on my house on saturday. I did a little jet li ninja **** (was outside installing a rack on my car) and snuck up right next one of them before yelling "HEY!" He got all scared and bounced back to the truck which was like 2 houses down. Then the truck driver asked that guy if he was gonna have to kick my ass, hammered the throttle and pointed the truck right for me. Well ****, here's like 4 big dudes drunk out of their minds and looking for weakness - I took my chances standing my ground with the f-150 wailing in my direction. Anyway it worked and the jackasses left after a little "discussion" with the fattest of the fat.

I didn't know this was a tradition ... shouldn't done a little more observation I guess.

 

Here in Detroit it is Devils' Night. Over 50,000 volunteers to help make it "Angels Night". There were 141 fires (up over 22%) in the three days up to Halloween.

 

I love some of the burbs around Detroit, but they ought to let the actual city burn to the ground...it's a crime ridden dump!!

 

In Southern Ontario growing up it was also called Devil's Night. People would come from Detroit to burn stuff.

 

In the UK (well in the area I grew up!) we have Mischief Night on Nov 4th. It's the night before Guy Fawks* night. Kids basically run around plying pranks on people and enjoying some mild vandalism!


*Guy Fawks night is November 5th when we light a bonfire with a model of Guy Fawks on it. We then let off fireworks and shiver. Guy Fawks tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament a few hundred years ago. He was caught and executed.

 

I heard that the night before halloween refered to as mischief night, but never gate night. That never went on where i grew up though, we always waited until halloween.

 

erm, wasn't this the whole plot of The Crow...?

 

I don't remember a before-halloween mischief night tradition here in Dallas.

The big thing I remember about halloween was the whole thing almost dying out in the early '70s because of those horrible reports of razor blades in apples, etc.