Pumpkin Smashing. Ever been?

• thavoice

  The good ole days as a kid. Walking around town in October at night, smashing unsuspecting pumpkins all over the streets.
  
  Some close calls, a small fire quickly extinguished (was a candle in it and was tossed into dry leaves on the street), and all together good times.
  
  
  I imagine nowadays that gets ya time in juvy hall or whatever.
  
  Saw a pic on facebook of some woman who made a sign to the person who smashed their 2 year olds pumpkin.
  
  What a bitch......
  
  But anyways...were you guilty?
• cat_lover

  Saw The Smashing Pumpkins back in 92 and it was a good show.
  
  Oh wait I'm off topic. No I never smashed pumpkins but our pumpkins were smashed a couple of times on our porch. Clean up was not that much fun.
• Mohican00

  

  no, I was not a juvenile delinquent
• Fab4Runner

  

  Pretty rude.
  
  Smash your own pumpkins if you feel the need.
• justincredible

  

  Mohican00;1526622 wrote:no, I was not a juvenile delinquent

  This.
• queencitybuckeye

  Serious question, what is the point of doing this? I'm not getting it.
• Devils Advocate

  

  I was listening to smashing pumpkins just the morning...
• Iliketurtles

  

  Fab4Runner;1526624 wrote:Pretty rude.
  
  Smash your own pumpkins if you feel the need.

  Yeah I've smashed pumpkins and it was always a fun time but they were always my pumpkins. Pretty terrible to go smash someone elses.
• thavoice

  Didnt know this was such an upstanding group of people on the OC!
• dlazz

  Mohican00;1526622 wrote:no, I was not a juvenile delinquent

  Samsies.
• vball10set

  Yup, but just once. The owner chased us down to the the field at the end of our dead end street (yeah, we weren't very smart), took us back to our house and had us fess up to our parents. Picked up what was left of the pumpkin, and had to do yardwork for the guy for @6 hours on a Saturday. Not fun.
• OSH

  

  My friends and I, as well as my bro and his friends, used to do a lot of pumpkin swiping.
  
  It was a good time. I think one year we all got like 70+ pumpkins from around the county. It required a lot of driving and many rural road miles.
• said_aouita

  

  When at WSU I found a pumpkin on a porch in Fairborn that was so large it would not fit through the window of my roomies car.
  About the time the trunk closed the porch light came on.
  
  Good times.
• said_aouita

  

  Personally I had the most fun stealing yard balls. That was when in Canton though. Tons of white trash people in NEO decorate their double wides with them.
• thavoice

  I would rather have my pumkin smashed instead of stolen. At least then I know it was just some kids having some fun and not an older person just stealing it.
• thavoice

  said_aouita;1526677 wrote:Personally I had the most fun stealing yard balls. That was when in Canton though. Tons of white trash people in NEO decorate their double wides with them.

  What are yard balls?
  
  We would transition from pumpkin smashing to lightbulbing (taking a christmas light out of a strand) in the winter. Back then ya take one light out and many times the whole strand would go out.
• GoChiefs

  

  thavoice;1526688 wrote:What are yard balls?

  I'm assuming
  
  
• GoChiefs

  

  thavoice;1526688 wrote:(taking a christmas light out of a strand) in the winter. Back then ya take one light out and many times the whole strand would go out.

  We would do this to my neighbor, but replace it with a burnt out bulb.
• Belly35

  

  GoChiefs;1526719 wrote:I'm assuming
  
  

  Those are Witches ball .... keeps Witches away
• Belly35

  

  Smashing pumpkins old school... back in the 60/70s you could buy M80s .... lot more simpler and easy plus the bang is alway impressive...
• thavoice

  Belly35;1526726 wrote:Smashing pumpkins old school... back in the 60/70s you could buy M80s .... lot more simpler and easy plus the bang is alway impressive...

  Hell, can you imagine doing that now?
  
  We always make fun of my brother and his friends. They blew up the neighbors mailbox with a worksbomb in like the late 80's. They stood and watched it happen. Cop came out, and they just agreed to pay for a new one. Imagine they would have been labeled terrorists now!
• I Wear Pants

  OP sounds like an asshole.
• said_aouita

  

  Belly35;1526722 wrote:Those are Witches ball .... keeps Witches away

  wutever. they were aka yard balls to us.
  
  Witches ball sounds stupid.
• thavoice

  GoChiefs;1526721 wrote:We would do this to my neighbor, but replace it with a burnt out bulb.

  Ah, nice touch!
  
  Good to see you went the extra mile.
• BRF

  

  Fab4Runner;1526624 wrote:
  Smash your own pumpkins if you feel the need.

  
  I agree.