Egg-throwing night across Gloucester
Eggs and stones were being thrown at houses all across Gloucester on Wednesday night as youths hit the streets in force for Halloween.
Police officers had to attend several homes across the city to reassure worried residents.
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Egg-throwing incidents happened across Gloucester last night
Egg-throwing was reported in Overbury Road, Bloomfield Road, Lanett Road, Emerald Close and Lanham Gardens. Stones were thrown in Upton Street and Hatherley Road.
The worst incident was when a young teenage boy was spotted smashing the window of an abandoned Vauxhall Astra car at about 7.20pm along Sudeley Way, in Tuffley.
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Police say it was a relatively quiet night. A spokesman said: "The vast majority of people behaved responsibly. However, there was a series of 'egging' incidents and while these may not seem serious to some they have caused disruption and distress to the victims.
"We have provided reassurance to the victims and will be looking to identify those responsible where possible."
Comments
by MrGarnet
Thursday, November 01 2012, 6:38PM
“Bring back the stocks.
Stop fugging about it is vandalism.”
by daveofglos
Thursday, November 01 2012, 6:01PM
“Despicable - fortunately no one called on me - the wet weather helped!”
by geraint2010
Thursday, November 01 2012, 4:26PM
“Nah I don't buy it Mike. I can't recall anything about Celts chucking rocks and eggs about. Trick or Treat took off in America in the 1950s and only arrived here in the 1980s - also from Wikipedia!”
by mikehibby
Thursday, November 01 2012, 3:20PM
“"....but all this has nothing to do with the hideous practice of "Trick or Treat" - only the Americans could have dreamt that one up!"
Sadly, we can't blame the yanks for this one. From Wikipedia....
"The tradition of going from door to door receiving food already existed in Great Britain and Ireland in the form of "souling", where children and poor people would sing and say prayers for the dead in return for cakes. Guising—children disguised in costumes going from door to door for food and coins—also pre-dates trick or treat, and is recorded in Scotland at Halloween in 1895, where masqueraders in disguise carrying lanterns made out of scooped out turnips, visit homes to be rewarded with cakes, fruit and money."”
by geraint2010
Thursday, November 01 2012, 2:23PM
“As a spooky ritual it has roots in Pagan times as a festival of the dead. Later the church Christianised it as "All Hallows Eve" and, in England, any Pagan association virtually disappeared after James I imposed "Guy Fawkes" as a national holiday in its stead. The Pagan festival did survive in Wales (Calan Gaeaf), Cornwall (Kalan Gwav) and more particularly in Ireland as "Samhain", but all this has nothing to do with the hideous practice of "Trick or Treat" - only the Americans could have dreamt that one up!”