Cops Want Stores To Stop Selling Eggs On Halloween

[matcom]

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Somerville Police are telling shopkeepers to pull their eggs off their shelves on Halloween Day to avoid an onslaught of mischief.

“We would ask the voluntary cooperation of the retail stores not to sell eggs,” said Capt. Paul Upton. “We’re asking as many of the retailers to pull eggs from the shelves on Halloween Day.”

Upton said Halloween mischief has been relatively low over the last few years and he wants to keep it that way. Years ago, grocery store employees would sell cartons of eggs to youngsters intent on inflicting the most damage to neighborhoods. Now he’s taking a more proactive approach.

“Unlike a lot of other things, eggs can do damage,” Upton said. “We’re trying to get the merchants to think. It’s a little bit of civic responsibility.”

But store owners said they wouldn’t comply, saying they’d do their own surveillance.

“I don’t think so,” said McKinnon’s market owner Jim Kontos. “I’ll be careful as to who I’m selling too. I don’t think its fair to us. I know who my customers are and who buys them. I keep my eyes open.”

Abid Sheikh, whose brother owns Highland Market, said he’ll just be careful who he sells the egg cartons to next Tuesday.

“I’ll be watching on Halloween Day,” he said.

http://www2.townonline.com/somerville/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=601407

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. But...What if we want a quiche??

:shrug:

[Richardo]

2. So does Patricia Heaton

[jobycom]

3. When eggs are outlawed, only outlaws will have eggs.

[matcom]

4. eggs are as bad a cigarettes

:hide:

[jobycom]

7. Isn't a shame that you can bring a screaming kid into an Olive Garden

but you can't smoke in one?

[_testify_]

5. Dumb cops.

We bought our eggs the week before and put them in the closet, so they'd be nice and ripe for pelting strangers.

I have since renounced the activity we called 'bombing'.

[Kat45]

6. When I lived in Somerville, my windshield was egged.

But it wasn't as bad as the year my tire was punctured.

[jobycom]

8. I got drive-by paintballed once. Those guns look real!!

Luckily by the time it had registered on me, it was over, so I never had that moment of shear panic. And painballs wash off cars really well.

[Heddi]

9. Of course! Not like anyone will buy eggs, then, on the 30th

:eyes:

yes, egging and TP'ing and other forms of vandalism sucks---and this isn't some high-n-mighty 30 year old speaking (well, it is...to a degree). Even when I was a wonton youth I thought that vandalism sucked and never took part in it.

BUt I find it quite hard to believe that any youth who would buy eggs on 10/31 for eggings wouldn't be clever enough to buy them on the 30th if he/she found out that eggs were prohibited on 10/31.

And what about the rest of the year---I know that amongst my trapezoid of friends, eggings and TP'ing weren't activities that were held only on Halloween---homecoming night, some random Thursday, any day that ends in 'y' were just as good of days as any to engage in reckless teenage boredom fixers.

Worst "prank" was when some kids went to the beach and loaded up the back of a pickup truck with sand--I mean TONS of sand, and drove it to some guys house and dumped it on the lawn. Didn't even know the guy. Had no idea if he was a saint or a sinner. He just had a house, and a yard, and it was night time. What a complete pain in the ass it was to clean THAT up. Especially since the sand was wet....

[Midlodemocrat]

10. Too late. Mischief Night is the night before.