My experience of trick-or-treating has been a) going along myself, in Hong Kong, where it's by no means a standard thing but worked pretty well for us as we had lots of Americans in our estate who got really into the decorating and so on, and b) giving out sweets to local kiddies in Dublin.
In both countries it seems like the razor blades/poison issue just hasn't occurred to either parents or Evile Neighbours (and in fairness, it seems like that never happens, anywhere). We seem to get fewer trick-or-treaters every year, but that could be due to the time a few years back when my boyfriend dressed up as a werewolf and terrified a five-year-old Batman to the point where he left his sweets behind. Maybe word's gotten out.
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Date: 2012-10-18 01:22 pm (UTC)In both countries it seems like the razor blades/poison issue just hasn't occurred to either parents or Evile Neighbours (and in fairness, it seems like that never happens, anywhere). We seem to get fewer trick-or-treaters every year, but that could be due to the time a few years back when my boyfriend dressed up as a werewolf and terrified a five-year-old Batman to the point where he left his sweets behind. Maybe word's gotten out.