Halloween 1984! NYPD vs. the Brooklyn shaving-cream gang | WABC-TV Vault

On Oct. 31, 1984, the NYPD was ready to take on Halloween hooligans using helicopters with floodlights and cops on the beat.
WABC reporter Will Spens talked to Assistant Chief Robert Colangelo in Brooklyn, who told him that the cops were ready for shaving-cream-spreading teen gangs, cemetery-vandalizing ghouls and other mischievous characters who go bump in the Gotham night.
However, that wasn't enough to stop "a roaming gang of Brooklyn shaving cream spreaders," as Spens brilliantly put it.
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[@samuelgriffin9364]

Halloween in New York City has changed completely for sure

[@samuelgriffin9364]

Halloween 1984 memories

[@daisysalazar9316]

Man:”the costumes should allowed the little monsters to BREATHE”
2020:”Sorry that ain’t happing this year”

[@johnygunnzz]

BoroPark Brooklyn we use to roll 30-40 deep in the early 90's its nothing like it use to be RIP Halloween...

[@adm712]

Brooklyn Halloween 1984-White kids out in the street spraying shaving cream and throwing eggs.
Brooklyn Halloween 2021-Asian kids staying inside, spraying shaving cream, throwing eggs on X Box live.

[@brianjschumer]

Bay Ridge Brooklyn 2022..Muslim kids, sitting home, making believe they are MMA fighters, Sheepshead bay Brooklyn 2022, Russian kids, wondering how to get a black market Mercedes in from Europe..

[@m0L3ify]

0:40 I heard that as "to combat any people who want to pray on those people" 😂

[@SAMSONDODGEPRODUCTIONS]

Imagine being one of those kids and just stumbling upon this 40 years later

[@Traction311]

At the time, they were considered punks by parents. Funny how we are fondly looking back on this now.

[@holdenmcgroin9774]

Life was tame back then. Shaving cream and eggs is not that bad compared to today. I got hit with an egg back in 1982. Better than getting hit by a rock.

[@castle3267]

…. I think you’re in a bad neighborhood buddy, I don’t even get eggs or TP let alone rocks

[@holdenmcgroin9774]

@@castle3267 Flip side is that I grew up tough. I went from 140lbs to 185lbs in one year and I begged my father for weights and I got them. No one bullied me in high school after that.

[@aztecaguzman4298]

We do this in Chicago too

[@Rhythm973]

Would’ve been a lot different in other neighborhoods lol.

[@EpicCheese765]

He took that kids shaving cream. Literally 1984

[@DAREDEVILBKLYN]

Boy was it fun !

[@lauramscott9252]

I was only three months during this time, LOL!

[@user-id1kq2ip3l]

Remember the days of kids carrying eggs and shaving cream those days are gone

[@artelmiller642]

LOL i remember after school how eggs would be flying from all four directions literally, and the school that i was going to was p.s.103 on carpenter ave in the bronx, i had some great times there along with some awsome friends👍

[@blazayblazay8888]

LITERALLY WHAT “WILDING” WAS BUT AWWW IT’S SO CUTE WHEN THEY DO IT

[@Brianmck16]

Everything is racial 🙄

[@edgar3465]

We spray shaving cream. You spray bullets.

[@blazayblazay8888]

@@Brianmck16 YOUR MOTHER’S RACIALIZED

[@castle3267]

Kids were… okay they still are weird but a different kind of weird you know?

[@JonSuderman]

Gangs of New York

[@Anonymous_Prole]

A more innocent time.

[@user-cu6sd3iz7r]

KAITY TONG WAS HOT BACK IN THE DAYS!

[@Thirthton]

Good clean fun...

[@thunderousapplause]

just listen to Keith Olbermann's testament to Will Spens. I'm sorry he was unable to get treatment for his mental illness. I would guess it was schizophrenia. He was a tortured genius.