Mischief Night - A How-To Guide and History Lesson | Renegade Cut
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Yikes, I was not expecting someone to unironically "f*** those kids" meme reply to this. Not in those words exactly, but someone came into the comments and said that children should be arrested for this and that we live in "an adult's world, not for children." How compassionate. You want to arrest children, potentially ruining their lives with juvenile prison (or tried as adults) for a harmless rite of passage? You think that is a proportional response? You think handing over children to the carceral system under almost any circumstance is a good thing? Ruining a twelve year old because an adult must pick up toilet paper from their lawn? Property laws more important than the well-being of children, huh? Jesus Christ.
Even a misdemeanor conviction, which you recommended, is too far. Misdemeanors can actually carry jail time. Do you really trust the carceral system to show restraint? Do you really trust armed police officers to never draw their weapons? Because they do. All the time. On children. Don't call the police on children having fun, even if you don't approve. They are CHILDREN.
Go f*** yourself, cop. You're not welcome here, for obvious reasons. If you're one of my patrons, drop your pledge. I don't want your money. Enjoy your shadow ban. Disgusting.
A lot of people literally need to be explained these kinds of consequences of calling the cops, need to get this contextualized, because it can be such an automatic response. It's sad, but the solution to this cultural issue is precisely a firmly worded explanation like this. I've had to make a similar lecture to my boomer parents.
@@moksound19my rule of thumb: Is this situation serious enough that a bystander getting shot by police would be worth it? Cuz there's a non-zero chance the first brown person the cops see will be killed, and if they clear that incredibly low bar, they might kill the person doing whatever thing you called about.
The answer is almost always "no. Walk away and mind your gd business."
Yeah, I'm more of the state of mind. Do what you do, and den Imma handle my biz.
Wow.
With some people, "call the cops" is their default response to anything they find annoying.
Please do not smash jack-o-lanterns. People, some of them children, worked hard as heck on them.
Would never smash but move it to a different spot, ghost pumpkin.
A good rule of thumb is “no permanent damage.”
(Never mind. You said it!)
Thanks for defending the jackolanters. I always was sad to see someone's hard work of carving smashed on the sidewalk. TPing is a pain to clean up but fun, decorative, and relatively harmless. I always felt it made the trees look spooky.
tfw you immediately recognize an alley street from your town in some random stock footage
Mischief night! *doxxs you*
thank you for telling the kids what's not cool to throw eggs at. one time a while back I was driving my dad's pickup truck and got egged and wasn't able to clean it off before the damage set in and I felt bad about it
I'm... not familiar with this practice? I grew up in Colorado, wasn't homeschooled, was never hugely popular but rarely entirely friendless, and 100% of this is news to me.
I don't think every region in the US participates. The first I ever heard of it was when I saw The Crow and I thought they'd made it up for the movie. Maybe they just don't do that kind of thing in the PNW where I am either? I mean, people would do Halloween pranks, but not specifically on the night before. I feel like I would've heard of it as a kid, I was certainly friends with hellions who would've participated.
I think I didn't hear about this until sometime around middle school in the early 2000s as a concept. I think it was mostly on the topic of this Holocaust we were doing. I believe it was on the subject of Kristallnacht. And we were shown this after school special movie from the late 80s or early 90s about these teens that went out on mischief night and did a bunch of pranks, with a good chunk of them being anti-semetic. I can't remember the name of this movie, was way too long ago and I can't remember the title.
It's defiantly more of a East Coast/Midwest US tradition. Halloween & Mischief night were banned in several counties of the further-West states due to Evangelicals thinking the tradition too 'Catholic' or 'nonwhite'
@@paxtenebraei'm also in the pnw and i was raised in a church full of people who vehemently despised halloween and i'm sure they would've mentioned mischief night too just to get points against it if it was a thing here
@@paxtenebraealso PNW and have never heard of this before. (btw, username a ref to PAX? ^_^)
For me, every night is Goosey Night.
So don't smash people's pumpkins.... But what if I carve my own pumpkins and leave them there...
Not even smashed, you just come home from work and find a neatly carved pumpkin on your porch
That would be amazing.
Twisting the rules of Mischief Night. As someone named after a Faerie Queen, I approve. lol
Mystery pumpkins would be awesome!
One time me and my friend took a pumpkin from one house and then went to another house and gave it to a boy that was there. He was so excited 😆
I mean, donating jack-o-lanterns to your neighbors just sounds like a fun prank, no one gets hurt and maybe they appreciate having it around
A fun one I did in high school was drive around with a buddy the night before collecting For Sale signs out of people's yards, then that night we put them all out in yards of kids we knew. Like 4 signs in each yard.
Genius
I'm 34 and I've never heard of this holiday in my entire life until now
I think it's important to mention that Mischief Night is not necessarily a thing everywhere. I'm from Minnesota and I'd never even heard of Mischief Night or any other pre-Halloween celebration until I was an adult. This isn't to say that you shouldn't engage in any mischief making around Halloween, just that it's not an agreed upon practice everywhere so reactions may vary.
Same here, New Hampshire has to pick up the pace!
It's really funny to call this day something everyone collectively decided on because I don't think I've ever heard of anyone in my life doing something like this on this night.
I think we called it “hell night” in Boston when I was a teen in the 90s.
After about twelve or thirteen years old, mostly it was just some drinking and early mild drugs
Grew up in New Jersey in the 80's
Mischief Night was like an institution!
A right of passage. And awesome!!
Devils night (the only correct name for it! Fight me!) is my Anniversary! :)
I’m from the UK and I’ve never heard of this, wow.
Obviously not from the north of England. Mischief night was bigger than halloweeen or even bonfire night.
Mischief Night in my part of NW England was always November 4th, I think it had something to do with "bangers" (firecrackers in the US) being more readily available in the run up to Bonfire Night.
Goosey Night: "It is a pleasant autumn night, and you are a horrible goose."
We engage in mild amounts of mischief
It's called we do a little mischief
@@SpecialInterestShowjust a little bit. As a treat 😇
Anything called "Cabbage Night" isn't mischief, it's a smelly crime.
A fun and simple prank to play, especially in car dependent suburbs and if you have your driver's license, is "light housing."
Get in a car and drive to a neighborhood fancy enough to have roundabouts (but not one that is gated as that can get legally spicy). Put on the high beams and drive around and around the traffic circle shining light into nearby homes repeatedly. Don't speed for obvious legal reasons and do not play loud music, rev the engine, or honk the horn -a noise ordinance may land you with the police being called. Just go round in circles with the brights on. If you're not speeding and not making noise (outside of that of a car) there's nothing illegal about doing this (again, outside of a gated community where they might have private secuirty and can trespass you from the whole subdivision). Make a game of it with friends in other cars! See how many roundabouts you and your friends can hit up or how many times you can make it around each one before someone tries to stop you.
Pro tip: Do not do this on cul-du-sacs, as those are usually only on-way-in and one-way-out; that makes it hard to flee if someone comes out to complain or gives chase. Always keep your bearings on where you are in the neighborhood, especially those with only one entrance/exit back to a main arterial road. If security or even the police come to stop you, just say you "got turned around" (puns) looking for a friend's house.
That's fuckin stupid man
Renegade Cut is too sweet
When I was growing up in the UK we used to call these nights, “Rampages” and we would do them for fun every now and then instead of on a specific night.
Digging the new target demographic. Anyway, arz-onn comes later 🔥
I've never heard of mischief night. I just assumed that the night of Halloween after 10pm (when the little kids have finished trick'o'treating) was the agreed upon time for mischief like eggs
Geez i'm such a square. I've never even heard of this.
Wholesome, responsible advice.
I'm from Switzerland and know this as "Schulsylvester", last day before Christmas Hollidays. Goes back to around 1900. Sadly today it is prohibited in most places... It was so much fun as a kid 😞
I remeber having marching band practice on mischief night, some kids threw eggs at us
Who knew that Terry Pratchett was alive, well and patrolling the streets of Towson? 4:02
This is one of the most valuable channels on UA-cam.
Growing up outside Philly, of course I’ve always known about mischief night. When I moved to Austin and talked to friends about it, they had no clue what I was talking about.
I'm born and raised in Philly and Mischief Night is a right of passage.
Devil's Night 😈😈😈
I had no idea what to expect going into this (besides the usual quality), but I was not disappointed. Excellent work sir.
Goosey Night 🎉🎉🎉
Oof, “Mickey” night would definitely have a completely different meaning here in America 😬 wouldn’t have the vibe of light hearted mischief that’s for sure 🫣
“You only have so many childhood Halloween’s” in my case that number was 0. My mum believed trick or treating was begging and ‘a vulgar American import’. Though as someone who hates wearing fancy dress and doesn’t like sweets I don’t think I missed out on much.
Not really sure dressing up as murderous monsters really counts as "fancy dress". But sure, rationalize your shitty childhood however you like.
I'm an Aussie. Same story.
Your mom was wrong. It's not begging it's extortion. Beggars are polite
Same! My mum *hated* it and still kinda does. She regularly complains about how scary Halloween masks are.
We used to go "tic-tacking". This involved soap, toilet paper, and the most difficult preparation, securing some field corn and stripping the kernels off to throw at people's front doors. Those darned rural kids...
I grew up in Buffalo, New York. October 30 was “Beggers Night”, which wasn’t associated with mischief at all. At least, not in my neighborhood. It was another night for trick or treating, but mileage varied on which houses observed it. My parents personally didn’t allow it. When I was little, they told me that if I went out on Beggars Night, I couldn’t go on Halloween. By the time I was in my early teens, it seemed to have faded into obscurity. Again, this was in North Buffalo, so it might have had a more robust observance elsewhere.
A preemptive Misrule? (Extinct Xmas tradition that needs to come back).
I've never heard of this before.
I thought it was just me. I've never heard of this either.
This is an absolutely perfect video for you that I would have never expected. Something new to teach the niece and nephew ... ;)
I like cabbage night
I somehow never realized the term mischief night wasn't just another name for Halloween. I must just not have been cool enough growing up to get invited to go out pranking. Or maybe I just didn't live in any areas that participated. I always find it interesting to hear about a trend or common knowledge thing that I somehow missed growing up.
Hell yeah, Devil's Night
Who doesn’t love a little tomfoolery hehe
I only participated once, cutting bags of onions and sprinkling them in the roads around my street 😅 of course our nabors knew it was me
My mom was not impressed and I was grounded that Halloween
This channel is too good
A wholesome tradition!
Oh hey, this was fun. Thanks!
Awesome vid 🎉
I never realized this had a name. I’ve participated in it multiple times without realizing it. I have a fond memory of being at a sleepover birthday party near Halloween and late at night the adults woke us up, handed us each a roll of toilet paper, and lead us to their friend’s houses to TP.
I'm British and have never heard of this before
I didn't realize until watching this video that mischief night was a thing at all!! Thank you for giving the history of this event, and thank you for not supporting people smashing pumpkins. It always makes my heart hurt when i see that happen. Actually, I've never seen this sort of mischief happen the night before Halloween, I've only seen this stuff happen after like 10 pm on Halloween night itself-- people will go to parties and make a ton of noise and that makes a cover for the quote unquote ne'er-do-wells to work their mischief
In Germany we have a similar thing in the night from the 30th of April to the 1st of May.
i love the implication that, perhaps, there are nights for arson. this just happens not to be one of those nights.
I'm American, yet I've never heard of this.
This was so sweet :’)
Nice surprise video.
Yeah, I remember Devil's Night >:3 Detroit mentioned :D
Mischief night? Don't you mean Devil's night?
Well hold, I was really today years old when I figured out d12’s devil’s night is basically moving night…
Unrelated, my anniversary is mischief night 😈
I mispronounce “Mischievous” too!
So Leon just told us to think of the kids and not play with fire? I didn't see that coming, but I love it 😀
Never heard of mischief night.
Awesome! Thank you! 🎃👻🧟🔪👽🍁
Damn I wish the West Coast had mischief night, sounds fun! Switching neighbors decorations is excellent tomfoolery
Btw, another great video
I’ll never forget when my jack-o-lanterns were smashed :((( it happened more than once, actually, and usually the day after trick or treating so it wasn’t even in the name of Mischief night!
Fire it up! Fire it up! Fire it up!
From BC, never heard of a day-before-Halloween tradition, I don't think I've even seen it in shows or movies. It's always just been Halloween night.
That said, I always thought people setting off fireworks on Halloween was a universal thing, but apparently it's not even a Canada or PNW thing, it's specifically just BC, as a unique sort of Europe+China cultural overlap.
yeah, we here on renegade cut know how to have FuN 😎
I live in the UK and I have never heard of this or any of the supposed British names for it.
Yeah smashing pumpkins is a bit of a downer for the victims. I recommend adding "phantom pumpkins". Where did this pumpkin come from? Why is an among us crewmember carved into it? The world may never know.
I always forget you're from MD till you break out the bal-more. Great video. Also, if you REALLY want to smash things, a lot of people have uncarved pumpkins out front as well. As one of those people, I have 0 issues if some kids need to let out some adolescent rage on them.
2:35 ‘Mat’…’Gate’ 🧐
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Yeah, this never crossed the Rockies.
Any pumpkin-meets-street happens only after 8:30 on the 31st.
Can I play the class Soap Knight in my next D&D campaign?
I don't think I ever heard about this, at least I don't have any memories related to it. One more piece of proof that the other kids around me didn't think I was cool, I guess.
What about using make-up on lanterns and other decorations? Would that be good trick?
Halloween doesn't really get celebrated where I live, so this is all new to me. I'll add it to the list of reasons why Halloween is superior to christmas.
I live in Cali and I've legit never heard of this in my entire life. Is this like an East Coast thing?
No, it's all over. I mentioned Detroit, for example.
Lost their sense of wonder when they bought their first lawnmower. Lol
I'm 31 and never heard of this thing, huh (Germany)
Lol I wonder where they call it corn night
Arson isn't fun.
~Leon Thomas
Nice!🙀🎃¯\_(ツ)_/¯
First?
I grew up in New Jersey and called it goosey night, but different parts of NJ called it either cabbage night or mischief night. From what always understood, this is mainly practiced in two states, New Jersey and Michigan. Could be wrong, but that's what I've always heard.
Coming from the west coast I've never heard of this.
Never heard of this before.. I doubt this was anything more than a regional thing.