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Parents of a Hingham, Mass. teen are suing the town's high school for disciplining their kid after he used #AI to write a report.
The US Dept. of Transportation is fining American Airlines $50 million dollars for their mistreatment of wheelchairs and wheelchair users. #disability
There are 12 days until the US election (and 7 days until #Halloween). #uspol
NB: Curious to know how many of you don't get trick-or-treaters, too -- or if any of you get a big bunch of them every year.
@gbhnews We live on a county road in a rural area. The only trick-or-treaters we get are our grandkids.
@adhdeanasl Ha, that was my experience growing up on a dirt road out in the country! Our nearest neighbors were a mile away. God bless that family, they allowed my parents to take my brother and me to their house the year I was four and knock on their door to "Trick or Treat." They gave my brother and me candy and presents. We didn't have a ton of money, so I went as a ghost with an old bed sheet costume. Decades later I remember how I excited I was. Huge deal for a country four year old!
the houses are just far enough away from each other that trick or treaters head over to the neighboring neighborhood for that.
@gbhnews We live on a dead-end dirt road, so no trick-or-treaters here. (Trick-or-treating is actually a scheduled thing here that's held down in the main part of town, with the volunteer fire department involved.)
@gbhnews Our block has been throwing a Halloween Block Party every year since 2019. It gets bigger every year.
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We lived 40 years in a condo in Brookline. Never once in all that time did anyone ever come to our door. Not even from within the condo. After the first year we never bought candy. Now we’re in a small city in CO, and we get 40-50 kiddos in about 2 hours. Small urchins w/ parents in tow the first hour, then the older ones, and finally the middle- and high-school kids. We close it down before the college kids show up.
We’re rural, no trick-or-treaters ever. But we sometimes go to a friend’s neighborhood and bring candy to hand out at their house, where it’s a big costume-laden party with crowds galore.
@gbhnews We get between 50 - 80 and they're all ages. Not all of them have costumes but I don't care. If you knock on my door on Halloween, you get treats.
@gbhnews My brother in a medium-sized Maine town gets 100-200 per year (my father loves to count them). Here in Metro West we get… a dozen or so? It’s *hopping* about a block away, but something about the configuration of our block just doesn’t draw many groups away from the busy area
@gbhnews The block I live on in Somerville is Halloween Central — I have the data to prove that we hand out 800–900 pieces of candy and I'd estimate we get 1500–2000 people on the street over the course of the evening. Our neighbors report even higher candy distribution counts than ours. And people sometimes drive in from surrounding towns, which blows my mind.
@gbhnews We don't get any because we are blind, so never have lights on. If we actually wanted to hand out candy we'd make it known, but yeah. Kind of just anti-social. This year we have tabletop gaming to do anyway.
@gbhnews I usually get home too late for trick-or-treaters.
@gbhnews Haven't had a trick or treater visit in decades. I just have to eat the full size Snickers myself.
@gbhnews@mastodon.social We've tried giving out candy, but we didn't get anyone at the door, so we stopped trying.
@gbhnews No one came last year, so if we bought candy we'd probably have to eat it ourselves.
@gbhnews Growing up I wanted to always be the house that gave out the big candy bars. So now we are known as the big candy bar house and most kids stop by. We usually go through between 35-50 bars on Halloween. I live on a main st near my towns downtown area so we get a ton of foot traffic. I absolutely love Halloween so we have a blast.
@FindingHobbes me too. when a kid gets an upsize surprise -- they're expecting something good but get more than they expected -- the look on their face is just priceless. Wouldn't miss it.
@gbhnews I have yet to hear anything about the case involving the teen in Hingham who was disciplined for using AI that makes me feel the least bit sympathetic for the teen or their family.