Store not allowing purchase of eggs by minors over Halloween

[anon75430791]

If you criminalize eggs, only criminals will have eggs.

What about those kids who want to keep eggs handy for self defense on Halloween?

They will be left to fend for themselves with nothing but rocks, aluminum baseball bats and garbage can lids.

[zathras]

Eggs don’t damage homes. People damage homes.

[Mausium]

Hopefully to a time when kids don’t egg houses. Doubt that’ll come, though.

[wrecksdart]

For us it was cars. Houses make for boring egg-targets. Even better: when the road-ragers see that they’ve taken egg-fire, sometimes they will vault their stupendous SUV into a forest in order to try and chase down the perp-egg-trators. Which makes for quite the hijinks.

[anon33466019]

I’d be nonplussed if my cat got egged, but that’s why I carry super soakers loaded with lemon juice and hot sauce.

(Plus I can use it on my burritos)

[anon34812172]

I’ll stand across the yard in goggles & a plastic smock and hold my partially unwrapped burrito up so you can shoot it. It’ll be fun.

[miasm]

@beschizza

kids, you know what to do

Hide in a large clay pot until everyone has gone home and change the signage?

[Mausium]

You still sound rather proud of yourself.

[wrecksdart]

@Mausium

You still sound rather proud of yourself.

That night, I threw an egg, one egg, from the top of a large berm out to the street, which was a good 40 yards from me. Had to arc the egg way up high to get all that distance, and while I had no expectation of hitting anything, I did hit the passing Mr. SUV and he did lurch into the swale and then up the berm and into the forest where we were fleeing, ostensibly to run us down for putting egg on his shiny large vehicle.
So yes, I DO still have the sweet, sweet satisfaction of watching that egg come down, some…30+ years later. Has my car been egged or shot with a paintball gun or just damaged by persons unknown before, during, or after that point? Yes. Did I feel the need to assault someone over it? Nope. So between Johnny Law doing his best to lecture us to not throw eggs as he was pelted with them and Mr. SUV’s deeply flawed sense of justice (or vengeance?), I’m pretty okay about the whole egg thing.

But wow. What. A. Throw. Fucken egg-toss champions would weep to see it.

[shmello]

…and this is why we can’t have nice things.

[wrecksdart]