>>3933Everyone with land to spare is too worried about getting sued these days. Someone tripping and breaking their arm can mean losing everything. Even if they signed a release form it's easy enough for a lawyer to argue it isn't legally binding. Even if you win in court you're still out several thousand dollars because you had to pay the lawyer to defend you. Most farmers just prefer to avoid the headache.
Never mind the fact that a lot of people don't respect the land anymore and throw trash everywhere or set things on fire for no reason.
I really miss community events like that too. We set-up shop for 2 years in the old local post office. It was really cool. I got to crawl around in the old tubes that ran around the building just under the high ceiling. It had one way mirrored windows you could look down to the floor through. Every little bit it the tube would open up into a little office type area where they had a little desk and a place to stretch out. It was how management spied on employees before they had security cameras.
It had a huge old bell tower as well. We climbed up there the first night and rang the bell for probably the first time in 40+ years. I wonder if it's still up there. It's massive and probably worth a ton of money now.
Halloween is like a neutered holiday now. I feel bad for the children that have to 'celebrate' it by riding in their parent's car going from church to church to get those little pathetic excuses for candy bars. When I was little a lot of people gave away homemade candy and sweets. But everyone stopped doing that by the time I was a teenager because of the bullshit stories about people poisoning children.
I wonder if the teenagers now know about egging houses. On Halloween weekend back then all the local asshole teachers already knew the deal. They weren't going to have a mailbox by morning and their house was going to be covered in eggs.