How Trunk-or-Treat Took Over American Suburbs: Rather than go door-to-door, a lot of kids these days get their Halloween candy by going car-to-car.

@Sgt_choke_n_stroke @HiddenLayer555 Yes, the article says so. But the reasons churches started running them is different to why they are becoming more popular now.

As the article discusses.

I did need reader mode to unbreak the article, but that is webdesign in 2025 for you.

What kind of sad childhood involves celebrating Halloween in an office parking lot.

think about how miserable their lives must be if their parents are so paranoid they think trick or treating in their affluent neighborhoods is 'dangerous'.

i live in one of the safest cities in the country. i notice that new residents who move here... put up ring cameras all over their properties. if you ask them why they will tell you it's because there is so much crime here and they have to protect themselves from home invasion etc. what they really do is just post racist/paranoid screencaps anytime a black person walks by their house to their facebook community pages.

it's insane how delusional people are and how they are using tech to dig their delusions deeper and deeper.

as someone who grew up a shitty neighborhood: these are godsends for halloween. very few people can afford to give away candy in shitty neigborhoods so we always did halloween by traveling through affluent neighborhoods growing up.

fast forward another 2 decades and my nephews/nieces grew up doing it in parking lots and convention halls; removing the need for hundreds of cars to slowly, wastefully, and dangerously escort trick-or-treaters with thousands of oblivious sugar spiked children walking around in view-obstructing costumes.

minivans can do permanent life-altering damage to an 6 year old even if it's only creeping along at 5 miles per hour; ask me how i know.

Well in the US nowadays, People will shoot you for ringing their door bell. It's all the freedom, you know?

I looked it up, seems like some kind of fundraising club for low-ranking enlisted soldiers.

Junior Enlisted are classified as E-1 through E3. They are Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Sailors who are either in their first few years of enlistment, or people who achieved a higher rank, but through incompetence or illegal activity were busted down in rank as punishment.

Each branch does it their own way, but I can speak to the Air Force. If you have a pulse and know how to say yes sir you automatically go up in rank with time. Until you reach E-3. To get to E-4 (a Sargent of some sort in most branches) you must pass a test and be selected by a committee. It's not difficult to do, but it's really hard to do it your first time testing. So E-1 through 3 are considered junior because it's assumed they don't have much experience yet, and very little responsibility.

These became popular in the 2000s as a direct result of a lot of Stranger Danger propaganda.