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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081030/ap_on_re_us/devilish_detroit

It's my favorite time of year...that Michigan tradition, where the night before Halloween, aka Devil's Night! We get to burn down Michigan cities, throw eggs, key cars, and do all kinds of other bad things...oh yeah!

But looks like we have vigilante watch groups are gonna be out this year....oh no Sad

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

Homer: All right, men. It's time to clean-up this town!
Skinner: Meaning what exactly?
Homer: You know, push people around, make ourselves feel big.

Kent Brockman: Well, what do you say to the accusation that your group has been causing more crimes than it's been preventing?
Homer: Oh, Kent, I'd be lying if I said my men weren't committing crimes...
Kent Brockman: ...Well, touch�.

wondobern · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Location: Yangjae2Dong

Ah, Detroit, Motwon! My birthplace: where the weak are killed and eaten!

I served a church on the west side for my vicarage year (internship), and recall in preparation for devil's night, we weren't allowed to put any trash in the alley bins the week prior, because they would be lit on fire on devil's night (I forget what the fine was if you were caught, something ridiculously expensive). So, we're all sitting there with a week's worth of garbage in our homes, along with the businesses!

Also, one lady I knew had her house burned down on devil's night, while the firemen literally just stood there and watched it burn down, because they had mistaken it for a crack house.

Happy All Hallowed Eve everyone, as well as Reformation Day!

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I grew up in Michigan, and my first HALLOWEEN (i.e. Devils Night the night before) out of Michigan, I drove my car to Arizona...I was asking people if there was a decent place to hide my car for Devil's Night, and people thought I was out of my mind.

Shortly thereafter, after asking about a half dozen different people from a half differnet states, I found out that DEVIL'S NIGHT was unique to MICHIGAN.

Ah, Devil's Night and euchre...oh, how I miss thee.

Illysook · Joined: 30 Jun 2008

Gee, at least we Buckeye's don't PLAN our riots!

asylum seeker · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Location: On your computer screen.

I first heard of Devil's Night in the movie 'the Crow'. I had no idea it was real though. Shocked

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

'The Crow'? Is it Michigan-based? I never heard of that movie...

peppermint · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 4:06 pm Post subject:

I remember hearing about that as a kid. All our US networks came out of Detroit when I was little, and I've gotta say, the US seemed like a much safer place when we started getting the news from Boston instead. Wink

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject:

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

I remember 1984...incidently, the Detroit Tigers won the World Series that same year.

I recall Detroit being burned down when the Tigers won, but nowhere near as it was getting burned down every DEVIL's NIGHT each year.

The 1980s were great for that...I remember attending university in the early 1990s and my university played a rivalry, and cars were flipped over and burned, and rioting in the street...the National Guard was called onto our campus, and it made international news.

Michigan...ya gotta love it.

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

^
was that MSU? that sounds like something that goes down at MSU.

as much as people hated devil's night, i enjoyed watching about it on tv when i was little.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

pidgin · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Location: Seoul

One year (when I was at EMU) I saw an Ohio plate on a car in the parking lot of an apt. complex....across the Huron river from a local watering hole.

Anyways, I partied with some friends for a few hours, (the OH-MI football game was on, so parties were everywhere). In the morning, we'd noticed that someone had rolled that car three or four times until it tumbled down the gulley and sat halfway in the river 50 yards below the lot!!

I was concerned as 2 miles away sat my car (with OH plates).

Several months later (as if karma was revealing itslef only to me) some uni. friends and I made the trip to Sandusky, OH (Cedar Point) to ride some rollercoasters on acid.

After we got there and were spliffing in the parking lot, we noticed a MI plate with a bumper sticker that read: "Happiness is crushed buckeye nuts."

After flipping out in the park for a while we walked back to our car to feel 'mary' again, and we couldn't help but notice. Shocked

That MI car had been rolled over and slid back into the same parking spot so that it was parked absolutely upside down. Laughing