Mischief night

Never heard about it until I saw "The Crow". Still don't understand it.

Never heard of mischielf night in my part of SW MI growing up...  Teen vandalism was more random than that.  There is, or was, a "Devil's Night" in Detroit aparantly, but it was a little bit different than what you experienced.  It was a night of arson.  Basically, people would light vacant (hopefully) homes on fire.  It has been fought by an "Angel's Night" movement in which groups of people patrol their neighborhoods to prevent a firestorm.

Duke said:

The0retical said:

It was a thing when I was growing up in Eastern PA.

What part of eastern PA?  I was in Chester County at Mischief Night age.

Plus, while it seemed perfectly natural at the time (and still does), having to actually write out the words "throwing dried, shelled corn kernels to rattle house windows" in order to explain it makes it seem kind of unexplainable.

Southern Monroe County in the foothills of the Poconos. Typically it would involve lots of toilet paper, some soap on windows, flaming poop bags, maybe some eggs. Sometimes going as far as to rearrange peoples Halloween displays into dirty positions. Typical teenager stuff.

There was always a group that would smash mailboxes but, after a few incidents one or two involving the police and some welded mailboxes that hurt a few pretty badly, that basically faded away.

a thing around philly...  never did it.. but it was mostly TP and shaving cream type foolery.    

You know.. fill a mailbox with shaving cream.. 

Never heard of it in Cincy, Knoxville or here in Texas. 

You northeasterners are weird folks.

It was called Goosey night here in Northern N.J. Kids throwing eggs at houses and TPing whole houses.

Goosey Night (plural Goosey Nights) (around New York City) A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.

Growing up in the Detroit suburbs we always referred to the night before Halloween as Devil's Night.  As kids we rang door bells and ran away, soaped windows, and TP'd things.  Wax instead of soap and eggs were the worst I saw things get a few times in my neighborhood.  Moving away in my early twenties before returning in my mid-30's all I heard about in Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, and Akron, were how Detroit burned every Devil's Night.  

On Halloween morning this year I saw little coverage of any shenanigans on Devil's Night.  One Detroit news source reported on fires while the other didn't.  My kids know nothing of any night of mischief on the night before Halloween in Detroit now.   

I've heard about Detroit, but there was never any sort of mischief night deal in Minnesota as far as I know.

I always park cars inside around Halloween. shiny happy persons see it as permission to ruin other people's E36 M3. Hate it.  

I’ve never heard of anything other than going out Halloween night with eggs and shaving cream.