25 of the Best Pranks People Pulled on Trick-or-Treaters

Halloween is the only holiday where costumed children can run amok, clamor for candy and threaten to toilet paper someone’s house if their demands aren’t met. It’s understandable; we all need at least one day a year to go full-on sicko mode (it’s basically the tween version of The Purge). 

Unfortunately, some adult Redditors have also chosen Halloween as their full-on sicko mode day, and decided to turn “trick-or-treat” on its head, mercilessly pranking children for their own twisted pleasure. Here are some of the funniest acts of mischief they pulled on unsuspecting trick-or-treaters…