About 40 mins from me a 7 year old was hit and killed by a car last night. The solution? News scaremongers parents about letting your kids walk at night at all. It's easier to just not go outside without being inside a car than is to imagine a world without cars.
Remove all sidewalks. Remove all walkable paths. Submit to the car. The car is salvation. The car is love.
I know it's wrong and I've only been to two, but I have an eternal fascination with drive-in movies.
pulling up to the community drive-in in 2 grassy trams, a half-dozen shared short-range electric cars, and assorted e-bikes
Here at Dahir Insaat, we put technology first.
e: Although, in fairness, they are pretty pumped abou— uh about, um— trains I think?
Dahir Insaat are the best shitposters
My favorite is their earthquake proof bed
about 40 mins
By which means of conveyance?
The car has you. It is in your mind. Controlling you.
Mostly churches where I'm at do this. They do this to try to get more kids into the church while furthering the narrative that trick-or-treating door-to-door is dangerous. It became popular around 2006.
Same here. Personally I would like to believe it's safer for a community to just take care of its kiddos. We shouldn't have a "disginated space" for a community holiday, that to me a failure.
Yeah this is pretty common, it's usually more of a church or social group thing than a walkability thing tho. When I was a kid, the downtown of our city of 1,500 people was perfectly walkable with nice sidewalks and closed streets for the night but the Baptist church still did this.
Yeah it's usually a replacement for Halloween where you can still give kids the candy they want but also control who is there and prevent SATANIC IMAGERY from infiltrating
There's literally witches and a Santa (rearrange the letters, I dare you) in the pictures! I'd never let my little Christian soldiers offer their souls in exchange for rainbow coloured fentanyl at such an event!
Shit like this makes me want to win the god damned culture war already and burn every anti LGBT and anti Pokémon church to the ground
My first experience with this was in rural areas where the houses are like a mile apart.
I guess that's technically not a walkable city, but its for different reasons than the term usually implies.
My town's population density is nearly 10,000 per square mile and the nearest grocery store is over a mile walk from my home. Zoning is a fuck.
These types of events in Utah are used to exclude non-mormon kids and make them feel like outsiders. Its the norm to do this and is used as a mechanism for recruitment to make people feel like they belong to a "community."
Yep, while trunk or treat has gone a bit mainstream I'm pretty sure it started in religious conservative communities who thought celebrating Halloween was satanic.
For sure, Mormons don't like to talk about it but back in the day they thought things like pinball machines and playing cards were made by the devil to temp children into gambling. You also get these type of people.
Mother fuckers going on about some fake ass 'War on Christmas' for decades to distract us from the real War on Halloween they themselves were waging
This past month I saw way more than the usual number of ads for "twelve foot tall" halloween decorations and such, and there's a part of me that's like "if the sightlines between your front yard and the nearest semi-walkable thoroughfare are so poor that your decorations need to be that tall to be visible, your neighbourhood sucks and you should move."
Counterpoint: it's a 12-foot tall skelington and that's just cool
I'm not sure that is really connected. Suburban sprawl is quite walkable for the purposes of trick oR treating where you are looking for houses. It is not walkable if you are trying to walk to a store or your job
I think it's more of a suburban paranoia thing than a walking thing. Surely nobody's going to put razor blades and fentanyl in the candy if they're in a church parking lot.
Suburban sprawl is quite walkable if you don't mind your child getting mowed down by the newest Hummer Electro (Silent edition). Like, American cars are already getting too big for the driver to actually see adults in, but with the latest announced models, i'm pretty sure you could run over a child and not even notice.
The schools where I live do trunk-or-treat like a week before Halloween. It's more intended as a social thing for the students and parents.
I don't think I've ever heard of this being done completely in lieu of traditional trick or treating though. Even the shithole vehicle-loving, anti-bike conservative suburb I grew up in still does trick-or-treat the old way. Then again the place was built in the 1980s so they have adequate sidewalks.
I've been to one of these. Definitely no substitute for actual trick or treating. Very different vibe. Feels more like a party. Still fun as a kid though.
my town just uses this for the little kids and they do it at like 2 in the afternoon
It's bad enough that the puritans who have run this country from day one are genocidal religious fanatics, but to add insult to injury, they have horrible taste too that has to be forced down us so-called 'nonconformists'.
