So, we were listening to the police scanner in the newsroom tonight and someone called because kids were ringing the doorbell and running away, repeatedly...
Where I grew up in northern York County, the houses weren't close enough together to make that particular prank practical, but we had other crummy things we did to our rural "neighbors."
The three that I remember were shooting things with paintball guns, swiping corn from local cornfields and randomly flinging it at people's front doors (we cleverly called that one "cornucopia") and stealing ceramic figurines out of people's yards.
So, listening to this police call tonight, as an adult, I'm mortified that I did this and I'd like to apologize to the lady somewhere in Kralltown whose pottery statue, like this one, that we stole.
And I'm wondering, what other York County prank traditions are out there? Not that we need to give the next generation any bad ideas; I'm mostly just wondering if we were as creative as we thought we were, or if this is a longtime rural pastime.
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