DEVIL'S NIGHT

This article is about the Michigan cultural phenomenon. For the album by rap group D12, please see Devil's Night (album).
Devil's Night is a name associated with October 30, the night before Halloween, particularly in and around Detroit, Michigan.
Devil's Night is a longstanding Detroit tradition predating World War II, with anecdotal incidents occurring as early as the 1930s. Traditionally, youths in the Detroit area engaged in a night of criminal behavior, which usually consisted of acts of vandalism (such as egging the homes of neighbors) in retaliation for real or perceived wrongs, or simply for the sake of the crime itself. In the early 1970s, the vandalism escalated to more severe acts such as setting vacant houses on fire. As these activities increased and the tradition gained notoriety, individuals including Detroit-area business owners, purportedly took advantage of Devil’s Night vandalism to collect on insurance policies by committing arson on their properties (i.e., setting fire to their own cars and/or businesses)[citation needed]. These incidents were blamed on Devil's Night hooligans and added to the notoriety of the night.
Beginning in the 1970s, the crimes became more destructive in Detroit's inner-city neighborhoods, and included hundreds of acts of arson and vandalism every year. The destruction reached a peak in the mid- to late-1980s, with more than 800 fires set in 1984, and 500 to 800 fires in the three days and nights before Halloween in a typical year.
In 1995, Detroit city officials organized and created Angel's Night on and around October 30. Each year as many as 40,000 volunteers gather to patrol neighborhoods. Additionally, youth curfews as early as 6 p.m. are instituted on the days before Halloween. Since then, there has been a decline to 20 fires per day in the days around Halloween.
Devil's Night was chronicled in sociologist Ze'ev Chafets' 1991 book "Devil's Night and Other True Tales of Detroit," and fictionalized in the 1994 movie The Crow. The burning of an abandoned house featured in the movie "8 Mile," which starred Eminem and was set in his hometown of Detroit, and his rap group D12 named their first album after the night. While the term is still well-known by Michigan residents, the news media in Detroit currently refer to the event as Angel's Night to promote the efforts of the volunteers.
Devil's Night is now becoming popular in Ireland (where it is more commonly called Mischief Night), where youths are out of school for the week around Halloween. Many of the nights running up to October 31 are used by youths to commit acts of vandalism.
The name Devil's Night or Mischief Night is used by criminals in the eastern U.S. and Canada, although the acts are generally less destructive and violent than those committed in Detroit. A survey done in the United States shows the comparative popularity of various names for this night around the country.

SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR THE NIGHT!

I was never aloud to participate in Devil's Night but then I never wanted to. I new a lot of kids that would and I hear about all the distruction and I just thought they we're just plain down right mean.


Believe in ghost I do....that's right I've nevr seen one but I have seen plenty of signs of one. The one I see and hear is my father...I had a crytal clear lead bell and still do sitting onmy dresser when my husband asked me to marry him and the pindlem in it started to move in circles real fast but it never hit the glass. I just looked on amazed. That bell was shaped like a wedding bell and I do believe it was my father giving consent to the wedding. Call me nuts if you want. My mother even rented the house he lived in out to someone he never liked and the doors in that house we being slamed shut this went on for a month and the minute this person moved out it quit...so that's why I believe it's my father....I miss him greatly he passed away in 1982 I was very young to lose a father.
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SOME BREAKING NEWS

Kentucky Fried chicken has announced they are going to be transfat free. Heath Move http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/KFCOnDietBandwagon%20.aspx?GT1=8618
What do you know it's still greasy but I guess you just cut down where ever you can.
KFC has been through a lot bad plublicity but I gotta tell you something I know someone who does indeed work for KFC and the chickens aren't tortured in fact if you happen to find a broken leg or wing it's strictly do to the way it's processed after they're dead. In fact sometimes it happens when they deep fry them themselves. Just good old finger licking good.

Gotta tell you this one: We were gone all weekend had a great time but we stopped off at some roadside private motel to spend the night and the clerk at the desk tried to charge my husband 250.00 for the room. The clerk told him he had a pool and a jakuzzi, room service and a whole lot more available to him he tried to explain to the clerk we only used the room for 6 hours to sleep (lolol) but the clerk said it didn't matter it still was all availble to us...so he wrote out a check to the clerk and the clerk looked at it and said hey this is only for 50.00...my husband told the clerk yeah I know I charge 200.00 for someone to sleep with my wife....the clerk backed up and said but I didn't sleep with her...he said to the clerk but she was availble it doesn't matter.......

Good night everybody after a couple of more margaritta's I plan on being a little devilish myself.......hehehehehehe........sweet dreams!