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     Earlier in the last century, Halloween was a night when children（usually boys）went around the neighborhood and played tricks on their neighbors. Their tricks were more like practical jokes than vandalism（恶意破坏）. For example, these boys （called trick-or-treaters） might lift an outdoor toilet off its foundation and move it to someone else's yard, or they might remove a screen door from its joints and leave it on the owner's roof. Such tricks required skill and planning, and the victims were usually neighbors or relatives. In those days, Halloween was a night when teenage tricks were tolerated by the community.
     Today, the Halloween tricks have turned into destructive vandalism, such as cutting tires and breaking windows. These kinds of actions require no skill or intelligence. In addition, instead of the small gifts — an apple or a piece of cake — meant to be given in exchange for protection from practical jokes, trick-or-treaters demand bagfuls of candies from numerous people, many of them strangers. But the most alarming and annoying aspect of the new Halloween involves evildoings in the worst way, including such criminal acts as inserting pins into candies and apples. Thus Halloween has been transformed into an event, not of harmless fun, but of greed（贪婪）, vandalism, and even terror.