This grubby act ruined Halloween for little kids looking to score candy

Halloween has come and gone, but a conversation has since emerged about Australia children (and teens) being greedier than ever and clearing out lollies left outside people’s homes.Many have pointed the finger at older children, who are typically unsupervised while trick-or-treating, and are said to take more than their fair share of treats and leave little to none for the younger kids.In a video posted to Instagram by radio host and mum-of-two Jacqui Felgate, Halloween’s “grub act” was put on full display.The footage was captured from a ring camera and showed a teenage boy casually walking up someone’s driveway with an empty Coles bag.He then stashes all of the lollies from an unattended bowl on the doorstep into the bag and races off across the lawn and down the road.Ms.Felgate’s caption read: “Can these older kids please stop stealing all the lollies?“I’ve been sent so many videos like this.

Give us a spell.”In the comments, people said that the same thing had happened to them last night.“I caught some older kids emptying my cauldron at 4:30 p.m., I’d literally just put them out because I was about to head off trick-or-treating with my small kids.The main perpetrator quickly ran off with his stash,” said one mum.“Just had a 10-year-old empty the entire bowl of lollies for himself and get back into his parents’ $100k car,” revealed another.“This ruined it for all the kiddos up in our area, too,” replied a third.

“These older hoons thinking this is okay.”The video was taken in the Melbourne suburb of Bulleen, but complaints about this trend have been coming in from all across Australia.In the Sydney Reddit thread, a user shared their disappointment after a similar incident.“My nephews, two and five, were very excited about getting dressed up and finding lollies in the neighbourhood,” the poster wrote.“Their parents had to work till 5:30pm, so they bought seven huge bags of lollies to keep out the front (enough to e...