+726 Welcome to Belleville, Illinois where you are fined $100 if you trick-or-treat over the age of 12. Wow, that's just sad and stupid, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Is this true?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Aadly enough, it is.0

by Anonymous 13 years ago

that's messed up!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Absolutely no reason for this law.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I heard it's because the elderly, single moms, etc. are afraid of the older 'iffy' guys who come because they could easily be harmful. I think it should be like you can go as long as you have a legitimate costume on. And maybe like you can't be over 18 (unless legitimately going with a little sibling or something).

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You know what SHOULD be a law? Halloween always on last Friday of October, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's horrible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They tried to do that in claresholm Alberta to, but nobody actually got fined lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

sometimes, the silly laws the government comes up with makes me want to go ono

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I would go anyway

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How would they be able to differentiate ? Some teenagers look like little kids and some kids look like they could be over 13 . So yeah , give a $100 fine to an 8 year old boy and make him cry . SMH .

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I read it as find at first. I thought "oh cool" then I read it again and though "damn."

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"Hey! You! Seventh grader! Why are you trick-or-treating? Give me $100, bitch." Good job, Illinois.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So do they have police officers standing around asking random kids how old they are?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well I mean there comes a point when you have to realize that you may be a little old to go around asking people for candy...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But that age isn't 13

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I live there and no one actually gets fined. They don' t even get questioned about their age.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This guy asked me how old I was, and I told him I was ten, so he looks down at my costume and says, "Right.."

by Anonymous 13 years ago