“Come on moderator...

Or are cretinous comments joking about child abuse now acceptable on this paper's website?”

“You should always reject haloween but embrace children, they are a great height”

“Some of them make a great effort and you should always reward the attractive children with sweets to ensure standards are maintained”

“I always give sweets to the kids that make the effort.
If you turn up on my doorstep with normal clothes and a plastic mask though, then I punch them in the face, not hard, just hard enough to teach them a lesson the lazy scroungers”

“Kids must find Halloween confusing. For most of the year people tell them not to accept sweets off strangers and then once a year they are told go and bang on that strangers door and ask them for sweets. :-)”

“i love halloween and i always stock up on chocolate and sweets ready to reward any trick or treaters that knock on my door - unfortunatley every year so far i have had such poor willpower that ive eaten all the said confectionary before the luckless trick or treaters turn up, and am still unable to fit through my front door !”

“i love halloween - it gives me an opportunity to stock up on chocolate and sweets ready to give to the trick or treaters when they knock on my door - however, every year so far, ive had such poor willpower that ive eaten all the confectionary before the luckless trick or treaters turn up, so all ive achieved is becoming a complete fat bloater that cant fit through my front door !”

“One would say that to fully understand evil and the dangers of Satan you must be able to recognise his ways, so I think we should all try Strippers, Booze and Drugs so we know what to look for, its the christian way and far less extreme than the method Catholic priests use to welcome young men to religion.
And far less risky than the followers of beards with special luggage

I believe Anne may be a follower of Satan and needs to be tested for witchcraft in the traditional manner, in a pond”

“Anne
Well if you'd read a bit better you'd realise that I was referring to trick-or-treating old dear (you must be to call me 'son' - cheeky)
An extreme corruption of an age-old traditions to make it all about greed and calories. How American

Interesting analogy though as we are certainly importing some of the worse pratices of certain countries”

“Its good that we now have more mention of Religion in our local paper, too long has there been little if any mention of the dangers of satan.

People will read this story and think, here we go again, the cousin lovers in the west country are back to the Wicker Man again but no, we all have a place for Jesus, I figure that as god is everywhere then Jesus can be in your magazine rack next to the sky remote, hiding in the toilet roll in your smallest room. Many of you may think the 'Old Greek' mentioned is the Kebab Shop in South Exeter, but its a language.

Thanks ThisisExeter for finally preaching to the masses about Jesus and the dangers of Satan, he's a naughty boy who surrounds himself with strippers, booze and drugs, and that sounds lovely”