User talk:Berdinelavoy

Wow, this article is pretty accurate to what I remember growing up and enjoying Devil's night. I bet most people don't know how the arson fire's evolved?

So let me tell you. My friends and I did all we could to convince our mom's to let us out that night. That was before the fires got popular. Anyway I was 12 or 13 my first Devil's Night OMG what fun it was. Egging cars, waxing (not soaping) windows. You couldn't get wax off easily. Those were the days before Fantastic or Simple Green. Anyway, the older kids would drag the metal trash cans to the middle of the alleys and start them on fire. Man did that look like fun, and it was so we did it too. You could walk down the main roads and passing the alleys see loads of trash cans lit up in the middle of the alley. It was pretty thrilling for crazed 13 year olds that we were. Well the city decided to modernize the trash collecting system in Detroit one year basically eliminating the trash cans by replacing them with 3 yard dumpsters. Hell that wasn't going to stop them so we started pushing them to the center of the alley and starting them on fire. Whoa! What a difference. Anyway some kids crazed and lazy didn't bother to move the dumpsters like we did and started them on fire right next to the garages that they were up against. Back then even thought the city was 50 or 60% black we rarely saw black kids out. Anyway they caught on and all the abandoned houses were in their neighbor hoods. So that's how it started, straight from the horses mouth of a kid that grew up there. Fortunately I escaped from Detroit years ago to Los Angeles but I still cherish those twisted memories.

Devil's Night
Wow, this article is pretty accurate to what I remember growing up and enjoying Devil's night. I bet most people don't know how the arson fire's evolved?

So let me tell you. My friends and I did all we could to convince our mom's to let us out that night. That was before the fires got popular. Anyway I was 12 or 13 my first Devil's Night OMG what fun it was. Egging cars, waxing (not soaping) windows. You couldn't get wax off easily. Those were the days before Fantastic or Simple Green. Anyway, the older kids would drag the metal trash cans to the middle of the alleys and start them on fire. Man did that look like fun, and it was so we did it too. You could walk down the main roads and passing the alleys see loads of trash cans lit up in the middle of the alley. It was pretty thrilling for crazed 13 year olds that we were. Well the city decided to modernize the trash collecting system in Detroit one year basically eliminating the trash cans by replacing them with 3 yard dumpsters. Hell that wasn't going to stop them so we started pushing them to the center of the alley and starting them on fire. Whoa! What a difference. Anyway some kids crazed and lazy didn't bother to move the dumpsters like we did and started them on fire right next to the garages that they were up against. Back then even thought the city was 50 or 60% black we rarely saw black kids out. Anyway they caught on and all the abandoned houses were in their neighbor hoods. So that's how it started, straight from the horses mouth of a kid that grew up there. Fortunately I escaped from Detroit years ago to Los Angeles but I still cherish those twisted memories.