[One_American]

We went out trick-or-treating with the purpose to build up a serious pile of good candy. Anyone who dared give us apples or pennies or anything else deemed 'bogus', their house was immediately subjected to an egging, shaving creaming, toilet papering, bar soaping of the windows, and/or flaming bag of fresh dog crap on the porch attack. That was standard operating procedure in my neighborhood.

[Willie Green]

Sounds pretty harsh, IMHO.
Perhaps my neighborhood was just a little friendlier.
We reserved those kind of pranks only for retribution against those few neighbors (and there were only a few) who we knew were crabby a--holes all year long. Yeah, there were many who were more skimpy than others with the goodies. But what the heck, that wasn't any reason to harass them. A freebie was still a freebie.

[jedwardtremlett]

I never engaged in any of that, myself : ) My mother would have invariably found out and I'd have been killed.

I DO remember one early halloween - this was when I was young enough to have my mom come with me - were we marched up to one house, and a lady was dressed as a witch in front of a plastic cauldron. And she was handing out pennies.

"No bad candy to rot your teeth! HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!" she said.

I think if I'd been alone and had an egg I might have thrown it. ; )

J