mm&TG toI Awft eift! Prominent Missoulians serve up U U UU4P QiU uJ liu rQiiLP some memories of mischief past By MEA ANDREWS of the Missoulian "Trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat. If you don't, I don't care, I'll pull down your underwear. " Second-grader Brad Lane learned that little ditty when he was 4, but he's never actually car ried out its threat. Actually, says the Missoula boy, he's never done anything mischievous on Halloween. "I don't want to get into any trouble," said Lane, who plans to dress up as a vampire this year and concentrate on the job at hand gathering candy. Halloween's reputation as a night of hooliganism is notorious but in Missoula, perhaps undeserved. In other states, grocery stores don't sell eggs to kids on Halloween day. Early curfews are strictly enforced to keep marauding bands of pre-teens and teens off the streets. Extra patrols are scheduled. Missoula's version of this mischief consists mostly of loud laughing, a few rolls of toilet paper and lots of squashed squash. "We've never had much of a problem," said Missoula County Undersheriff Doug Chase, who also was city police chief some (See TRICKS, Page A-10)
