Are kids these days too chicken to put the ‘trick’ in ‘trick or treat?’

Are kids these days too wussy to play Halloween tricks? (AP)

As Halloween approaches, 97.3 KIRO FM host Dave Ross said it’s time to call cops out to keep kids from playing tricks, but co-host Luke Burbank says, no need, kids these days aren’t up to the task.

“In this day and age, kids are too sissy to do any fun tricking,” says Burbank.

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Ross says he was always intimidated by Halloween as a kid because as “a kid who believes in law and order,” he had to find a way to participate without touching the toilet paper.

“As you got older, you get into a group of kids who are interested more into the tricks than the treat part,” says Ross.

Burbank says kids today don’t even take to the streets like in days of old.

“Nobody even goes out,” says Burbank. “They go to trunk Halloween, which is where you get in a parking lot and everyone gives candy out from their cars, families get together, or you go to a mall, or you go to a harvest party.”

Burbank seems to favor a return to the old ways.

“I’m angry because I didn’t grow up in the 1950s where people were doing things like lighting pumpkins on fire and putting bags of flaming dog poop on people’s doorsteps. Fun stuff. That’s where the real action was.”

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor