A strongly worded note left on an Australian’s front door has sparked a furious debate over whether Australia should celebrate Halloween.
In a resurfaced photo that went viral online this week, the owner told trick-or-treaters to leave the doorbell alone on a burning note taped to the front door with a peg.
“This is Australia, not the United States,” the note begins.
‘Fuck your Halloween bullshit, you little idiots.’
People have flocked to the comments, divided over the explicit warning.
—It seems more like Australians are miserable and don’t like children. Anyway, thank God I don’t live there,’ one person commented.
“It’s time to send eggs and toilet paper to Australia from the US with love,” wrote another.
“All tricks and no treats in Australia,” added another.
A foul-mouthed note told trick-or-treaters to ‘fuck off’ with their ‘Halloween shit’
Australian homes have increasingly been decorated with Halloween-related decorations over the years.
In another post on a British site, a man commented: “Halloween 24/7 for Aussies, with all the spiders crawling around.”
But one Australian was a fan of the holiday.
‘Here I am Australian and I love Halloween. “It’s becoming more popular, but some people just live in the land of lulu,” he said.
An Australian told foreigners that the holiday is not really hated in the country.
‘Australians don’t hate Halloween. It’s just that it’s been Americanized over the years on our televisions, not as something Irish or English or pagan.
“And like everything Americanized in Australia, it has been so prevalent that it seems as if it has been shoved down our throats, hence this reaction. “It is not an Australian tradition nor is it part of Australian culture,” they argued.
Homeowners hang cobwebs and spiders, add tombstones to their gardens, and even place skeletons in their windows to commemorate the occasion.
The United States is known for going all out for the holidays, although Australia has been steadily moving closer to Halloween, with costumes and candy dominating shopping malls this October.
Homes across the country have also decorated for the holiday, hanging fake spiders and proudly displaying pumpkins for all to see.
Costumes and treats aside, however, the holiday dates back to the Celtic agricultural festival in Ireland called Samhain, where it was believed that spirits could return from the dead.
As a result, people dressed up in costumes to protect themselves from ghosts.