Police set trick-or-treat regulations here. You cannot wear a mask if you are over 12, but plenty of older kids and adults ask for candy. Trick-or-treat is restricted to 6-8 PM, and the city will move it to another day if Halloween falls on Sunday or Wednesday (because church) or if there's a big football game. It's been that way at least since I've been a parent. No one gets arrested unless there's a complaint.
Methinks the family members may be pulling our collective leg with the occupation stories, maybe for laughs, or possibly to cover up other nefarious information. Or maybe Stein wrote the whole thing himself, years ago.
At one place I lived, I removed a couple feet of pine needles from the forest floor, and orchids began blooming! A few years later, with more forest "improvements," they died out.
I would venture to guess that Tennessee Hater users are trying to distance themselves from their poverty-stricken ancestors. My mother collected dandelion greens, blackberries, sassafras, and black walnuts as a kid (and so did I, but I wasn't in Tennessee).
It will have to be a redesign of the phone itself, if it ever happens. People are used to holding a phone upright, because that's the way we talk on phone calls. The fact that actual phone calls are a small part of their use today is irrelevant. The upright mode makes putting a viewing screen and a keyboard together simpler... so that's what they are used to now. My kids act like turning a phone from upright (texting orientation) to horizontal (TV mode) is a hassle.
The first adult horror film my kids saw was Carrie. I warned them as we went along that it was going to get scary. They were intrigued with the story, then by the time the prom went to hell, it became apparent that I oversold the horror, because they weren't that frightened.