Poisoned Halloween Candy? Yeah....About That....

[mrjarrell]

It's a myth. So, no need to go and have your kids candy x-rayed (not that an x-ray would pick up poison) or do any of the weird stuff some newspapers "experts" would have you do.

Safe, Happy Halloween From 'World's Leading Authority on Poisoned Candy'

 

[Bunnykid68]

What about all the razor blades and needles the bad people shove into the apples and snickers bars

 

[bmbutch]

During trunk or treat last night in Evansville, I made sure all knew our candy was safe by sampling it frequently! (no kids did without due to my sampling!)

 

[HoughMade]

What about all the razor blades and needles the bad people shove into the apples and snickers bars

Those people weren't getting enough attention so they gave up on that and started open carrying ARs in McDonalds so someone will pay attention to them.

 

[mrjarrell]

What about all the razor blades and needles the bad people shove into the apples and snickers bars

Same as the poison. Urban legend.

 

[giovani]

I was of trick or treat age in the mid 1970s and heard all the watch out for razor blade , needles, tampering, etc. back then, and in all these years I have yet to actually meet someone who got a tainted treat.

i'm going with urban legend as well.

 

[mbills2223]

What about all the razor blades and needles the bad people shove into the apples and snickers bars

Giving out apples for Halloween? Wow...there really are evil people in this world...

 

[HoughMade]

I was of trick or treat age in the mid 1970s and heard all the watch out for razor blade , needles, tampering, etc. back then, and in all these years I have yet to actually meet someone who got a tainted treat.

i'm going with urban legend as well.

To think- they kept that one going for decades before the internet.

BTW- Lifetime LTCH handgun, gone 1/1/14

 

[mbills2223]

To think- they kept that one going for decades before the internet.

BTW- Lifetime LTCH handgun, gone 1/1/14

OMGZ REALLY?!?! I better tell EVERYONE, time to head to the LGS. Those spec ops mission stories aren't gonna tell themselves!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Maybe my memory is failing or fooling me here, but I seem to remember back in the day the news showing sample x-rays of needles, razors, or what have you in "homemade" treats. The press didn't start making up stuff when Night Line faked the blowing up of Chevy pickup trucks, did they?

 

[Bunnykid68]

Giving out apples for Halloween? Wow...there really are evil people in this world...

Used to get popcorn balls too

 

[MCgrease08]

I actually saw a piece on the local news last night about a kid in Pennsylvania that found a razor blade in a bag of M&Ms this week. They were playing it up like, oh no danger! People messing with Halloween candy, trying to kill your kids. Then they finally talk to the kid's mom and she's like, I called the company and they think the blade actually fell off the machine during packaging.

So the lesson is, it wasn't a psycho trying to hurt kids, but the media has no problem paying up the story making you think it was.

 

[GunSlinger]

Used to get popcorn balls too

Yep, thank goodness for antibiotics huh?

 

[bluewraith]

The closest thing I ever got to "tainted" candy as a child was a full size snickers bar that had been cut in half. Great on the house for giving out REAL candy, but come on now..

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

Yup, even in the late 60's we were hearing it. Yes - apples, oranges, popcorn balls, rice treats, fudge, home made cookies, all kinds of home made treats. Trust me it was better then. We lived in the country so you worked off the calories by humping it from farm to farm.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Hospitals recently offered to X-ray candy for people for free. I wasn't happy as I was working that night and they wanted me to review the xrays. Sure... i'll take on a ton of liability for something free that involves paranoid parents and non-paying patients...

Oh, and a ton of sharp things cannot be seen on X-ray so it's a total false sense of security.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Hospitals recently offered to X-ray candy for people for free. I wasn't happy as I was working that night and they wanted me to review the xrays. Sure... i'll take on a ton of liability for something free that involves paranoid parents and non-paying patients...

Oh, and a ton of sharp things cannot be seen on X-ray so it's a total false sense of security.

Leave your lapel pin in a patient once?


I keeed, I keeed!

 

[BiscuitNaBasket]

During trunk or treat last night in Evansville, I made sure all knew our candy was safe by sampling it frequently! (no kids did without due to my sampling!)

I was driving down southport rd earlier this week and saw "trunk or treat" on a sign in a church parking lot. My first reaction was that sounds very wrong. Take the candy or I put ya in the trunk kid.

Your post just reminded me of that. /end rant.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Leave your lapel pin in a patient once?


I keeed, I keeed!

I work in pajamas, what on earth is a lapel

 

[shibumiseeker]

I work in pajamas, what on earth is a lapel

Hello Kitty pin?