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Published: 2014-10-18 20:19:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 913; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 5
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As a kid,I heard time and time again stories about people on Halloween who'd intentionally tamper with candy,apples and other treats,putting razors,needles and other things in them,then handing them out to unwitting trick-or-treaters,all to satisfy some grotesque sadistic need.I'm happy to report there were no such incidents reported in my neighborhood,or even in my city (South Milwaukee) for that matter.In fact,there was an elderly lady not far from my street who,for several years,invited a steady stream of trick-or-treaters into her house for cider and doughnuts.
Unfortunately,I also remember the disclaimer put in the closing credits when they reran the Fat Albert Halloween Special,the voice of Bill Cosby strongly urging children not to enter strangers' houses on Halloween.
The fact that such warnings exist must mean that there are those who'd do such fiendish things to children...thankfully,they seem to be a very small minority...but anyone who would do something like that are strongly deserving of some otherworldly retribution...like the scenario above.
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From the Cracked.com article 4 Truly Scary Facts No One Tells You About Halloween by Soren Bowie:
As a child, your parents likely dug through all your Halloween candy before you could eat it and threw away anything without a wrapper. If you complained as they tossed out perfectly good caramel apples, the reasoning was always the same: Someone might have booby-trapped it with a razor blade.
Now that you are an adult with adult faculties, take a minute to really process that logic. Aside from the clumsy way that someone would have to go about cramming a razor inside an apple (blade out), those hypothetical children haters would be making a terrible decision by operating out of their own houses. They aren't handing caramel apples to kids in some alley; they're doing it from their own front door. It's pretty easy even for a 5-year-old to keep track of which house has the cat skeletons in the yard and hands out homemade sweets.
"But Soren," you're probably saying (except in that "Why so serious?" voice you've been working on), "surely if those stories are just myths then that's good news for Halloween." Well, not so fast. There are still a few instances of kids biting into dangerous objects like pins and poison in their Halloween candy. It does happen, but rarely. The really terrible news, however, is that in nearly every documented case of candy tampering, it was a family member who did it. Like Ronald O'Bryan, who laced his son's Pixy Stix with cyanide in 1974. Or in 1970, when 5-year-old Kevin Toston died after eating his uncle's heroin, then Kevin's parents sprinkled heroin on his Halloween candy to save the uncle from a prison sentence. In each of the cases that incited the whole Halloween candy scare, the Halloween candy was just fine until the kids brought it home.
It turns out that allowing your parents to determine which candy is safe and which is deadly has proven to be more dangerous, historically, than never letting them touch it at all.
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Very nice, I heard about some of those urban legends as well.
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