Texas Families Are Finding Sewing Needles In Their Children's Candy

[ChristisKing]

Hasn't this always been a problem though? This is why it's important to check candy given to kids before allowing them to eat it as there's always going to be sickos out there. As for fifteen and sixteen year olds going trick-or-treating? What the heck!? I think that thirteen is too old.

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

I used to enjoy getting all that candy. At 13, I decided to go one last year. It was going pretty good until a kid from school recognized me. I never trick or treated again.

 

[hjmick]

I was a kid in Houston when a father put cyanide in Pixie Stix, gave them to his son, daughter, and two of their friends. The son ate his and died. Dear old dad needed the insurance money. He was executed ten years later.


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[elektra]

Halloween is not here? Must be old stories. This was a problem in the 1970's.

 

[hjmick]

The truth is, razor blades in apples and candy, needles in candy, poison in candy... rarely happens, unless it's done by someone known to the family or the kids themselves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/halloween-candy-tampering-urban-legend-truth-1.5341734

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[Muhammed]

I used to enjoy getting all that candy. At 13, I decided to go one last year. It was going pretty good until a kid from school recognized me. I never trick or treated again.

I think a couple of friends and I were about that age when we started getting questioned while trick or treating..

Q: Aren't you fellas a little old to be trick or treating?

A: No.

Q: Why aren't you boys wearing costumes?

A: Costumes are for little kids!

A: Look, technically those two have costumes, they're wearing baseball hats, so they're dressed as baseball players.

Q: But what are you? You're not weaking a hat.

A: He's our agent.

 

[Moonglow]

Hasn't this always been a problem though? This is why it's important to check candy given to kids before allowing them to eat it as there's always going to be sickos out there. As for fifteen and sixteen year olds going trick-or-treating? What the heck!? I think that thirteen is too old.

It isn't Halloween yet.

 

[ChristisKing]

It isn't Halloween yet.

I didn't say that it was.

 

[Moonglow]

I want to know why we didn't get free drugz from dealers while in school.

 

[Freedomisneverfree]

The truth is, razor blades in apples and candy, needles in candy, poison in candy... rarely happens, unless it's done by someone known to the family or the kids themselves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/halloween-candy-tampering-urban-legend-truth-1.5341734

How Often Does Halloween Candy Tampering Really Happen?

The stories of evil strangers tainting Halloween candy and apples with poison, glass and razor blades have prevailed for several decades. But are they true?

recipes.howstuffworks.com

I remember the Tylenol poisonings in 1980-something and they CANCELLED Halloween! They feared the killers would spike the candy.

 

[GLASNOST]

Texas Families Are Finding Sewing Needles In Their Children's Candy​

I think that old "razor blades in the Holloweany Apples" scare was debunkd.

 

[GLASNOST]

"I am allergic to piety" - Penn Jillette

”I am allergic to Safety Razor apples.” - Disposable Gillette Jr.

 

[TimFitz]

Halloween is not here? Must be old stories. This was a problem in the 1970's.

It was an urban myth in the 1960’s.

Fox is keeping it alive for a fearful and receptive audience.

 

[konradv]

Hasn't this always been a problem though? This is why it's important to check candy given to kids before allowing them to eat it as there's always going to be sickos out there. As for fifteen and sixteen year olds going trick-or-treating? What the heck!? I think that thirteen is too old.

Sounds like a snopes story!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Texas should keep an eye on their Muslim enclaves.

 

[Zebra]

I think that old "razor blades in the Holloweany Apples" scare was debunkd.

was it only urban legends?

 

[initforme]

I have observed halloween decorations taking over christmas decorations by a pretty good margin. Less and less christmas lights. The number of extravagent halloween decoratio s has grown exponentially.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Trick-or-treating at strangers' houses is foolish and dangerous. Yes, we did it when I was a kid, but for once the old way was not the best way.

364 days out of the year, we tell kids to avoid strangers, especially strangers offering candy. Then one night a year, we dress them in costumes (often slutty costumes even for kids) and send them to strangers' (often darkened) porches to ring the bell and present themselves.

I don't care if you are standing right behind them. The stranger could yank them inside and lock the door before you realize something is wrong.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Hasn't this always been a problem though? This is why it's important to check candy given to kids before allowing them to eat it as there's always going to be sickos out there. As for fifteen and sixteen year olds going trick-or-treating? What the heck!? I think that thirteen is too old.

They don't apparently know the difference in a pin and a needle. Sad.

 

[Seymour Flops]

I remember the Tylenol poisonings in 1980-something and they CANCELLED Halloween! They feared the killers would spike the candy.

Prior to that, a Texas "father" poisoned his 8 year old kid for the insurance money by putting cyanide in a Giant Pixy Stick.

Executed in 1984. The other prisoners asked permission to hold a demonstration on the night he died to show how much the prisoners hated him.