It appears you are right and I am wrong --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoned_candy_scare

Funny how something you have "known" for such a long time can turn out to be baseless.


>Can you point me to a single factual account of poisoning of halloween candy by anyone other than a parent or relative of the victim? I've never found one. The media always speaks of the risk, and even Fort Bragg has free xrays of candy on Halloween night, but I've never seen an actual case except where it was done by a relative.
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>>Are you being facetious?
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>>If not, do you think the media should have kept it to themselves when pins and razor blades started turning up in Halloween apples, to avoid scaring anyone?
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>>>Ah, the media. The media played a big part in bringing fear to American households over poisoned halloween candy. It planted the seeds of worry in parents minds. Just like it does now with everything else.
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>>>>>>>>>Well it is here again. One of my most funnest days of the year.
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>>>>>>>>I think valentine's day is funnier, tho, my kids prefers Holloween for sure.
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>>>>>>>I guess I am a kid still at heart.
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>>>>>>>But, here in Memphis, I am told that Holloween is rearly observed. I suppose I will have wait and see for myself. They say it is because this is Bible Belt, and fokes around here still see it as evil. Strange that fun day is considered evil.
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>>>>>>I don't see near the volume of trick-or-treaters out and about the neigborhood as I use to. When I was a kid, the street would be filled with candy hunters during holloween.
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>>>>>Where I live now, in the suburbs, Halloween is observed but the town sort of keeps a lid on it. Trick or treating is between 1 and 5 p.m. the Sunday before Halloween. Halloween night seems like any other night for the most part. That's probably in the interest of reducing mayhem, not religious. The world has gotten to be a more dangerous place than it was when you and I were kids. The stuff I hear from even my younger daughter (freshman) and her friends about things in their lives is scarier than any Halloween.
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>>>>A very famous case that probably kill off much of the Halloween enthusiasm is when a father poisoned his own son with potassium cyanide for 40,000.00 insurance money.
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>>>>http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3813766
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>>>>What a jerk. Hope he's rotting in hell.