Comments on: The Bloody Hook and Halloween Candy Poisoners

By: Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:19:00 +0000

Hey, thanks for your feedback, Barbaloot, Tamie and Alex!Sometimes I wonder if some very crafty kids made up the razor blades in the apple urban legend themselves, so they could get out of eating the apples when there was so much candy to be gorged upon.I think children are in more danger from the dyes and Frankenstein ingredients in the candy than anything else on Halloween!
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By: Alex Dupuy

Alex Dupuy — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:31:00 +0000

This is a very important courage exercise for parents – many of whom are actually more fearful (for less reason) than their children.A good place to start is to stop watching the local nightly news, which tends to focus on these sorts of (unlikely, but heartstopping) fears, e.g. as reported in this great article: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11342/ (via FreeRangeKids).

By: Tamie Ehinger

Tamie Ehinger — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:41:00 +0000

Great article!

By: Barbaloot

Barbaloot — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:21:00 +0000

Oh yes, my childhood Halloween memories all include the terrible wait while my parents dutifully inspected each and every piece of my haul, removing anything not hermetically sealed.A tootsie roll?Who would take that kind of risk?Any lunatic could unroll it, douse it in poison and roll it right back up! No tootsie rolls for us.And fruit?We didn't have an xray machine, so no way.