A$$hole in Kamloops inserts sewing needle in kids' treats!
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With The Cannuck troll....one hoax and everything is a hoax....
With flossy, as long as you don't find a ladder in your bag of chips you should be OK....:wink:
To all those who think that there is someone putting objects in Halloween handouts you need to pause and contemplate the scenario.
Of the less than a handful of reports from across North America they have involved only one person in each location.
If someone, in those locations, has decided that they hate kids enough to put foreign objects into those handouts why do they only put those objects in one?
Why wouldn't they put something in every thing they are handing out so that we would hear about 50 or more kids in a given neighbourhood finding something?
50 years ago as a kid I heard about 'razor blades' in apples.
Neither I, nor anyone I have known over the subsequent 50 years have found nor have I personally known of anyone finding anything in the thousands of handout that have happened over that time span.
No wonder the CONS thought the 'Muslims are under your bed' tactic would work...........
Where Did the Fear of Poisoned Halloween Candy Come From?
For nearly 30 years, University of Delaware sociologist Joel Best has been investigating allegations of strangers poisoning kids’ Halloween candy. As of this writing, he hasn’t identified a single confirmed example of a stranger murdering a child in this fashion.
He found other examples of people accidentally passing out tainted candy or, in one case, passing out ant poison as a gag gift to teenagers (no one was hurt), but the bogeyman of terrible people making trick-or-treating unsafe is a canard.
One example of a person trying, explicitly, to poison children via Halloween candy was confirmed. However, the child who died wasn’t a stranger—it was the man’s son.
On Halloween, 1974, an 8-year-old boy named Timothy O’Bryan died. His candy had, indeed, been poisoned. A few days prior, his father, Ronald Clark O’Bryan, took out a $40,000 life insurance policy on Timothy and Timothy’s sister, Elizabeth (then age 5), as an unimaginable way to get out of debt. The only way to collect required that at least one of his children die, so the elder O’Bryan laced some Pixy Stix with cyanide and cajoled his son into eating one before bed.
As murder would negate the insurance policy, the father had to cover his tracks. Already showing a wanton disregard for the lives of others—children, at that—he decided to potentially kill a few. He distributed some of the tainted candy to at least four other children (including his daughter), according to the Houston Chronicle, setting up the story that a neighborhood madman or demented factory worker had caused the tragic death of his son. Fortunately, he was unsuccessful. None of the other children ended up eating the poison, in part due to a quick reaction from authorities and in part due to dumb luck—an 11-year-old tried to eat the sugar in the Pixy Stix he received, but could not undo the staples that O’Bryan had used to reseal the package.
As tragic as this story is, it is the only known example of a person intentionally poisoning Halloween candy and providing it to neighborhood trick-or-treaters. And Ronald Clark O’Bryan won’t be poisoning any more candy—the state of Texas executed him in 1984.
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Obviously not quite the hoax some people seem to think. I'm sure the kids' parents have a different opinion!
Obviously not quite the hoax some people seem to think. I'm sure the kids' parents have a different opinion!
Cannuck
You are giving the twit too much credit! Only an idiot would ignore razor blades in kids' treats!
Well, I am the King of making you salty but really, the we I'm talking about are the intelligent folk... you know... the ones that make fun of you all the time.