Halloween: somebody gets it

In my neighborhood no one goes trick-or-treating door to door in residential areas. They go to Lawrence or Kedzie avenues and go door-to-door trick-or-treating at stores or businesses. Or they go to the richer area of single-family homes (Ravenswood Manor, where Blago lives lol) a few blocks away. Apparently working-class neighborhoods are where they think all the candy poisoners and child molesters live.
 
We actually get a ton of trick-or-treaters (and given their weights, it very well might add up to a ton - so take that all you literalists :p ). Living on a cul-de-sac with mostly older residents, parents feel it's safe enough to drop their kids off and watch from the end as the kids make their way around (well, the older kids do that, the younger kids are generally escorted by one or more parents to the edge of the driveway, few parents actually come all the way up to the door).

At least here Halloween hasn't been stolen from the kids as of yet...I can feel it coming though :(
 
Great article. But this:

No child has ever been killed by poisoned candy. Ever.
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Is not true. There is one case of a child dying after eating poisoned Halloween candy. The poisoned candy came from inside the boy's home. So, kids watch out for your prents!
 
Emet said:
Great article, bigred. If I had a candy bar (and ate them) for every time I pointed out to someone the urban legends of razor blades in apples/poisoned candy, I'd weigh a considerable amount more than I do now.
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Maybe it's just me, but I think trying to shove razor blades into an apple would probably more dangerous to the person putting them IN the apple.

Cripes, where did THAT one start?
 
I suspect the wrapped candy industrial complex.
 
girlyfied said:
Great article. But this:



Is not true. There is one case of a child dying after eating poisoned Halloween candy. The poisoned candy came from inside the boy's home. So, kids watch out for your prents!
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That's covered in the article.

...spends every October telling the press that there has never been a single case of any child being killed by a stranger's Halloween candy. (Oh, yes, he concedes, there was once a Texas boy poisoned by a Pixie Stix. But his dad did it for the insurance money. He was executed.)
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I like to ask concerned parents to point out the specific neighbor they believe could be a child poisoner.
 
BobTheDonkey said:
We actually get a ton of trick-or-treaters (and given their weights, it very well might add up to a ton - so take that all you literalists :p ). Living on a cul-de-sac with mostly older residents, parents feel it's safe enough to drop their kids off and watch from the end as the kids make their way around (well, the older kids do that, the younger kids are generally escorted by one or more parents to the edge of the driveway, few parents actually come all the way up to the door).

At least here Halloween hasn't been stolen from the kids as of yet...I can feel it coming though :(
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It was around here and my hometown area(s) many years ago. When I was a kid ALL the kids did it; now it's scarcely a whisper. I pity kids who don't get to experience that.
 
As the psycho-next-door I aprove of this article.
 
WildCat said:
In my neighborhood no one goes trick-or-treating door to door in residential areas. They go to Lawrence or Kedzie avenues and go door-to-door trick-or-treating at stores or businesses. Or they go to the richer area of single-family homes (Ravenswood Manor, where Blago lives lol) a few blocks away. Apparently working-class neighborhoods are where they think all the candy poisoners and child molesters live.
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Pffft. Malls and working class (does this mean you don't think the rich work? but I digress) neighborhoods just don't have as good a haul as you can get in an upper middle class neighborhood*.

(*The rich don't open their gates. ;) )
 
JoeyDonuts said:
Maybe it's just me, but I think trying to shove razor blades into an apple would probably more dangerous to the person putting them IN the apple.

Cripes, where did THAT one start?
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According to Snopes: Pins and Needles, it is extremely rare but has happened. My understanding is the first razor in an apple was faked by the 'victim' back in the 60s, but I could be wrong.
 
I am amazed at the way children don't wander around their neighborhoods like they used to. I used to roam around and go exploring in creeks and whatnot. It's a right of passage for children in suburbia. The climate of exaggerated fear the media has created is frustrating.
 
The poor kids in my town have to trick or treat between 1 pm and 4 pm, due to some kid getting abducted and killed on Halloween twenty some-odd years ago.

Daytime trick or treat is the lamest thing ever. When I was a sprout, my mom and grandma would take us to town and turn us loose for a couple of hours while they visited and handed out candy with an elderly friend of theirs. Hell, we didn't even leave the house until it was dark out.
 
Halfcentaur said:
I am amazed at the way children don't wander around their neighborhoods like they used to. I used to roam around and go exploring in creeks and whatnot. It's a right of passage for children in suburbia. The climate of exaggerated fear the media has created is frustrating.
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EXACTLY.....


Howie Felterbush said:
The poor kids in my town have to trick or treat between 1 pm and 4 pm, due to some kid getting abducted and killed on Halloween twenty some-odd years ago.

Daytime trick or treat is the lamest thing ever. When I was a sprout, my mom and grandma would take us to town and turn us loose for a couple of hours while they visited and handed out candy with an elderly friend of theirs. Hell, we didn't even leave the house until it was dark out.
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And again :)
 
I remember when Hallowe'en was fun. This was back in the 1960's, though, in rural Michigan. But you were as likely to get a muskrat pelt as you were to get a home-made caramel apple.

... mmmmm ... muskrat ...
 
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