I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨37⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The US is based on fear. Fear of health, fear of loan, fear of god, fear of guns, fear of “that other party”, fear of candy…

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  www.joelbest.net/halloween-sadism

  There hasn’t been a single proven case of “Halloween Sadism” that resulted in anything other than extremely minor injuries. Every other example given in press or other media are either hoaxes or result in nothing more than a slightly upset stomach.

  There’s one notable exception which is the case of Ronald Clark O’Brien who was a piece of shit who murdered his own son and attempted to murder 5 other children to claim the life insurance money.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Clark_O'Bryan

  You’re vastly more likely to die at Halloween in a road traffic collision (the worst day of the year for children being hit by cars) than anyone putting poison in your sweets.

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  • Hazzard@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s even more surprising given the common-ness of “copycats” with mass murders and such. Even with all this constant hype and fear around the idea every year, practically marketing it, seemingly nobody has ever bit and done it.

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Possibly either a respect for Halloween held by all those murderers, or officials covering up the actual date when things happened, the former seeming more likely.

      Hrm… so Halloween is wholesome? :-P

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  • ShamanRonin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I went to school with a guy who’s father was one of the cops that investigated this in Texas. This is indeed the progenitor of Halloween panic.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah but it isn’t the progenitor at all. He only thought he’d get away with it, because everyone knows crazy people poison the halloween candy. He believed the police wouldn’t even investigate because it’s so common.

      The media frenzy each year is in fact directly responsible for the murder.

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• slothrop@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I was a kid in the 60s, we used to get so many razor blades in our apples, my dad didn’t ever have to buy them, and he bought extra houses instead.
  Good old days.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Growing up before woke, you just got used to the occasional razor or research chemical in your candy. It toughened us up.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quick google search reveals multiple cases of items being inserted into Halloween candy. Usually needles. Theere were a couple this year in the US. They are isolated incidents, though.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As I posted in another comment, there are simply no proven examples where something was actually poisoned or inserted into candies on Halloween.

    The latest examples that appear to be coming out of kentucky are based on 2 pictures that both look suspiciously staged, there will almost certainly be a small, quiet story in only the local media (if at all) explaining that the images were staged or a hoax and the police won’t be investigating any further.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Proven? I’m not some conspiracy nut, but there are several reports of tampered candy this year. I imagine some are fake and from attention seekers, but a couple seem legit. The general impossibility of people inspecting every candy before eating would make pre-discovery proof all but impossible.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why you slip acid in the raisins. That way the parents get high not the kids

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• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If someone gives me an apple with a razor blade in it, I ain’t ever gonna know cuz I ain’t eating an apple from a stranger.

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  • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You would definitely notice the cut in skin with a cursory examination. I think sewing needles would be more effective.

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• waterore@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This candy was fucked with! If only I could remember the houses I took my kids to! Oh well, I guess we’ll never know who did this.

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  • Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They can’t exactly go door to door and have a brief conversation with everyone. That would take most of an evening!

    Joking of course.

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Luckily we were safe. No six seven in our candy this year.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you sure? Did you try counting the number of pieces of candy? I bet you got at least 6 to 7 pieces somewhere in there…

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      omg

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Problem I worry is that because both media and all of you create so much attention to this issue, it’s likely to happen at some point

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’ve been saying it on the national news for 40+ years as though it’s true, but yeah one of the hundred and fifteen people who read this on Lemmy are definitely going to be the first ones to actually do it.

    🙄

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My dad just sent me a nextdoor post claiming to be from the police saying some kids found sewing needles in gummy bears… How to know if it is a hoax?

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The police would not be communicating via next door they’d be putting out official communication via normal methods of something like this

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