There’s a fair sized cross section of the US that just really likes to be scared of something. This one is no different from Stranger Danger or Satanic Panic. Children are statistically in more danger from trusted family members than they ever could be from any stranger.
Children are statistically in more danger from trusted family members than they ever could be from any stranger.
While I agree wholeheartedly, it’s also worth acknowledging that a large part of this statistical bias is simply because children spend more 1-on-1 time around those trusted adults. No parent with good intentions is just handing their kids off to random strangers and leaving them alone for extended periods of time. Those trusted adults have more opportunities to abuse a child, because they are trusted to be alone with the child.
It’s the same reason that like 80% of all car wrecks happen within 5 miles of your home. It’s not that driving near your home is statistically more dangerous; it’s that you do most of your driving near your home, so there are more opportunities for wrecks to happen near your home.
And Halloween is a weird sort of social paradox, where we are societally expected to suddenly place a lot of trust in random strangers. So those strangers suddenly have an opportunity to affect your kids that they wouldn’t have had otherwise. But also, random poisoning is such a niche form of abuse that it isn’t statistically likely, even with the relaxed social expectations. There have been a few notable examples of random poisoning, (as a notable example, it’s why OTC medications have tamper-evident seals). But the type of person who would do something like that would also likely be smart enough to avoid doing it in a way that would be easily traceable back to them, (like handing the poison out directly from their own home).
TLDR: Children being statistically more likely to die in a car collision than a drug overdose doesn’t mean it’s safer for them to do drugs than ride in a car
I can think of plenty of people whom I genuinely think would consider taking a long walk off a short pier if they suddenly had absolutely nothing to be afraid of, complain about, or be angry about. Misery is like food and drink to some.
Children are statistically in more danger from trusted family members than they ever could be from any stranger.
Know what’s “funny” about that? The myth in question comes from ONE case of a dad (Ronald Clark O’Bryan) using it to kill his kids (only one died), poisoned their pixie sticks with potassium cyanide, all for the life insurance claim.
No drug addict is giving away their fentanyl.
It’s a myth perpetuated by parents so they can continue to confiscate Halloween candy for themselves.
I don’t need to scaremonger about drugs in order to collect my “dad tax.”
I told my kids what my favorite candy was and they save it and bring it to me.
It’s a myth perpetuated by parents so they can continue to confiscate Halloween candy for themselves.
It is a myth propagated by those afraid of strangers.
Everyone winks about Santa Claus. People get angry and scared about the “threat” from adulterated (pun intended) Halloween candy.
True. I was trying to be funny. Most of us had parents who would “check” our candy.
Well… I guess I kinda whooshed on that as a joke, but I see how it is one, and a good one at that — sorry to whoosh <3
And yep, I definitely “got” it, joke or serious. lol. My parents most definitely included in the checking, but I never minded too much. Mom especially usually took stuff I didn’t want anyway. lol
Thanks for your patience with my misunderstanding <3
I just want to know what happened to all the candy laced with drugs that I was promised.
In this economy? Those fuckers are expensive.
You just gotta go to the right neighbourhood.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/cannabis-edibles-halloween-candy-1.7155285
What’s y’all’s favorite thing to hide inside of candy? Mine is
mountain lions. Honorable mentions toexistential dreadandnougat that turns you transthough.Linux ISOs 😈
One time I got a Reese’s bar with the entire 1998 L.A. Lakers inside
Mine is the completely legitimate salvage of the
MCRN TachiRocinante.
Not even close to the shittiest attachment I’ve seen stuck onto an AK tbh
In Trenton, governor of New Jersey Thomas Kean signed a bill imposing a mandatory six-month jail sentence on anyone convicted of handing out contaminated Halloween candy
Obviously the poisoned candy thing is BS but if you actually believed people were mass murdering/poisoning kids on Halloween, this would be a pretty weak sentence would it not? 6 months for mass murder
The odds are low, but some people are fucking weird. Trust but verify.
The worst part is your are supposed to share it with a friend. Absolute monsters.
Hey when I was a kid our parents would buy us BB guns like this as toys, could be worse.
Gotta watch out for that poison laced Tylenol in your candy.
