How many people a year actually get poisoned from Halloween candy?
2006-11-01 11:36:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
Not people...KIDS...and if even one gets poisoned then that's still one tooooo many.
2006-11-01 11:37:59 · answer #1 · answered by Betty Boop 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's unknown,.. most times the connection is not found (that they have been poisoned and that it related to Halloween).
It's not very common any more now though.
There was a year or two that were really nasty and they increased things for the next couple years after that to try to prevent problems,.. now people don't go so nuts trying to make sure candy is safe.
I would say a bigger problem is accidental deaths from consumeing food and liquids. Some times childern are unaware of their own allergies, some times people are unaware of content in the food and drink they serve and eat,... Some times a spiked drink or an adult drink made to look and taste like sweets/candy ends up causeing stuff that triggers a preexsisting illness the person was even unaware they had and they end up dieing.
STILL both there is no telling what the real numbers are for,
2006-11-01 20:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by sailortinkitty 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Next to none. Any kids that are poisoned or otherwise injured are victims of their own parents or relatives attempting to kill them and then looking for anyone and anything else to blame so they don't get caught. That's where the whole urban legend came from in the first place. Random strangers don't fit into the picture anywhere.
2006-11-07 09:09:21 · answer #3 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some parents poisoned their own kids, then blamed it on the Hallowe'en candy. When no other kids turned up sick, their story crumbled.
Other than that, I heard on the Discovery Channel that some candy with some form of e-coli was handed out, but it was unintentional.
Anything else is an urban legend.
2006-11-02 01:24:26 · answer #4 · answered by mithril 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Practically ever horror story you ever heard of this nature was a realative trying to kill or injure a child. Not some random stranger out to do bad. Just a psycho looking for a cover up.
2006-11-01 21:24:09 · answer #5 · answered by FX_Make-upArtist 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not as many as you think back in the 60 s got candy with pins needles and glass in unwrapped sweets and there wasnt many cases of poisioning until drugs became more of a prblem in the 80s. i do recall a few kids getting candy that was laced with LSD and they became disoriented and confused but i dont recalled if any fatalities were caused by the drugs.
2006-11-01 19:44:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
basically none - that's a myth: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp
2006-11-01 19:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by hot.turkey 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
tons
2006-11-01 19:37:19 · answer #8 · answered by Da Vinci's Code 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋