Ok so any other day of the year if a child was given some candy by a stranger it would be suspicious and parents would worry it was tampered with~ imagine laxatives wrapped like chocolate!! OR WORSE AND MORE SINISTER!
Do parents worry or check candy or anything?
2007-10-05 18:21:27 · 13 answers · asked by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's rather interesting that some people drive for miles to see the Halloween set we put up and get their childrens treats. If it's a good night, I don robes and tell children of our Jack-O-Lantern tree and why a ghost wears a sheet. Otherwise, I run the lightboard.
At the same time a couple of clergy are already ranting about "that Pagan." One of them puts on a realy gory thing at his church every year to "scare the devil" out of the children.
We have one thing in common. The young'uns get packaged, national brand candy.
2007-10-06 05:59:55 · answer #1 · answered by Terry 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
When my son was little I Always checked the candy for any signs of tampering. Now that he's 17, he doesn't go "Trick or Treating" except to take his little cousin around... and then he usually goes through her candy for her. But when he was young, a friend of mine who had 3 kids who would always go with us on Halloween would let her kids eat the candy while we were walking around without ever even looking at what they were sticking in their mouth. I vaguely remember an argument ensuing as to why a parent should be responsible for watching out for their children.
2007-10-06 07:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by River 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, parents are told to check candy for tainted candy. They are told to take children to only friends and relatives houses. That is why stores have started giving out candy to protect children.
Usually parents arw aalking with the smaller children and standing in the yard as their child is on the porch getting candy.
BB
2007-10-06 07:12:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They do now.
They didn't in the past, but about 30 years ago in the US, they started telling people to check their children's Halloween treats for such things.
I had to check with my Mother, but the last year that I did the Halloween experience, as I was felt to be too old by my parents after that, but was considered instead a chaperone for my younger brothers, someone had placed razor blades in oranges and several children had been seriously hurt.
When I worked as a paramedic in the US, years later, I was called out to take some children who had bitten into glass in candy to the emergency room for treatment.
It does happen, the police and local authorities do make announcements yearly.
In speaking to one of my brothers, in many places now, parents will only allow their children to go to 'vetted' houses, homes of other parents, people who have signed a special police register, and so on.
Gone are the carefree times, when you visited as many houses as you could. Sad really.
It still doesn't occur very often, there are not that many sadistic people out there, but it occurs often enough to cause worry. 99% of children will never have a bad experience, but the 1% causes nighmares for parents.
2007-10-06 05:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by whatotherway 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Many hospitals set up a halloween candy screening through some sort of imaging that is harmless to the candy but will pick up foreign objects in the candy.
2007-10-06 09:59:07 · answer #5 · answered by lightningelemental 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, there have been problems, such as razor blades in the chocolate. Since I was a child, I have always known that NONE of the candy is to be touched until the parents go through it first.
)o( Blessed Be!
2007-10-06 07:25:56 · answer #6 · answered by whillow95 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our local hospital runs the candy through a type of x-ray deal to check for anything that has been put into it.
Also, to keep kids in, the local malls have a trick or treat walk, inside going store to store as well as the zoo, and an amusement part...it's called frightfest, lol, but not to scary.
BB
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Trinity
2007-10-07 10:15:22 · answer #7 · answered by trinity 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine did. If anything looked like it had been unwrapped or tampered with, I couldn't have it. And I couldn't eat any homemade cookies, candies, etc. But I survived Halloween for years, there isn't actually that much risk.
2007-10-06 01:24:54 · answer #8 · answered by JavaGirl ~AM~ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is why small, individually wrapped chocolate bars, packs of potato chips, and bags of nuts are favorite forms of candy to hand out. :-)
2007-10-06 01:28:45 · answer #9 · answered by prairiecrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully parents are only taking children to people they know and not strangers.
2007-10-06 01:25:35 · answer #10 · answered by The_Watcher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋