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	Poisoned candy scare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poisoned candy scare, from the 1970s and early 1980s, refers to a moral panic in the United States regarding the threat that children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by senseless, malicious tampering.
		In general, however, the poisoned candy fright is considered to be false altogether and certainly blown out of proportion by the news media.
		In the early 1980s the old legendary poisoned candy scare on Halloween grew to occupy a central role in the public attention, with local news stations featuring frequent coverage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poisoned_candy (293 words)

	Trick or Treat & Halloween history
		Candy companies work hard all year to ensure that they earn a spot on your “Return List” (The Return List consists of all of those houses that you hit a second time because they are offering the good stuff).
		It was determined that his father had intentionally poisoned him to collect on the insurance.
		Halloween candy is so much more than chocolate and nuts, it’s a great equalizer, a time traveler wrapped in cellophane.
	ky.essortment.com /halloweenhistor_ryqj.htm (956 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Horrors (Halloween Poisonings) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		To qualify as a Halloween poisoning, poisoned candy has to be handed out on a random basis to children as part of the trick-or-treating ritual inherent to Halloween.
		Though the case was circumstantial (no one saw the father poison the candy or slip the Pixie Stix into the boy's bag), Ronald O'Bryan was convicted of the murder in May 1975.
		The packages contained dog biscuits, steel wool pads and the ant buttons (which were clearly marked "Poison" with a skull and crossbones.) She also took the precaution of telling the teenagers that the packages were a joke when she handed them out, and there is no record of anyone being harmed by her actions.
	www.snopes.com /horrors/poison/hallowee.htm (2087 words)

	Poisoned candy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The poisoned candy scare, from the 1970s and early 1980s, refers to a moral panic in the United States regarding the threatthat children could be in danger of ingesting razor blades, needles, or poison introduced to candy by senseless, malicious tampering.
		Several cases of poisoning related to candy are known but most of them weren't valid, although they contributed to the overallpanic and perhaps sparked new incidents as well.
		To this day, fire departments and hospitals encourage parents to bring their Halloween candy to be x-rayed or scanned by metal detectors for insertedrazors or needles.
	www.therfcc.org /poisoned-candy-185209.html (146 words)

	OCRegister.com Investigations
		The candy is a sticky pulp made from the pods of the tamarind tree.
		Few understand the effects of lead poisoning, even though the bags of greta are printed with serious warnings not to breathe it, to wash hands after using it and to keep it away from cooking areas.
		A sales representative from one of Mexico's largest candy companies estimates that 15 percent of all tamarind candy in Mexico still comes in the traditional ceramic pots, many of which are made with the lead- based glaze.
	www.ocregister.com /investigations/2004/lead/part4.shtml (3853 words)

	Barbarian Answers Your Questions! Archive for 01 November 2000.
		The reports of poison or drugs have is almost every incident been either testing errors, attempts at a cover up, or deliberate poisoning of a specific individual.
		Analysis of some of his Halloween candy did indeed show that it had been sprinkled with heroin, but a police investigation concluded that this was not the work of some community madman targeting children at random.
		he whole poisoning and tampering scare was reinvigorated in 1982 with the "Tylenol Murders." These real cases of poisoning only muddled the stories about tampered candy even more, especially with copycats trying to use the situation to their advantage.
	pages.ripco.net /~barbarian/archive_01NOV00.html (819 words)

	Poisoned Halloween Treats no More than a Publicity Trick
		In all that time, there have been three incidents of children dying in what were reported as cases of tainted candy, but even these had nothing to do with homicidal strangers.
		boy was intentionally poisoned by his father, who then made up the story about contaminated candy.
		Even though her parents immediately notified the authorities about their daughter's heart condition, television, radio and newspapers blared shocking news reports of poisoned Halloween candy.
	www.cei.org /gencon/019,03744.cfm (545 words)

	DANGERS IN THE HALLOWEEN CANDY…A MYTH
		We are all familiar with the fact that every year, hundreds of children are poisoned or injured by ingesting tainted Halloween candy.
		Tales of tampered candy and others like it are based more on our unreasonable collective fears, fueled by the media and hearsay, than on factual information.
		During this brief moment in time, there were various objects inserted into Halloween candy, and poisons introduced into non-Halloween foods and medicines, however, no significant injuries were reported over the Halloween weekend.
	thefolklorist.com /pressreleases/dangers%20in%20the%20candy.htm (582 words)

	OCRegister.com: Toxic Treats, Introduction
		Candies were counted as high if they met or exceeded the state's level of concern for lead.
		In 2003, candy was suspected as a source of lead poisoning nearly as often as paint, county records show.
		Candy in clay pots - tamarind jam contained in a tiny ceramic tea cup - is harder to find since the state warned the public about four of these brands.
	www.njcitizenaction.org /news/lead005.html (17504 words)

	spiked-life \| Article \| Scared silly over Halloween
		Poisoned candy, murder, automobile accidents, molestation, fire, suffocation: an American reports on the new panic.
		Candy is something you collect only from people you know - all other candy is thrown away or used as tokens.
		Poisoned candy, murder, automobile accidents, molestation, fire, suffocation.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000002D2BC.htm (584 words)

	Palestinian Propaganda
		That Israeli helicopters had dropped poisoned candy in Gaza and in the West Bank and that the PA was now warning their children to avoid this dangerous and evil Israeli plot.
		The IDF laughed in response to the report saying: "The IDF condemns the ridiculous Palestinian claim according to which the IDF is scattering poisoned chocolate from the air to Palestinian children.
		We invite the general media to investigate Palestinian claims of "poisoned candy" and the use of a cease-fire as being a "trick".
	www.israelpr.com /poison.html (503 words)

	PA: Israel is poisoning the Palestinians with candy - Likud of Holland
		He based his suspicion upon four peculiar cases of poisoning as a result of touching and smelling candy bags that were dropped from an Israeli airplane at Beit Lahia north to Gaza City.
		The IDF Spokesperson strongly condemns the ridiculous Palestinian claim according to which "the IDF is scattering poisoned chocolate from the air to Palestinian children".
		It is redundant to state that this claim is groundless, and is a further level in the Palestinian incitement campaign, and a further example of its lack of credibility.
	www.likud.nl /extr112.html (233 words)

	The Cooking Inn : Lead in Candy
		Ever since an episode of CSI where an individual died of lead poisoning from eating candy I had hoped it was only something on a script and not in real life.
		In nearly every case, the candy - mostly marketed to Latino kids - stayed on store shelves and no action was taken against the Mexican manufacturers, the Orange County Register reported in Sunday's editions, citing state and federal records.
		Concerns about lead poisoning led to a ban on lead-based house paint in the 1970s and on lead compounds in gasoline in the 1980s.
	www.thecookinginn.com /leadcandy.html (564 words)

	Stupid People Tricks
		In the classical version of this UL one of the essential ingredients is someone who randomly gives poisoned or otherwise tampered with treats to children - not the targeting of certain children - the randomness adds to the horror.
		The pin in the candy or the razor blade in the apple are also among the canonical versions of this one.
		Documented: A Texas child was poisoned in this manner by his father on Halloween in 1974.
	tafkac.org /faq2k/stupid_210.html (263 words)

	The Brownsville Herald » Search for answers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		These 10 community activists, or promotoras, are tired of losing their battle to protect the children of California from the toxic treats the state government usually ignores, treats that the Mexican government says are too difficult to regulate.
		U.S. candy industry lobbyists tried to convince lawmakers that the federal government was taking care of lead in candy — even though the federal government had no such plans.
		During national Lead Poisoning Prevention Week in October 2001, Ayala and her group went to the dulcerias along San Diego’s Imperial Avenue, a street that would not look out of place in Tijuana.
	www.brownsvilleherald.com /print.php?id=59064_0_10_0 (1740 words)

	Adulterated Halloween Candy
		The authors traced back stories of poisoned food at Halloween and found that each case was without foundation.
		She was angry that so many of the trick or treaters were too old to beg for candy.
		A second concern is that concentrating on the possibility of adulterated candy might deflect attention away from real threats, such as assault and car accidents.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hallo_ap.htm (819 words)

	Untitled1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The bolirindo candy is a soft, dark brown, tamarind fruit lollipop on a white or orange-striped stick.
		Lead poisoning is the number one environmental health threat to children under six years of age.
		According to data provided by the EHC, childhood lead poisoning is also considered to be the most preventable environmental disease of those affecting young children.
	www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/october26/2dulces.htm (678 words)

	Bowling for Columbine : Get Involved : The Culture of Fear
		The chocolate ‘candy’ bar may be a laxative, the bubble gum may be sprinkled with lye, the popcorn balls may be coated with camphor, the candy may turn out to be packets containing sleeping pills.”
		He uncovered a few incidents where children received minor cuts from sharp objects in their candy bags, but the vast majority of reports turned out to be old-fashioned hoaxes, sometimes enacted by young pranksters, other times by parents hoping to make money in lawsuits or insurance scams.
		A psychiatrist quoted in the New York Times article held that Halloween sadism was a by-product of “the permissiveness in today’s society.” The candy poisoner him- or herself was not directly to blame, the doctor suggested.
	www.bowlingforcolumbine.com /involved/fear/06.php (657 words)

	Terrorists Buying Trick-or-Treat Candy? - BreakTheChain.org
		I do not know the intentions of the person who purchased all this candy, but in today's time I do not think it is crazy to be overly cautious.
		The possibility of this candy being tainted and resold to unknowing discount distributors and then passed on to unknowing consumers is too great.
		The arabic that got caught was illegally in the country and the FBI thinks the candy is a way to spread the Anthrax virus.
	www.breakthechain.org /exclusives/costcocandy.html (783 words)

	halloween candy man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In his introduction to Halloween Candy, author Thomas M. Sipos refers to it...
		Though some candy ingredients may look or sound scary, there is nothing ghoulish...
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	www.gethalloweeninfo.com /7/halloween-candy-man.html (386 words)

	Halloween urban legends all bark, no bite
		In 1974, Ronald Clark O'Bryan of Pasadena, Texas, poisoned the candy of his children and a neighbor's children with cyanide.
		The "candy man," as he was dubbed by his death-row colleagues, paid the ultimate price with a lethal injection on March 31, 1984.
		"The reason we don't provide the X-rays of Halloween candy anymore is because the medical legal issues are too daunting to provide this service, not to mention the unnecessary radiation to the technologist to perform the procedure," she said.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/1030urbanlegend30.html (1186 words)

	Poisoned candy Definition / Poisoned candy Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The poisoned candy scare, from the 1970s and early 1980s, refers to a moral panicA moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society.
		These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
		Poisoned candy is a label/ distributor for DIY hardcore/ punk rock coming from the Montana area.
	www.elresearch.com /Poisoned_candy (153 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		But according to sociologist Joel Best, that bag of candy is one less thing parents should be scared about on fright night.
		He also compared the scare over Halloween candy to the Red Scare in the 1950s, saying that both fears were produced with just modest evidence.
		In the 15 years he has been on the force, he has never had a suspicion or a legitimate case of a stranger poisoning Halloween candy, but he said it is always best to be safe in all aspects of the holiday.
	herald.elburn.com /features/f387.htm (1081 words)

	10/30/01: Jesse Jackson is a lying doomsayer. Here's the truth about "tainted" candy. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A study of national criminal data back to 1958 found only 76 reports of any kind of tampering, almost all of which were fraudulent or mistaken.
		The second case involved a father intentionally poisoning his son then blaming it on tainted candy.
		Although her parents immediately notified the authorities about their daughter's heart condition, the media ran shocking news reports of yet another incident of poisoned Halloween candy.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/bones/125/7.html (286 words)

	Beware of Pixie Stix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One case was reported a student, who requested to remain anonymous, after attending his company Halloween party where candy bags were given to all employees.
		Authorities have not confirmed the poisoned candy because they do not want to frighten people even more than they already are regarding anthrax scares.
		“To qualify as a Halloween poisoning, poisoned candy has to be handed out on a random basis to people as part of the trick-or-treating ritual inherent to Halloween,” said Sweet.
	www.ius.edu /journalism/HArchives/102901pixiestix.html (352 words)

	What's Really in Your Halloween Candy? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is an unfortunate fact that most imported candies are produced in third-world countries with little or no sanitation enforcement.
		The odds are one-in-four that a "fun size" candy bar has been replaced with a powerful cathartic.
		Hundreds of people are killed or injured each year when their car's airbag deploys, forcing the candy down their throat.
	www.thespeciousreport.com /2004/04041026halloween.html (469 words)

	old fashioned candy \| old fashioned candy information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	www.mrschocolate.com /candy/oldfashionedcandy (1502 words)

	Daily Chronicle Online
		Although receiving razor blades or poisoned Halloween candy is highly unlikely, little monsters should be aware of other Halloween dangers.
		Although the press has reported tales of poisoned candy for years, Sycamore Police Lt. Cary Singer said he has heard of no local cases of razor blades or poison put in Halloween treats, but "anything is possible."
		He said that all candy should be checked before children eat it and parents should dispose of any homemade or unsealed goodies.
	www.daily-chronicle.com /articles/2003/10/30/news/news03.txt (455 words)

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