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Xray candy, ever hear of it?
Speaking of a post below, I said we got our candy xrayed... When we were kids there was scares of razors and crap being in candy so the police dept did a 'bring candy down to station to get xrayed' thing.
Am I the only one who's heard of this?
Am I the only one who's heard of this?
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Re: Xray candy, ever hear of it?
I remember that shizz. We didn't get our candy x-rayed though. We went the ghetto way - our parents broke our candy into 3 or so pieces to check for razor blades & needles. It was messy, but effective.
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I'd believe it was the parents or "loved one" tainting the candy. I don't ever remember being 'scared' it was almost like a "fun" thing to do
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True story.
There is not one case where a child's Halloween candy was tampered with by anyone other than the child's own family. The only exception to that is in cases where the child who the tainted candy was intended for shared their candy with a friend.
The moral of the story is don't share candy. You never know who's parents are trying to bump off their kid.
I read a study on it once.
One girl was killed when her father replaced her pixie stick dust with arsenic. She shared with a few friends who were also killed or at least got very sick. No x-ray machine would pick that up.
As the OP said, razors end up put into things by parents, not neighbors. The preponderance of the evidence is in favor of not bothering to x-ray candy because it just doesn't happen.
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Yes, this was a big thing when I was a kid.