Talk:Poisoned candy myths

message: I remember a kid finding a razor blade in his Snickers bar last year... it was on the news around here.
Around where? Who are you and where do you live and what news source reported the story?
--Faith Likewater 19:47, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a source. -- MisterHand 14:23, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. The idiocy really is amazing, though...You would hope that professionals would be a little more careful with resources. PhatJew 20:37, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The moral of the story is:  don't get sick on halloween—the X-ray machine is in use.  Sorry folks, there's too much potentially mutilated candy ahead of you.  Tomertalk 05:05, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

text: "Safe" trick-or-treating in this context is when towns or cities hold trick-or-treating so that it falls in the middle of the day, during daylight hours, sometimes moving it to a Saturday or Sunday to accommodate parent work schedules. Some shopping malls have also started hosting a similar "safe" trick-or-treating event where parents can bring their children to the mall and go storefront to storefront gathering candy. 207.14.29.3 (talk) 15:12, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Rumors

message: This phenomenom is probably more international than the article portrays. In Spain in the 30's, during a demonstration a rumour spread that nuns were giving poisoned sweets to children and the demonstration turned into a mob sacking and burning a couple of churches. This happened in Malaga and is õften cited as an example of anti-clericalism during Spain's 2nd Republic, prior to the civil war. 88.11.56.36 20:33, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poisoned candy snare in 1930's Spain 

message: I just wanted to add that I clicked the Snopes link you sited and it says the Status is True, not False. I wonder if they changed it recently due to new information?
Shaeryn 22:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp  Says "true" now. AWC 3117 (talk) 22:29, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snopes says "True" 

message: Dear god, how STUPID can people get?  Just check the damn candy before feeding it to kids and don't take them to strange neighborhoods! jeeez! SilentWind 20:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easily fixed. 

message: There's a report of a family finding a razor blade in the loot bag this year in Toronto, though the article doesn't mention any particular item. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/toronto-family-finds-razor-blade-in-halloween-loot/article1347150/ 70.48.64.29 (talk) 15:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another instance in '09 

message: 216.81.50.149 added this to the article and not to the discussion:
don't know anything about editing the wiki but
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/03/bc-delta-candy-razor-blade.html
you guys probably want to work this in
138.162.8.58 (talk) 17:14, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Joel Best says that "police dismissed reports" of this event, in the 2011 revision of his article Halloween Sadism: The Evidence. --Avirr (talk) 01:01, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced suggestion by 216.81.50.149  

message: Razors in apples actually happened in 1967 and 1968 Halloween in Pleasantville, New Jersey. This was reported in a story in the New York Times of November 5, 1968, from UPI. There were thirteen found and several kids were injured. It led to a law being enacted in New Jersey. The idea that this was missed by this Joel Best is suspicious. This article has many problems, first of all being that candy tampering - razors in apples  is NOT a myth, it may not be a common occurrence, but it clearly has happened. We can assume that this story, being from United Press International, may have been picked up by many papers.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Evananda (talk • contribs) 15:07, 9 November 2015‎
:Or maybe we can assume that this story, being published a few days after Halloween, does not contain the results of the subsequent investigation.  It might be that razors in apples were found; that fact alone doesn't mean that the razors were put there by strangers.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:27, 16 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pleasantville, NJ 1967 & '68 - Razors in Apples TRUTH 

message: I find the ongoing existence of this Wikipedia page puzzling. I see news reports from mainstream reputable news organizations every year reporting incidents of Halloween candy tampering. Are we to assume, with no evidence, that not one of these reports is true?
A quick sampling from 2017 alone:
- Multiple incidents in Southern Ontario in 2017, including one girl hospitalized:
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/11/03/ontario-girl-11-hospitalized-after-eating-halloween-candy-that-contained-metal-object.html
- Two incidents in Nova Scotia, Canada:
http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/n-s-rcmp-investigate-after-needle-found-in-halloween-candy-1.3663652
- An incident from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/3840290/winnipeg-mom-finds-xanax-pills-in-kids-halloween-candy-bag/
- An incident from Denver, Colorado:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/11/04/dish-detergent-pods-halloween-candy/
- An incident from Omaha, Nebraska:
http://nypost.com/2017/11/02/boy-bites-into-halloween-candy-finds-needle/
Perhaps at some point these types of incidents were mythical or overblown, but it's not obvious that's the case anymore. While still rare, the possibility of tampered Halloween candy does seem to be a reality and not a myth.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.100.224.64 (talk) 21:11, 4 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 

message: There were, also in the 1970's, a slew of real tampering cases with Tylenol (and aspirin?) on the store shelves, with criminal intent to poison, extort, or cover up the real target of the murder(s).  I remember when the packaging was changed, nation-wide, as a result of these cases.  This is when we learned the phrase "tamper-proof."Starhistory22 (talk) 01:29, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Chicago Tylenol murders is linked in the article.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related to REAL Tampering Cases 

message: "Two Delta, B.C., residents have been charged with violations of the Cannabis Act after a local parent found edibles in their child’s Halloween candy last year.
The investigation led Delta police to a suspected illegal cannabis extraction lab in November 2020, where thousands of edibles, associated packaging, labelling materials and equipment were seized."
Is this link a good one for the article?
https://rock101.com/news/8332895/delta-bc-residents-charged-edibles-halloween-candy/
24.68.79.20 (talk) 05:53, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really.  Does it involve a malevolent stranger who is trying to kill children?  If not, then it doesn't belong on this page. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:02, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 Delta, B.C. residents charged after cannabis edibles found in Halloween candy last year 

message: This has actually happened, granted not all claims are true but it does happen.  To say this is a myth is dangerous. Gridlerbing (talk) 10:31, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Gridlerbing, please see the FAQ at the top of this page.  If you can cite multiple, independent sources about a stranger being convicted of poisoning a child through Halloween activities, or even of trying to harm one or more children, please share them. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:37, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wigan UK true case 

message: I removed the statement that "No cases of strangers killing or permanently injuring children this way have been proven." (as of when? by whom? the editor?) which cited an online magazine that said "Trust me: No one has ever poisoned a stranger's kid with Halloween candy."  
Come on folks, we should be pointing to authoritative sources, and then putting that claim in context.   "As of 2023, the FBI states that ... " [citation]
Also, for these types of positions a good starting place is Argument from ignorance  • Bobsd •  (talk) 18:33, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As Emily Litella would say... Never-mind.  After chatting with WhatamIdoing, I concur with having the statement in the lede.  I had not realized that the citation was from a reputable source.  • Bobsd •  (talk) 23:22, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "No cases have been found" and similar unbounded, declarative statements