Ever have to get Halloween candy x-rayed at a hospital? It's all the fault of one man.
We lived down in Pasadena, TX, next to Deer Park in the 70’s, and, yes, people were very cautious about Halloween. Lots of festivals, little trick/treating.
I remember it caused panic all across the USA
Big Media uses three names for this murderer, Ronald Clark O’Bryan, but prefers to use the Fraud’s pet name for Robert Bowdrie Bergdahl.
Fascinating. Had no idea X-Rays can reveal cyanide!
Isn’t untainted Haloween candy bad for you?
This guy was also a Deacon of his Church!
I used to be a firefighter just outside of DC. One house fire where 2 children died, both under 8 yo. It was detrrmined that the parents put the kids down for a nap and set the house on fire, then walked to the corner store. All for $100,000.00 insurance.
There was the heated penny scare, and the needle in the candy bar scare. Thankfully I lived when it was still safe to Trick-or-treat.
I got a rock.
I’ll never forget that sweet little boy and that murdering monster Timothy called dad. You bet he was the man who killed Halloween........for generations of trick or treaters. Thank God O’Brien was given some good ol’ Texas justice but it’s too bad his death wasn’t anywhere close to what that little boy went through.
No it’s nit. Folks in California were putting razor blades and needles in apples before1974
There are sick people out there
I didn’t see one trick or treater tonight
I enjoy halloween. My wife liked to set out a table and chairs on the driveway and invite the neighbors over as a one stop shop for the kids. I’ve continued the tradition since her passing. It’s much more fun to sit outside to see the little ones, and chat up their parents a bit. In years past we’d have water for the kids and adult beverages for the parents as well. I love it when the parents get into it. My favorite this year was a dad in a full-on Tin-Man suit, his wife was Glenda the Good Witch, and Dorothy was a tiny little girl that was a bit on the shy side. It was too cute.
Feh. It was cyanide. It was the razor blade in the apples that started the x-ray craze. Whether or not there has been a recorded instance, parents are smart to be cautious as it is such a fat target and the world is so evil now.
Though parents come along with the kids, (something that did not happened in the 50s-60s when I was a kid) and cop cars patrol and turn on their lights to the kids delight) it still was stress free and the number of little kids (princesses and superheroes still at the top of the heap) easily got the better part of my seven pounds of Snickers.