Halloween Trick or Treating Spooked (AK Gov. Huckabee tells familes to forgo trick or treating)

Singapore-Reuters Wire ^ | Saturday October 20, 2001 | Sarah Tippit

[umbra]

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is discouraging parents from letting their kids going trick-or-treating at all on October 31.

Huckabee said he wasn't worried so much about a genuine anthrax or biological warfare attack as he was about the likelihood of a flood of calls from jittery parents about suspicious candy. "The last thing we need is for law enforcement to get a bunch of calls from parents who open their kid's bag, see Pixie sticks dust and think it's anthrax," Huckabee told reporters on Thursday.

"We simply don't have law enforcement resources to test every single Pixie stick and see if it's anthrax, which it won't be," the Republican governor said.

He encouraged parents to find other options this year such as Halloween parties at home or at church.

[jtill]

Our congregation is so small that we all know each other pretty well. Most of the congregation has small children and they would never hurt their own - let alone someone else's.

[juliabrock]

Because everyone knows everyone else. What does AIDS have to do with anything?

[MPB]

And you know, of course, exactly what I'm giving out - pixy sticks, instead of the usual candy bars, milk duds and whoppers. May even dress the part, LOL - I may even be able to scrounge up some Arabic music to play loudly in the background for all those soccer moms that walk their kids along.

I'm a really bad person.

You're also an idiot if you think that'd be funny in any way. Somehow over the years, the idea of sending your children out to knock on stranger's doors doesn't seem quite as good an idea as it once did when (I assume you're probaby 20-30 something) we were kids.

[mafree]

Dont Pixie sticks come in different colors than white powder?

Pixy Sticks don't come in white but some of the colors may be light enough to look white in certain light. I know- I still eat 'em and I'm in my 40s.

[MPB]

Pixy Sticks don't come in white but some of the colors may be light enough to look white in certain light. I know- I still eat 'em and I'm in my 40s.

I'm in my 30's and eat pop rocks still. Imagine some overly anxious parents hearing their kid say something about how "this candy is exploding in my mouth" :)

[Interesting Times]

Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat.

That's almost certainly not the case.

Here is some soothing bedtime reading.

[NSpiritOnly]

As a Grandmother I have worried with this issue a lot in the last couple of weeks.
My daughter is taking her children to the usual School Carnival in our very small town in Texas
and then to a few friends house. A lot of the stuff will be home made.

As for me being here in Kalifornia for now I was worried about what or if to give until I went to the store today and run into a great value. Buy one, get one free on 12 cans of coke products. So all my goblins will get Caffine Free Coke or 7up. Cost no more than candy and can not be tampered with and still keep its fiz. (6-12pks. for under $20.00)

[Whey]

I heard Bro.Huckabee speak at a Baptist Missionary National association meeting. That guy ROCKS. He has more common sense in his little finger than most politicians have in thier whole body.

[liliana]

i'd love to throw something at the little monsters myself.

[Texasforever]

It's got to be a challenge to be Governor of a state where you can terrorize adults with grape Pixie sticks.

Dog in the late 70's a man in Houston spiked pixie sticks with arsenic and fed them to his own kids and killed them for the insurance money. It killed Halloween in the Houston area for several years because of the copycats.

[GOPcapitalist]

What makes you think WJC and his brother will look at the color before they shove the things up their noses?

[P-Marlowe]

Sorry but how dumb are people in Arkansas?

ROFLMAO

[proud American in Canada]

The following is from Janet Parshall's email letter this morning:

"A RESOURCEFUL listener called us this week with a great idea she is promoting. She is encouraging parents and their children to change their Halloween practices by celebrating Kids Day USA 2001 (www.kidsdayusa2001.com), instead. This celebration encourages kids to dress up as prominent historical figures and to collect pennies in their trick-or-treat bags on October 31. The pennies would then be sent to the White House as part of the President's campaign to help the Afghan children."

[Lucky]

Read #26

[spectre]

"How dumb are people in Arkansas"?

HOW DUMB ARE CERTAIN FREEPERS ON THIS FORUM!!????

Some of you are ripping Arkansas and Huckabee apart and fail to understand he is a REPUBLICAN who has managed to clean this State up from the filth who used to manage itl.

FYI last evening, Showers of red, white and blue fireworks floated down over THOUSANDS of Arkansans celebrating the state's men and women in uniform, a surge of patriotism that filled the night sky.

The fireworks show--the largest in Arkansas history, capped a two-and-a-half hour patriotism-fueled festival filled with son, speeches, flag waving, prayer and camaraderie.

Funded by businessman and philanthropist Jennings Osborne and organized by the governor's office, the celebration to honor Arkansas' men and women in uniform fueled a flow of emotion. Fathers and mothers held their daughter and sons closely. Veterans stood reverenty at attention. Some cried.

THIS is the Governor you guys are making fun of. Go ahead, jerks. The whole Nation could use another Governor like him.

sw

[jimt]

An easy solution for the problem, aside from the sealed soft drinks, is to give away money. Get several rolls of quarters and give the kids 25 or 50 cents apiece. What's left over is easily usable and non-fattening.

Plus the kids like it pretty well too.

[keats5]

What's really scary are the kids that confuse pixie dust with fairy dust, who think they can fly off tall buildings.

Kids, they are not the same thing!

[Clemenza]

Yeah, Halloween died in my neighborhood on Lawn Guyland after rumors that people were putting razor blades in candy swept the area (this was around 1981-82 when I was about 5-6 years old).

[WyldKard]

Small Pox bacteria limited to 2 small viles - 1 in CDC in Atlanta, 1 in Secure Mil lab in Russia. No credible threat.

And if you believe that even the Soviets (infamous for making a mockery of every bio/chem weapons treaty we signed with them), at the very least, weren't playing around with breeding even more of this stuff, I've got some lovely beachfront property in Afganistan to sell you...

The only thing holding back Smallpox from being released today is that:

A) It would infect pretty much the rest of the world
B) The places that hate us the most would suffer the most. The First World Nations would pull through okay (USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, etc.) while countries with poorer healthcare would suffer tremendously (The Middle East, Africa, etc.) Even Russia would not do so well for itself, and can you imagine the biological conflageration China would have on their hands with a nation of 1.2 billion people? Or India, with their 1 billion?

[okie_tech]

I feel so sorry for your granddaughter.