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.

[zeaal]

Consider also that these two Costcos were the only ones we know of reporting large quantity purchases of candy. How many other stores may have had large purchases?

[Sabertooth]

Who knows? These were huge purchases. Multiple truckloads.

Could be others are slipping under the radar.

[MadameAxe]

I can't read the article at your New Yorker link. The page comes up with a blank area where the article should be.

[Interesting Times]

I can't read the article at your New Yorker link. The page comes up with a blank area where the article should be.

I'm not sure what's wrong -- I just brought it up without any problem.

Maybe it was just slow to load...

[MadameAxe]

OK, that's too weird; I tried it again and now it's there. Maybe a lot of people were trying to access it at the same time, earlier. I tried it about four times before with no success. Thanks.