[married21]

Every year people hear warnings about tampered-with Halloween candy. And yet, isn’t this one of those things that is in the “urban legend” category? Have there ever actually been ANY cases of sabotaged candy in America?

We have an absolutely gigantic amount of candy distributed every year in America, in a gesture of generosity to children that happens at every income level in every community. And just about nobody gets poisoned.

There really is still a lot of goodness in America.

[tumblindice]

I did a quick search: ‘Halloween candy tampering, 2013’ and right away found an incident of a razor blade in an apple last year.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Have there ever actually been ANY cases of sabotaged candy in America?

Yes, but it was dad trying to harm kill his kids for the life insurance money. They guy who did it gave the candy to five other children to cover his crime but only his son ate the candy.

[SamAdams76]

Every years since I was a boy, we had the annual scare stories about tainted Halloween candy. They even had the old "razor blade in apple" meme going on back then - though I think that was something us kids made up so that people would ditch the apples and just give us candy instead.

I grew up in a densely packed neighborhood so I cleaned up pretty good that time of year. My brother and I would collect candy by the pillowcase. If we had time, we'd change up our costumes and make the rounds again. Back then, they'd hand out full-sized candy bars. Not those "minis" that CVS and Wal-Mart sell by the truckload.