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From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: soc.net-people,misc.headlines,misc.kids,misc.misc,news.misc,soc.misc
Subject: Re: Poison Holloween candy (was: Re: David's Last Wish IS A HOAX!!!)
Summary: One case known to one of Dallas's reporters
Keywords: holloween poison candy hoax fraud debunk
Message-ID: <6493@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 19 Dec 88 15:31:39 GMT
References: <4592@homxc.UUCP> <8544@alice.UUCP> <9651@drutx.ATT.COM>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <9651@drutx.ATT.COM>, brucer@drutx.ATT.COM (Bruce W. Robinson) writes:
 > In article <8544@alice.UUCP>, ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
 > We've all probably heard horror stories about poisoned holloween candy,
 > red hot nickles, razor blades or LSD in treats, etc.  Is this for real or
 > simply another example of an idea that survives because it is believable?
 > Other examples: tooth-fairy, god, fairness, democrats, and Amway :-)
 > 
 > There was an article recently in the (Boulder) Daily Camera newspaper
 > claiming that there has "never been a substantiated case of doctored
 > holloween treats", but they failed to adequately attribute the claim,
 > (just like I'm failing to properly attribute their article).
 > Does any netter have solid evidence of such Holloween malignancy?

There was an article in the Dallas Times Herald last Halloween (about
14 months ago for those who don't understand "last Halloween ;^) and
in it the reporter said that extensive research had uncovered only one
case of poisoned Halloween candy in the United States in the past 10
years: a father in Houston, Tx, had poisioned several pieces of candy
and "smuggled" them into the collections of his child (children?) and
those of several neighbors after getting a large insurance policy on
the children.  All the other reported cases turned out to be hoaxes.

 >       66
 >        >
 >        ^          ......brucer


Charles Marslett
chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us