Xref: utzoo misc.misc:4245 news.misc:2467 soc.misc:1006 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!se-sd!bhoule From: bhoule@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Bill Houle) Newsgroups: misc.misc,news.misc,soc.misc Subject: Re: Poison Holloween candy Keywords: holloween poison candy hoax fraud debunk Message-ID: <1712@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com> Date: 20 Dec 88 19:27:10 GMT References: <6493@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Reply-To: bhoule@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Bill Houle) Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego Lines: 30 [cross-posts detected....] [reducing...] [done...] In article <6493@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US writes: > >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. > Hmmm. My parents told me about this insurance+candy scam, only they said it was a resident just up the hill from their house (in beautiful suburban El Cajon, CA). It was cyanide or strychnine (I'm not up on my poisons...) put into the kids' Pixie Stix. Could this be another in the long line of Urban Legends? Bill +------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+ Bill Houle | Bill.Houle@sandiego.ncr.com NCR Corporation | bhoule@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com Systems Engineering - San Diego | {nosc,ucsd}!ncr-sd!se-sd!bhoule 9900 Old Grove Road, San Diego, CA 92131 | (619) 693-5593 +------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+