It's been decades since I last heard of tainted candy or razors in apples.

[RandySF]

Is it safe to 'Trick or Treat' in 2015?

[arcane1]

1. Now we're supposed to believe they're giving out perfectly good ecstasy.

And kids are somehow going to chew them up and think it's candy

[valerief]

2. Kids haven't trick or treated in my neighborhood for years, so I haven't

bought candy for years.

[ohheckyeah]

5. I buy it

"just in case" - just in case I get a chocolate craving.

[valerief]

7. Ha! That's why I DON'T buy it. The kids won't come for it, but I might actually eat it. nt

[KamaAina]

3. Tainted candy and razors are SO last century, dude.

Get with the program. The danger these days is pot edibles.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027302972

[Throd]

4. I doubt it ever really happened in the first place. n/t

[TexasBushwhacker]

9. Very few cases of tainted candy given to neighborhood

kids. There was one true case of a child being poisoned by his own father to get insurance money. You can read about it here:

http://m.chron.com/crime/article/Poisoned-Halloween-candy-True-story-behind-urban-6593573.php

The urban myth was also perpetuated by the advice columns "Ask Ann Landers" and "Dear Abby",

[Mariana]

6. Have there ever actually been any poisonings

by tainted trick or treat candy? I seem to remember that there was a murder of a kid that the perpetrator tried to blame on tainted candy, and I also remember hearing about a kid who got into the parent's drug stash at Halloween time and overdosed. It's been forever since anyone has given out apples, so if there were any real cases of people putting razor blades in them and handing them out, it was before my time.

[Snobblevitch]

8. I remember back in the day when local hospitals offered to x-ray Halloween candy.

I don't really remember if those x-rays actually ever happened, but I do know that there never were any incidents in which candy was found with razor blades or needles in them.

When my oldest brother's boys were trick or treating I gave each of them a full size Snickers bar with a ten inch nail poked through them.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Yes, and it always has been

The whole "creepy people" putting razor blades in apples and poison in candy is an urban myth.

[CTyankee]

11. It's why we have indivdually wrapped candy now, IIRC...

I have already dipped into the little Tootsie Roll packages cuz I love the chocolate...

[Iggo]

12. Yep. And it was safe back then, too.

[B Calm]

13. The TV show The Goldbergs this week showed mom putting a razor in an apple.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. WTF? That's not funny! n/t

[B Calm]

15. She did it to show her youngest son what to look out for. Then before the boy

seen it, dad threw it into the trash. She was in hysterics running around the block stealing bags of candy from kids. It was funny. .

[Mendocino]

16. Freaks and Geeks

There was an episode where kindly Mrs Weir was rebuffed by the kids when she tried to give out homemade snacks for fear of this sort of stuff. Broke her heart.

[OhioChick]

17. Razor blade found in Ohio trick-or-treat candy

9:57 AM, Oct 30, 2015

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - Ohio police are reminding parents to inspect the candy their trick-or-treaters collect on Halloween after a razor blade was found in a candy bar.

Reynoldsburg police began investigating Thursday after they said a food item was found to be contaminated with a "hazardous substance." According to WBNS in Columbus , a razor blade was found in a bite-sized Snickers bar.

Police said they were reviewing the circumstances and inspecting other candy given out in that area.

Parents should inspect all food items before they are consumed by a child.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/state/razor-blade-found-in-ohio-trick-or-treat-candy