organize in home Halloween parties for your kids and the neighborhood,don't

[sam sarrha]

let them run around and get candy from jeffery Dhamer types..

help them make several Pinatas with news paper and flower paste, decorate with crape paper.. the roles of lite colored paper.. make games .. etc

google: make a pinata... i takes a few days.. its fun and they can learn something

http://www.elisakleven.com/pinstruct.html

[cmd]

1. Go out trick or treating with your kids.

You don't need to visit a hundred houses. Just go to your neighbor's houses. It's far more fun than parties that are like birthday events. Let kids be kids. Just supervise them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Snopes says tales of poisoned Halloween candy are urban legends.

"Claim: Police have documented cases of madmen randomly distributing poisoned goodies to the little tykes who come calling on Halloween.

Status: False.

Origins: Tales of black-hearted madmen doling out poisoned Halloween candy to unsuspecting little tykes have been around forever — they were part of my Halloween experience nearly forty years ago. And every year sees the same flurry of activity in response to such rumors: radio, TV and newspapers issue dark warnings about tampered candy and suggest taking the little ones to parties instead of collecting goodies door-to-door. Even Ann Landers published a column in 1995 warning us against the mad poisoner, saying, "In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy." (Recent years? Poison?)

It's a sadness that a holiday so thoroughly and greedily enjoyed by kids is being sanitized out of existence in the name of safety. Sadder still is there appears to be little reason for it. "

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp

So let the kids go out and have fun. Watch them, supervise them, but don't take away a fun holiday.

[Jcrowley]

3. I'm not sure

Yes there are crazy and dangerous folk out there but I'd say all in all not as much as Fear Nation would have us believe. What about dashing through the crisp, fallen leaves on Hallows Eve? What about the magic of the night? The thrill of it all as a child was roaming the town in costume with the rest of the children's voices and dreams echoing in the streets. Do we sufficiemtly feel the loss?

[niallmac]

4. We enjoy one neighborhood famous for it's Halloween efforts.

This town is still small enough that everyone knows everyone. I especially like
Halloween on an election year. This neighborhood is mostly blue and the
competing jabs at republicans are usually pretty funny.

[KoKo]

5. Yep...let them get all "gluey" with "pinata paper" filled with Lead and

other chemicals from CHINA...and enjoy their Halloween safe from KoKo01 and her Hubby and family..who are Jeffrey Dahlmer in diguise...:-(

I guess Halloween isn't what it used to be these days with the Bush Crime Family in Charge of America!

Keep your kids home or going to the Fundie Church "Harvest Nights" so that they never do "TRADITION" of "Trick or Treat" in their local neighborhood.

Hey! it's GOOD. I have cut back my candy purchases every year since the Buchco Fundies have been in power! I have few kids coming to my home. I won't even bother to decorate for the kids this year.

To Hell with TRADITIONS! Hey....I can "go with the flow" and save mucho money in candy purchases. What the Hell...who cares anymore with the FASCISTS in charge. :shrug:

[Ninja Jordan]

8. lol awesome post

lol China

[seabeyond]

6. we have been putting the poison candy for way too long. leave the

kids alone and let them have fun on halloween. we will be. our family and extended family will all be at my house puffing out fog, eerie noises, skeltons, graves... lots of candy and glow sticks

not going to buy into the be afraid scenerio

[catmandu57]

7. I'm sick of fear

you can only be afraid so long and it's wearing awfully goddamned thin. There's been stories of poisoned candy razor blades in apples since I was a kid. Halloween is supposed to be fun for kids, around here it will be.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. You're kidding...right?

Let your kids go Trick or Treating FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!

Sheesh....

Of course, there are Jeffrey Dahmer types at every other door, along with pedophiles, child molesters and madmen. Yes, the entire country is waiting to do harm to the children of their neighbors.

Sorry, but i have made a few silly posts and comments on DU in the past but i have a hard time buying this silliness.

[Stuckinthebush]

10. Oh, hell no!

Let the kids trick or treat! At-home Halloween parties can be as lame as church sponsored "fall festivals".

The odds of some "Dhamer type" hurting your child on halloween are worse than that child being hit by a space rock while trick or treating.

The old razor-in-the-apple ho hum has been out there since practically the beginning of the holiday festivities.

Get a sheet, put some holes in it, sing a song to the Great Pumpkin, throw it on your kid, give them a bag, and when they get home try to bargain for the good pieces of candy.

Happy Halloween!!!!

BOO!

[MichiganVote]

11. When I grew up there was this one crazy old guy how used to

walk up and down his driveway protesting Halloween with a shotgun over his shoulder. We used to just cross the street until the neighborhood father's talked him into putting the firearm away.
He always put it away and we always went back across the street.

[madmusic]

12. Myths and reality

Over the years various experts have tried to debunk the various candy tampering stories. Among this group is Joel Best, a University of Delaware sociologist who is considered the foremost expert on candy tampering. In his studies he researched newspapers from 1958 on in search of candy tampering. Of these stories fewer than 90 instances might have qualified.

Upon closer examination nearly all of these claims were false or hoaxes created by the child. Within the reports of candy tampering Best has only found five child deaths that were initially thought to be caused by homicidal strangers.

In 1970, a 5-year-old boy died after eating his uncle's hidden heroin stash. The family tried to protect the uncle by creating a story about drugs being found in the child's Halloween candy.

In a 1974 case, an 8-year-old Houston boy died after eating a cyanide-laced package of Pixy Stix. A subsequent police investigation eventually determined that the poisoned candy had been planted in his trick-or-treat pile by the boy's father, who also gave out poisoned candy to other children in an attempt to cover up the murder. The motive for the murder was an insurance fraud.

In the remaining cases, no evidence of drugs or poisoning was found. It may ultimately be moot, as eating large amounts of simple carbohydrates has always had a toxic effect.

http://www.answers.com/topic/poisoned-candy-scare

[TlalocW]

13. I'm a sicko - I like hearing the kids scream on Halloween

That's why I hand out cans of beets and creamed corn to trick-or-treaters.

TlalocW

[Arugula Latte]

14. Trick or treating: The best American tradition EVAH!

I will not let my kids miss out on that! We have sooo much fun on Halloween. The adults take wine in paper cups, the kids run around, the neighborhood is magical. Oh hell no, we'll never turn our back on trick-or-treating (until they're too old ... :cry: )

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. We only trick or treat at homes we know.

[catmandu57]

16. I got a rock

Avoid Halloween poison candy hand out rocks.

[lapfog_1]

17. The trick-or-treaters are in much larger danger of being

hit by cars...

dressed in costume (some BLACK), running around excited about Halloween. Running to catch up
groups of older kids. Mix that with the increase of Halloween's popularity with adults now (parties
with alcohol) as compared to 35 or 40 years ago when I was a tyke out trick or treating.

you have a good idea, but it's not deranged jeffery dhamers they need worry about, just their
neighbor joe sixpack driving to a party.

[jmowreader]

18. There's a very simple way to keep your kids safe this Halloween

Just take a quick look at the back of the cars in the driveway.

"Bush Cheney 2004" sticker on the car? Following the example set by their lord and master, your kids will leave this house with less candy than they had before they went.

Jesus fish? They pass out Chick tracts. And they're not even the good ones with the guffawing demons. They're the sorry-ass ones about how you can go to hell after being on the mission field for 50 years, and the one where the atheists started torturing Christians and their kid Bobby went to hell for not saying the Sinner's Prayer when we all figured he'd go to hell for being a Nazi.

"Clinton" sticker? Decent candy. Birth control devices for the older kids.

"Grateful Dead" sticker? They pass out joints. Make the kids wait at the curb, knock on the door yourself.

"Kerry Edwards 2004" sticker? Little jars of pickles.

"2006 Member American Dental Association" stickers are in front of homes that pass out toothbrushes.

"Life Member American Dental Association" stickers are in front of homes that pass out Sugar Daddies, Taffy, Kraft Caramels and other revenue-enhancing candies that you can't get off your teeth with a paint scraper.

"It's A Child, Not A Choice" stickers are in front of homes that have the "Hell House" set up in the back yard. The kids will learn all about the evils of abortion, atheism, abortion, Islam, abortion, the Democratic Party, abortion, Judaism, abortion, homosexuality, abortion, women's rights, abortion, sheep fucking and...oh yeah, abortion. At the end you get a free Plastic Fetus keychain. These houses get "egged" with balloons full of roof coating.

"Impeach Bush" stickers are in front of homes you don't want to go to ten minutes after trick-or-treating opens. These guys were passing out full-sized Snickers bars. Unfortunately, they only had a thousand of them and they went quick.

"Support the American Apple Grower" stickers are in front of homes that have the best homemade caramel apples, and a real fireman who helped make the apples is handing them out as kind of a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval so your mom won't throw them away when you get home.

"Support the American Onion Grower" stickers are in front of homes that are passing out onions. These houses get "egged" with live hand grenades.

"Republican National Committee" stickers have Jeffrey Dahmer behind the door. Cannibalism is a True Publican Fambly Value.