To worry about sweets from trick or treating…

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Just had a horrible thought… when we go trick or treating, what if we are given dodgy sweets? I mean I know it isn’t likely but unless you know everyone you go to, how can you guarantee they aren’t giving your kid drugs?! Does this worry anyone else?!

I’m definitely going to eat all the sweets my DD gets, just to make sure…

It's not for nothing.

The littles get all dressed up in costumes and they're very cute.

I look on a little bag of Haribo or a treat size chocolate as fair payment for giving me a little bit of joy on a dark winter's evening.

Just watch out in case anybody gives them sugar-free gummy bears under the radar!

'Asking strangers to give you sweets for nothing'.

That's much better, because that's exactly what it is.

It's not begging 👍

Link if you're interested.

Trick and treating, being itinerant by nature, doesn't seem a likely opportunity for trying to recruit kids for county lines.

Yes, that's the usual accepted custom, but you do get some entitled children in certain areas - more often teenagers than little kids - who conveniently ignore this understanding and knock on every door anyway.

Why would anyone want to give their drugs away?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8wanaz8aj2g&feature=youtu.be Let him do the worrying

Nobody does trick or treating round here, thankfully, so the problem doesn't arise.

It does happen

When i was younger, after T or T we were sharing out the stash and there was a dodgy looking pack of crisps, it was sealed back together at the top, upon opening it, it had some blue stuff inside,
No idea what it was and we just threw it away

The Same halloween someone tried to pull my friend into their house

It was around 1995, we were about 12 and out on our own, we didnt tell our parents 😳

I cannot believe how everyone is telling OP they’re being ridiculous when this exact, or very similar, thing happens every single year…

I dunno. Coming home with overhyped small children, up past bedtime and clutching a bag of sweets the likes of which they've never seen before - the parents deserve a little something something surely.

Oh, come on. Who is actually going to be go to that trouble. I don't know anyone who has ever experienced anything like that. Plus, coating sprouts in chocolate might be quite nice...

I think it's a fair point OP and the answer is only take the children to friends and neighbours, it's what we used to do, and most who knocked here were known families too.

I beg your pardon?!?!?!?! £30?!?!!

Does it? I don’t recall it being on the news.

Halloween is a celebrated day throughout the world with roots in religion and culture that date back hundreds of years. Of which people can choose to partake in or not.

For years round here the message that is given on social media and by word of mouth is that you go to people’s houses who are clearly participating ie decorated or has signs to say trick or treaters welcome. Plenty of people also have signs to say they’re not welcome but I have yet to see children knock on doors of people that aren’t clearly taking part. Most children are respectful of other people’s peace and privacy and those that wouldn’t be generally are those who wouldn’t be any other night of the week either. I live in a very rural place so if we can convey this message to our children then there’s no reason anyone else can’t.

Not remotely the same as them begging as the act of begging usually means being hassled randomly for gains and are unwelcome. People teach their children not to knock on doors of people who aren’t participating and instead go to ones that are. It’s not difficult. If you don’t like it then don’t participate but don’t be a misery for those who do or try and shame children for having fun by joining in a tradition that is literally centuries old. Hardly bizarre.

I pay nearly £80 for a bag of 25 (THC) gummies.
Like fuck am I giving those^^ out.

There is surely some covert way to tell which houses are the ones giving out free drugs? Somebody must know and can post the tell tale signs (just so the OP can avoid them, obvs)

What's the difference between asking strangers to give you something for nothing and begging?

Oh I'm the opposite, I give them it as a bribe to quickly go away before they start screaming or wetting themselves or something.

Or before they start telling that joke about crossing a vampire with a snowman and getting frostbite. Away with you!

🤣

Somewhat bizarre that lots of people are feigning disbelief at the idea of someone giving away drugs for free, when that's literally what people do when they spike drinks in nightclubs.

The world is full of weirdos. Just avoid sweets from strangers.

Those "strangers" are neighbours who happily participate in the tradition, they leave lit pumpkins outside of their house to invite children and everyone has a lot of fun.
You're honestly putting a lot of effort into twisting things to suit your negative narrative. Or maybe you don't understand Halloween.