To worry about sweets from trick or treating…

[Backtoblack87]

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?!

Aren’t most sweets in sealed wrappers? Yeah I wouldn’t be keen on my child eating Haribo or Celebrations that are unwrapped but it will all come sealed. I reckon you’ll notice the difference between Parma Violets and MDMA.

So I’m a local nut job who has put some drugs in sweets and gone to the effort of resealing them. Then I give them to children who I never see again and I’m not there when they eat them. What am I getting out of this?

Did you figure it out when they all accidentally ran to Windsor?

When has it ever happened? It's the same urban legend repeated every year which Facebook and Mumsnet Huns then take as gospel.

This might help, though you need to listen to it, not just read the title and freak out.

https://timharford.com/2022/10/cautionary-tales-the-halloween-poisoner/

It's really no effort or a negative narrative. It's a genuine question.

I love Halloween, it's my favourite day of the year but I hate strangers knocking on my door it feels invasive.

Not many drinks are spiked with anything apart from more alcohol either and don't even get me started on the non existent "needle" spiking.

This is definitely the only sensible course of action.

I think if someone’s this worried about drugs/razors/poison in sweets, just don’t let your kid go ToT. Not really worth the anxiety, surely.

My kids have been given the dipping sauces from Domino's. That was a bit odd.

If someone wanted to drug your kids with roofie sweets then there would be little point if the kid walks away and has no contact with them?
Then eats the sweets at home?
Honestly I'd say if you're really fussy just make sure the sweets are all in sealed packets before letting them eat it?
Plus it would be obvious who did it (not that they would) as you know where they live.

Every single year a child receives drugs from a houses they've trick or treated at?

I must've missed the news bulletins?

Just to get this straight.

I’m walking down the street and a random person approaches me for no reason and asks me for money because he’s homeless. I’ve given no indication that I want to give anyone any money or help.
This is begging.

It’s Halloween, and according to the tradition in my area I have decorated my house and bought sweets in. The decorations show that I am willing to take part in handing out sweets. Children knock on my door as ask for the sweets that I have bought especially and don’t want to eat myself.
This is also begging.

Sour cream, I hope.

I didn't say anything about you. I have no idea who you are.

As for "what you are getting out of this," people who are unhinged do things which bring absolutely no benefit to them. That's the very characteristic of mental illness; a person who is sane will behave and act in a way that's to their own benefit. a person who is insane will not be so rational and will do things that benefit no one.

What benefit was it to this twat to contaminate supermarket food? Nothing. But he did it anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/26/man-held-on-suspicion-of-contaminating-food-in-west-london-shops

I worried about the quality, age etc of sweets given to my girls when trick or treating. I let my kids do it, kept the sweets from family and friends and binned the rest.

Well I've spent the last hour injecting jelly babies with crystal meth, so the OP is clearly on to something here.

You actually know that this is not what trick or treat refers to, right?

It is a question whether the homeowner wants to accept a trick, or is willing to provide a treat.

Make sure your children only eat things that have wrapping and check the wrapping. when I was growing up in the 80s there were instances (in the US) where people had put razor blades inside apples etc. So your fear is not totally unfounded.

This is why I would always eat every last bit of the trick or treat haul.

Taking one for the team.

Great parenting.

I’d be more scared of the Crack Fox out there in the dark, with its diet of Head and Shoulders...Toothpaste...and shit...biiiiiiiiig pieces of shit.

It's easy enough to not go trick or treating to avoid the risk all together. I don't do it but I thought the 'rules' were:
Only houses you know
Only wrapped sweets.
Which seems sensible from a safety/ food safety aspect.

On my way.

What kind of crack dens are you knocking at??

For what it’s worth I do kind of inspect the sweets when we get home / take out anything that looks a bit weird or is opened.