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?!

that's different though. spiking someones drink is to make them vulnerable in the near future. it's not like they're drugging local children in the hope they'll find them at some point in a compromised situation over the next few days as they work their way through their haul

I know a woman who gives out very out of date sweets, crisps and biscuits to kids trick or treating. That's probably as bad as it gets, I wouldn't worry about drugs. 😅

"Does this worry anyone else?"

No.

You sound absolutely neurotic. Get your anxiety in check.

I love you. Marry Me.

Only accept wrapped lollies

Bollocks

Ignore me PP I'm half asleep 😀😀😀

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And then send the kids to bed, take more and enjoy the ride.

Look at the price of haribos. Now look at the price of drugs. Nobody is going to give some random kid their expensive pharmaceuticals.

I would love that

They're at more risk from the sugar, or from being hit by a car as they cross the street

I always thought the sweets with razor blades was an urban myth .

Someone at work once said they replaced Ferraro rochers with Brussels sprouts at halloween and thought it was hilarious. She’s was an idiot anyway, but It did make me think though…

most sweets / treats are sealed, Like haribo is in a sealed mini packet, chocolate bars etc… are the same. but if something was individually wrapped, like single piece of sweet, a Rocher for example and not seal, then I would probably throw it away 😂

😆😆😆 give over

That looks to me like a letter to the newspaper rather than an article. In other words, the writer has no more authority than a Mumsnet contributor, and won't have been fact-checked.

It'd take about three seconds to find usages of 'trick OR treat' from the twentieth century. Hang on...

In North America, the earliest known occurrence of guising is from 1911, when children were recorded as having done this in the province of Ontario, Canada. The interjection "trick or treat!" was then first recorded in the same Canadian province of Ontario in 1917. Wikipedia

Agreed!

Drugs cost more than a sweet does. Why would someone give up their more costly drugs rather than a cheaper sweet? Makes no sense! 😅

I can't believe that after all these years this still comes up. There has never been a single case of a stranger poisoning children with Halloween candy. The only case turned out to be the father for insurance money. There have been a handful of cases of drugs, but that was people unintentionally giving it out. Children are far, far, more likely to be murdered by parents then by strangers.

It is, the cases that were discovered turned out that the kids put them in the candy, either for attention or as a prank

I suppose its surprising that no psycho serial killer has given out poisoned sweets to kids at Halloween really.
Especially in areas where there's loads going knocking, for example an inner city area or housing estates.

You get the feeling some posters are disappointed that children aren't coming to harm. That it would helpfully confirm their suspicions that Halloween is awful.

I don't get why anyone would let their kids eat something a stranger could have potentially done anything to.
Crushed up glass was put into chocolate of someone I know.
Don't go begging, just buy your kids some sweets.

Here you are...

Was it really? How did they open and reseal the chocolate?