On 2013-10-20 22:59:15 +0000, jmcquown said:

> I've heard stories about this since I was a teenager.
>
> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...1020-Weekender
>
>
> or
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> http://tinyurl.com/18r
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> I even remember reading articles in the Memphis newspaper when I was in
> my 20's about hospitals x-raying candy and apples for things like razor
> blades and needles.
>
> Apparently no one has actually done this, except for one guy trying to
> collect life insurance he'd taken out on his son to pay off debts. In
> order to get the payout he had to poison a few other kids in the
> process. He didn't get away with it.

Yeah, they are all lies and bunk. Spreading fear and loathing is a way
of life for some, particularly as part of an all-consuming world view
shared by Christianists and "conservatives". Fear is a goal.

Halloween is my birthday and the "war on Halloween" by Christianists is
a real one in the same way that the "war on Christmas" was enver one.