"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> I've heard stories about this since I was a teenager.
>
> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...1020-Weekender
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/18r
>
> 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.

There have been some who did it themselves to attract attention. They put a
needle in a candy bar or apple then took it to the hospital to be X Rayed.
But they didn't hand that stuff out to anyone.

As children, we lived in fear of these things. We were never allowed to eat
apples that we were given because even if we cut them up to check for stuff,
we still couldn't be sure of poison. And one year there was some rumor
going around that something was put in the Clark bars. I can't remember
what it was. It wasn't true but I never ate a Clark bar because of it. My
dad would believe these things and made sure that we kids were equally
terrified.