"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.
>

When I as around 10 my neighborood was rocked with several cases of broken
glass in candy. They caught the guy. He was just a random maniac who
really hated kids.

So it does happen.


> Jill