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One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 12:12PM |
There was a thread last evening about Trick or Treaters and candy and stuff, and I posted that I was going to have to take my chances and see how honest the kids in my neighborhood are. I left out a basket of candy with a note to take some but to also please leave something for the next ghouls to come by. Well...
As far as Louie and I could tell, there was only one group - or at least only one group that we heard. When the basket was put out last evening, it had about half Almond Joy fun size bars and half small Reese's peanut butter cups. When my friend brought in the basket this morning, she started laughing and said "We didn't put out any Snickers bars!" Someone had made an even swap between Snickers fun size and all but two of the Reeses.
I sure do like where I live.
As far as Louie and I could tell, there was only one group - or at least only one group that we heard. When the basket was put out last evening, it had about half Almond Joy fun size bars and half small Reese's peanut butter cups. When my friend brought in the basket this morning, she started laughing and said "We didn't put out any Snickers bars!" Someone had made an even swap between Snickers fun size and all but two of the Reeses.
I sure do like where I live.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 12:23PM |
3d;
To my knowledge (according to some articles a few years ago..) there has never really been a SINGLE documented case of "tampered with" candy, razor blades in apples, etc, in the U.S. in at least 40 years. Not one.
Not saying that some prudence isn't in order, but it's interesting how stark raving paranoid we have gotten about halloween candy, when the other 364 days of the year, there "no problem".
Paul F.
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To my knowledge (according to some articles a few years ago..) there has never really been a SINGLE documented case of "tampered with" candy, razor blades in apples, etc, in the U.S. in at least 40 years. Not one.
Not saying that some prudence isn't in order, but it's interesting how stark raving paranoid we have gotten about halloween candy, when the other 364 days of the year, there "no problem".
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 12:42PM |
3d;
And yet, we use public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, the list goes on and on and on... without a second thought.
Did the person who last opened that door have hepatitis? Ebola? The Flu? You don't know... it would be insane to touch that doorknob!
Selective paranoia...
Use a little hand sanitizer, and lighten up.
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
And yet, we use public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, the list goes on and on and on... without a second thought.
Did the person who last opened that door have hepatitis? Ebola? The Flu? You don't know... it would be insane to touch that doorknob!
Selective paranoia...
Use a little hand sanitizer, and lighten up.
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 12:46PM |
Apha-
A lovely story, and good for your neighborhood. I'm amazed the squirrels didn't come and clean up the snickers bars... if I had left a bowl of candy out all night the deer and squirrels would have cleaned it all up for me. I hope Louie did OK with the spookies. I sat outside handing out candy in the cold and wind so our Chihuahuas would not have to bark themselves crazy.
We had a neighbor comment that she was running out of candy last year... and two teenage boys said "here" and dumped some of their bags into her candy bowl. (Yes, may have had to do with the fact that this attractive single Mom was wearing a rather low cut kitty cat outfit, or that she's a teacher in the high school. Or both !
A lovely story, and good for your neighborhood. I'm amazed the squirrels didn't come and clean up the snickers bars... if I had left a bowl of candy out all night the deer and squirrels would have cleaned it all up for me. I hope Louie did OK with the spookies. I sat outside handing out candy in the cold and wind so our Chihuahuas would not have to bark themselves crazy.
We had a neighbor comment that she was running out of candy last year... and two teenage boys said "here" and dumped some of their bags into her candy bowl. (Yes, may have had to do with the fact that this attractive single Mom was wearing a rather low cut kitty cat outfit, or that she's a teacher in the high school. Or both !
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 12:53PM |
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Paul F.
3d;
And yet, we use public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, the list goes on and on and on... without a second thought.
Did the person who last opened that door have hepatitis? Ebola? The Flu? You don't know... it would be insane to touch that doorknob!
Selective paranoia...
Use a little hand sanitizer, and lighten up.
No one is INGESTING "public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, etc." Do you make it a habit to use a store pen to sign a credit card receipt and then procede to chew on the cap? That's disgusting. Lighten up!
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 01:12PM |
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cbelt3
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Yes, may have had to do with the fact that this attractive single Mom was wearing a rather low cut kitty cat outfit, or that she's a teacher in the high school. Or both !
Attractive, low cut outfit, teacher, teenagers. This can't be good.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/01/2010 01:12PM by space-time.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 01:27PM |
space-time;
What, you don't LIKE teenage girls in Bikini's? There are whole INDUSTRIES built upon teenage girls in Bikini's!
OK... not wanting to see the chubby part I get... never mind.
I don't recall the OP saying that the candy bars were unwrapped...
Do you eat the wrapper too? You're ingesting the wrapper?
Now we're back to the odds of the candy being tampered with, INSIDE The wrapper, unless you lick the wrapper as you unwrap it.
A little prudence? Sure... always wise.
Still not seeing any reason for AlphaDog not to snack on snickers.. and share with Louie, of course!
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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What, you don't LIKE teenage girls in Bikini's? There are whole INDUSTRIES built upon teenage girls in Bikini's!
OK... not wanting to see the chubby part I get... never mind.
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No one is INGESTING "public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, etc." Do you make it a habit to use a store pen to sign a credit card receipt and then procede to chew on the cap? That's disgusting. Lighten up!
I don't recall the OP saying that the candy bars were unwrapped...
Do you eat the wrapper too? You're ingesting the wrapper?
Now we're back to the odds of the candy being tampered with, INSIDE The wrapper, unless you lick the wrapper as you unwrap it.
A little prudence? Sure... always wise.
Still not seeing any reason for AlphaDog not to snack on snickers.. and share with Louie, of course!
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 01:35PM |
oh my, poisoning dogs with chocolate, now you've done it Paul.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 01:44PM |
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i didn't see any trick or treaters this year but a friend told me there seem to be an abundance of teen girl @#$%& outfits this year.
Hmm.. I gotta get out more on Halloween, apparently...
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oh my, poisoning dogs with chocolate, now you've done it Paul.
OK.. so she should only share LITTLE pieces of snickers with Louie
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 02:15PM |
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billb
If no one ever gets caught , it never happened.
If it's on the internet, it must be true.
Yeah; that was an extremely in depth article. It'll prob'ly make the evening news tonight on all major networks.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 02:20PM |
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billb
If no one ever gets caught , it never happened.
If it's on the internet, it must be true.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 02:36PM |
I'll risk it, send them to me. When I get your left overs and the ones that Blooz had better be sending me, I won't have to go to Target for the half off stuff. 
Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 02:47PM |
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billb
oh my, poisoning dogs with chocolate, now you've done it Paul.
Years ago, our dog ate a Costco size box of Hershey Bars while we were out of the house, first clue was the dog wasn't interested in dinner that night. The dog survived, but was pooping foil wrappers for a few days.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 02:50PM |
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cbelt3
...the fact that this attractive single Mom was wearing a rather low cut kitty cat outfit, or that she's a teacher in the high school. Or both !
What, are we supposed to use our imagination?!!
SoCal for now.
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 04:42PM |
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3d
No one is INGESTING "public door knobs, writing surfaces, pens, grocery check out conveyor belts, keyboards, ATM's, etc." Do you make it a habit to use a store pen to sign a credit card receipt and then procede to chew on the cap? That's disgusting. Lighten up!
I don't recall the OP saying that the candy bars were unwrapped...
Do you eat the wrapper too? You're ingesting the wrapper?
Now we're back to the odds of the candy being tampered with, INSIDE The wrapper, unless you lick the wrapper as you unwrap it.
Yeah... and i don't recall mentioning anything about malicious death, poisoning, and razor blades in my original post but you felt the need to escalate my original post into a stark raving paranoia thread. I just said.. risking your health (not LIFE). It could be something as innocent as germs from a sick child. Why risk eating a piece of unknown wrapped candy? It's not like anyone here is starving. Do you not have tons of other things to eat in the house? You just must must MUST eat that particular Snickers bar? LOL
Ohyeah... lighten up. And you too KenSP!
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Oops. Fixed quote
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 01, 2010 06:35PM |
And I will submit that there's nothing worse about that piece of wrapped candy that isn't on things you touch day in and day out without a thought....
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
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Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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Eureka, CA
Paul F.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 5 BC - 65 AD
----
Good is the enemy of Excellent. Talent is not necessary for Excellence.
Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision.
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--
Eureka, CA
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 02, 2010 10:49AM |
All this was supposed to be was a funny story. 
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Re: One more Trick or Treat story! Date: November 02, 2010 01:08PM |
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Paul F.
It was!
SoCal for now.
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