Is the Razorblades In Apples Halloween Story Actually Real?
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2022
- Weird History Food is dispelling the Halloween myths of tainted candy! We've all heard the stories of somebody lacing delicious Halloween candy with poison, or the classic razorblade in an apple story, but is any of that true? Like any part of it? Join us as we explore the history of Halloween candy myths.
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My mom has admitted to me outright that, as far as she was concerned, the whole "poisoned candy check" was just an excuse to steal some of our treats. Dad at least would just take it right in front of us and claim the infamous "dad tax".
We knew the children of someone who had been arrested for putting needles in candy apples and who was doing time, so we knew it was not just our parents trying to swipe our candy. Plus Mom bought a bag each of our 2 favorites that she said was in case more trick or treaters than usual showed up, but they would end up in our snack jars.
Good ol' dad tax.
That's great! My sisters and I had the "mom tax", while my dad always asked us to share some with him. 😆
@@petenielsen6683 wanna share some proof on that?
@@johnr797 The ol' "friend of a friend".
Remember, drugs are expensive. They won't be giving them out to kids. Let alone in their candy.
I saw that meme on Zeducation.
True Dat.
Yeah, and no weed dealer is going to risk his license and freedom by illegally giving out drugs to children.
Like even if someone did try to lace candy with drugs as some sort of malicious act, it would be the most easily trackable crime ever, because the victims will likely know either what you look like, or where you live!
It's insane that people let this stupid, easily debunked urban legend spread this long.
Smoke em if u got em
Share it with the kids lol
They didn't put in on this, man!
I do food reviews while I’m high on my YouTubę chånnel ‼️
With the price of razor blade replacement heads nowadays.. I'd kinda appreciate a few free ones.
Single use razor blades are super cheap. You can buy 100 for 3$
Man... you got to get into double edge razor shaving. 100 blades for from $7 to $20 CAD.
My 1918 Gillette uses modern blades and still hands out great shaves 100+ years after it was made.
Unless you bite into one and slice open the roof of your mouth.
We knew all our neighbors, loved the popcorn balls and candy apples. What killed Halloween was all the freeloaders an parasites dumping truckloads of ENTITLED BRATS into neighborhoods they DIDN'T live in. Dead giveaway was an extremely tall teenage kid walking up and in a deep and heavy spanish accent say trick or treat. My Dad would yell out Mom call Border Patrol and we'd watch them scatter. Good old days when they'd actually arrest and deport Illegal Aliens.
I use a safety razor, less expensive and better for the environment.
I asked my dad about this when I got older and he told me "no, I just wanted to take all your almond joys." 😂
Well, your dad sounds like a smart guy because those are awesome.
Good for him. Almond Joy sucks.
Good times!!🤣🤣🤣
He was doing you a favor, clearly
I never liked Peanut Butter, but my parent's did so at least they didn't have to take my favorite candies.
I remember one year as a kid, late 70’s/early 80’s, one year our little town’s hospital put out that they would x-ray any kids candy if they came in. So we did, waited in line, and the only suspicious thing that popped up was the metal from a twist tie around a baggie of candy.
In the mid '70s my mother took us kids to the hospital to have our Holloween candy x-rayed. The hospital offered it as a free service to ensure the safety of kids. We walked in and the line was super long...so we went home.
Mmmmmm....irradiated candy. Yum.
This literally made me laugh out loud!
@Adam M That’s not how radiowaves work you twit.
x-rays are unnecessary. These days you can just take it to the TSA! I'm sure they'll be happy to help, they're always so kind and useful
mm terrorist media fueled radiation candy.. Media heads are sick and should be jailed for conspiracy and terrorism.
Even IF there were drugs in candy "to get kids hooked", how exactly would a 6 year old know to buy that drug, let alone find a dealer? Parental panic is it's own kind of drug. Edit: There's a lot of parents in the replies...
Drug dealers wouldn't give out their products for free.
Also drugs are expensive yo
The only way I could ever see any drug user handing out drugs with Halloween candy would be if they accidentally spilled some of their drug of choice into the candy and didn't even realize it. It wouldn't happen intentionally!
@@shehuweaves Drug dealers give free drugs all the time. What the new user doesn't realize though, is that for the dealer it isn't a gift--it's an investment.
Yeah I wish republicans would stop the fentanyl in Halloween Candy scare. It’s getting pretty sick. A lot of parents are now scared to do trick or treating and Fox is walking back everything they’ve been saying for months, pretending they have no idea why parents are scared
Isn't it great that we live in a society where we have to remind people that shit like this doesn't happen because only an unhinged psychopath would poison children?
It is even better that the fear of it has convinced generations of people that it happens all the time.
Good ol' America, where the average person's level of goodwill and kindness is such that everyone in the country has this much paranoia from a holiday meant to show generosity.
Doesn’t help we live in a society where the media on both sides constantly paint their opponents as unhinged psychopaths. The Left says all Republicans are dangerous gun-wielding fascist looking to take away everyone’s rights while the Right says all Democrats are “grooming” your kids to be obsessed with sex, drugs, and violence. It’s no surprise nobody trusts their neighbor anymore
Yeah it’s sad. The vast VAST majority of people in the country are amazing. Literally 99%
We're very afraid. Probably because we're constantly terrorized by those looking to make a quick buck off of selling almost true scary stories to people
These stories will always be stupid and absurd to me.
Like calm down Mom, little Granny Homemaker down the street isn't going to lace your kids' tootsie rolls with sewing needles and no weed dealer is going to give you his expensive gummies for free.
And also, there has NEVER been a recorded instance of a child being killed as a result of a stranger giving them poisoned Halloween candy.
My neighbours across the street were wonderful. They gave out full size chocolate bars. In the 80s this was amazing! And they ALSO gave cookies we munched going house to house. But only to the kids who lived on the street they knew. And since we lived across the street, and our parents were friends, they gave my Mum any leftover cookies when they finished for the night....but I think she made an extra dozen for my brother and I. The next day we'd go say thank you. Best old couple EVER 🎃👻
Our neighbors down the street did the same thing but only for kids they recognized. And not just on Halloween either. They were a sad couple who could not have children of their own and whose siblings children lived in another state. So if our schools had events honoring senior citizens or our teachers wanted us to invite our grandparents but they lived several states away they would act as substitutes for our real relatives.
That's such a sweet and wholesome memory!
@@petenielsen6683 That's awesome. Yeah, their kids were often a no-show too, and we never saw any grandkids. The sweet old guy pased when I was in my 30s, then his wife stayed til she went 5 years later. Everyone loved them. I was teaching university then....so I didn't know until 6 months later. The house stayed empty because their selfish sons fought over the estate for over 15 years....sad.
@@flowertrue now my guy and I are the nice middle aged couple who give wicked loot bags every halloween....with full sized chocolate bars. Lol
My mother's "inspection" of my candy bag consisted of her stealing the Reeses! XD
We tell my daughter it's the parent tax 🤣
My mother (now 61) still warns me to keep an eye out on all my daughters candy, every year. Even though I take my daughter in my mothers neighborhood, where she knows everyone.
My mom definitely inspected all our candy. I have to give a shout out to the house that gave out full-size Snicker's bars. You're legendary!
Oh I remember those houses. I would go back again that same night.
@@dankuneasewaybill333 🐷🐷🐷
@@ahotdj07 This is the reason my friend's old brother became notorious for putting stones in the kids' bags. He only did it if he recognized the voice of someone who went back. Eventually he got caught by their father when his parents were no longer going square dancing on Halloween and stopped doing it. Mr Sweitzer spent more money on Halloween from then on, but I only had another year of being young enough for trick or treating at that point.
When I realized we only got a few trick or treaters at my old place, I started giving out full size candy bars, and the parents were more excited about it than the kids!
Yup, I check my kids Halloween candy & I also swipe some candy for myself. It's parent tax. I had to walk around with these kids... I earned that fun sized Snickers 😂.
When I was a kid, I found an entire table saw in my Milky Way.
Worse, when I was a kid we found a fully crewed and operational Russian nuclear ballistic missile submarine in a starburst candy. It was a fruit punch flavored one. .....the starburst not the sub, it was an Akula class.
did it at least have a blade guard?
@@BreadApologist so you at least checked the flavor of the sub. Good on ya.
I found a leaf blower in my Snikers
@@BreadApologist what's the resale on that? Or did you just start your own navy?
I recall a neighbour's kid getting a razor blade in an apple S a kid in the 70's. Could have been made up or changed to make sure I didn't eat any trick or treated apples. I was way ahead of them on that, getting an apple was an insult.
Ever get a rock?
As a father can in fact confirm. Only had kids because I was too old to go trick or treating
I wish I had thought of that, instead I just buy my own!
@@billh.1940 I buy mine on All Saints Day (also known as Scots American Halloween.) Now that Wegmans is no longer 24 /7 I plan to go first thing in the morning on Tuesday for the 50% off specials.
@@petenielsen6683 I usually buy candy and thing after holidays! Are Christmas decorations not good for next year? Foods and candy for now.
Terminally cheap i guess.
@@petenielsen6683 the unheralded glutton holiday!
my sister goes every year, same for the day after Easter and Christmas. we go the day before the holidays at our Market Basket, they dump their inventory on the cheap…I mean “celebrate early”(75-90% off at 3or 4 PM 🤣)
@@billh.1940 how many kids have you bought so far?
A+ video!
Nothing creates more fear than a person's imagination running wild.
I used to live in Columbia, Missouri, which is where "The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs" urban legend originated (happened long before I moved there).
The first scene of the first Scream film is based off of that.
Thank you for the video.
One of the best episodes weird history has ever done.
I had a teacher that found a needle in an apple going over how to look for stuff like that, but looking back I think she was the suspect.
Drugs are expensive. Don't say no to drugs kids. Say "perhaps?"
I grew up in a very wealthy neighborhood. Yes, my parents went through our candy and we were careful about which houses we went to, but that was not necessary. One particular house was owned by a man named Alexander Breast, a man who rode around in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce. This man did not give out candy. No. He gave out Cross pens and pencils, which were extremely expensive back then. When my father saw that he had given me a sterling silver cross pen, he told me to go back and get whatever else I could. Lol.
It’s insane to think that someone would give out something so valuable to trick-or-treaters in this day and age. But that was in the late 70s.
My grandmother made homemade donuts for the trick or treaters for decades. Everyone in town knew and so many loved them. Then almost overnight in mid 80s I remember noticing that there were a ton of donuts left by the time my parents drove me to their home. The neighborhood kids were stopping by with their parents and picking up candy but no one took the donuts. This was a small neighborhood, roughly 20 houses and everyone knew everyone. Parents and grandparents all grew up together. This wasn't an area where new families were moving in all the time. These people borrowed lawn equipment and would chat for an hour or more on their porches when one walked by. Yet everyone was avoiding the donuts. They still tasted amazing (I ate a bunch, happily making up for the idiots who didn't take one). My father asked his mother what was up and my grandfather, a man who adored Halloween, bitterly sputtered, "goddamn news has everyone too scared to eat anything that isn't wrapped." Strangely enough grandpa died ON Halloween a few years later. Apparently he had had enough of the neighbors BS. Nowadays all of kids moved away and new families live there. From what I understand (from the one friend whose family still lives there) no one talks to one another anymore and most of the parents have stopped trick or treating at home and instead run off to the local trunk or treat events held by the fire department. Apparently even talking to the neighbor is too scary now. I miss my grandpa, but I'm glad he didn't live to see this horseshit.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this year, it’s that I’m not passing out Smarties to kids because I don’t need that one lunatic parent of accusing me of “hiding fentanyl in their Candy”
Where I lived as a child, razor blades were put into candy.
Edibles are on the expensive side, people won't give that away.
As a kid I perpetuated the "razorblades in the apples" myth. I didn't want the apples...I wanted the candy!! 😆
An Old Lady wearing a witch hat giving you an Apple on Halloween... What could go wrong?
I grew up in a small towns in the 1960's. We didn't even hear about poisoning until we were too old to trick or treat.
"Fuck! Damnit! Another Halloween
People on Military know what this means
Houses on fire, they're blowin up cars
Creatures in the streets, and razor blades and candy bars"
ICP
😄🎃🍫🍭🍬 I remember always instantly throwing away all the "healthier treats" like fruit, popcorn balls, or rice crispy treats. Not because of the horror tales, just because I was a candy snob and only wanted the good stuff like Snickers, Mr. Goodbar, Reese cups, etc. 😉😋☺
You threw away rice crispy treats!?!
I always hated getting Dots.
@@hetaliafan117 Yes I did. I still don't like them. 😊
@@B.H.56 should give them to me 😅
We want fun candy!
My sister's uncle's cousin saw a kid at a 31 flavors who totally had a razor blade in his 🍎 apple
Can confirm , I was the apple.
@@ROBOTPETER101 can confirm, i was the razor blade
When I was about 5 my mother and I found a piece of glass inside one of those Brach's jelly candies. I can still remember how shocked we both were, and how relieved that we checked the candy before eating any.
It wasn’t glass. The candy was exposed to humidity and the jelly inside the candy hardened into a clear glasslike shape. It still happens to this day.
I heard about apple razor blades when I was a kid in the late sixties and early seventies. It was usually one of those, "I heard" stories.
I trick-or-treated in the 80s and 90s, in rural Newfoundland, and not once did my parents inspect my candy.
They did eat some though lol
Same here in Nova Scotia but I was warned to be careful
It was the same for me in the midwestern US during the same era. At school, I did have to watch the "public safety" propaganda videos that taught the urban legend of tainted treats as fact, but my parents (and therefore I) were skeptical of such things, so I just brushed it off as boring people trying to make the holiday less fun.
@@MikeInHalifax yeah, I think I knew the myth, so I always looked at my treats before eating, but my parents didn't think anyone tainted or weaponize them lol
@@DamonNomad82 Nothing like fear mongering in the school curriculum. Jeeze. I'm glad you never took the message to heart.
Here's a thinker. That propaganda was aimed at adults in the 60's and 70's; but it's their children, the currently elders of society, who were most effected by it.
My mother (now 61) still warns me to keep an eye out on all my daughters candy, every year. Even though I take my daughter in my mothers neighborhood, where she knows everyone.
@@patrickaker4380 Maybe she knows something about one of them that people dont talk about...
My friend's dad snuck either razor blades or needles into candy apples to try to hurt him as a form of revenge on his mother when she got custody and hoped he would not get caught if other kids in the neighborhood got hurt too. It did not work. No one else got hurt except for the father himself ending up doing time.
ok but handing out a mild laxative to kids is fuckin hilarious, he didnt even tamper with anything he literally just handed them laxatives
I think you have an odd definition of the word 'hilarious'. But here, have some of these delicious gummy bears. I bought a few extra, make sure to eat the whole pound.
Right just a loose pill, not concealed or anything, most kids know what medicine looks like and wouldn't want it anyway
Young kids would 100% think it's candy and eat it.
@@XuroX. Well, if they are THAT young, they'll eat just about anything so....
Trust me, just ask the parent of any toddler lol
lil social commentary peppered either…love it
The Ronald Clark O'Bryan one was in my hometown (Deer Park, TX). Trick-or-treating was banned for years afterwards (my older sister remembers the ban being in place, but it had been lifted by the time of my earliest trick-or-treating memories).
For the kids in my neighbourhood in Toronto, we were told to be very careful about what the house of hippies up the street popped into our pillows and Halloween pumpkin-shaped carriers. Our parents were worried about us getting dosed with LSD or MDMA. To their disappointment, the hippies gave our well wrapped candies, DoubleBubble Gum and Halloween Kisses. The hippies told us to watch our for this new guy that just moved into the neighbourhood because he was always bitching about kids playing or music being too loud or just the fact that the hippies existed in a house they bought with their own "dough".
Fake news in 1959??? Who would do such a thing??😂😂
I was gonna say Orson Welles, but that's from 1938.
I remember all the hype on the media of candy being tainted and blades in apples. I remember our local hospital would run candy/foods through the x-ray machine at no charge.
That's why we buy temporary tattoos everytime we see them, just in case! Lol
I grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I got the propaganda about tainted treats from the media and public service videos shown at school (which were a mixture of the urban legends this video addresses and actual good safety tips like watching out for traffic), but my parents were skeptical of mass hysteria memes and were very laid back about the candy my sister and I got from trick-or-treating, as long as they got a share of it. They did, however, strictly limit how much of our candy we could eat per day, including the day of, so it usually lasted us until the next spring.
Even after he was caught O'Bryan still continued to deny his guilt.
I usually just check to make sure my kids' candy isn't unwrapped (you know, collecting fuzz or getting touched by a bunch of hands reaching into the bowl...). I'm somewhat lucky, though, in that my kids voluntarily give me a cut of their candy -- usually the things they know I like!
We had someone put needles in strawberries and sold in store. So not just things with no quality check can be "spiked" or tampered with
I'm from Fremont, CA, my parents have lived there since 1963, I trick or treated there for 19 years, and my parents never ONCE inspected my candy and now I'm quite concerned 😅
I caught my mom one year stealing a Clark candy bar thought it's funny because I don't like those ones. So we had a deal & she gets all Clark bars for inspecting my candy. She also had a habit of asking me for Snickers bars too. She's my mom. Of course I gave them to her if I had any left over.
I seem to remember a “casual criminalist“ episode about a man who gave out poison candy and even to his own kids on Halloween or something like that. It was a really messed up story.
When I was a kid my parents were glued to watching the news. The news would say how bad it was for kids to watch so much tv. I never found razor blades in candy.
An old lady wearing a witch hat giving you an Apple on Halloween... What could go wrong?
Fascinating! History, psychology, all that good stuff. There's enough truth and desire to protect the kids to make it believable, and hysteria grew. Then suspicion became part of the culture (take the candy to the police station for X-rays, safe places for the event, and so on). I think trick-or-treating should be done away with for several reasons, safety being near the top of the list. Great video and I'm glad to share it on social(ist) media.
I remember back in the 70s the great candy scare, parents always checked the candy and kept the good stuff for them self's
Very cool episode!
The only poisons, pills and razor blades I find in candy are the ones I put in myself 🎃🎃🎃
We had an old lady who handed out apples at Halloween so we visited her house to be nice but we never wanted the apples or ate them. I think most ended up thrown in the woods or in garbage bins.
A few years ago... like 2015 or something there was a fruit worker found to have put needles into strawberries which were then sent to grocery stores... Australians have only been doing halloween for a handful of years though.
🎃 🍫 A+ Vid, Weird History Food - I enjoyed the reminiscing of these fables & foibles of tainted candy. Nice plug at the end (13:21) showing The Holderness Family scene of the Mrs. stealing her kids’ candy. Really love those guys & your stuff too!! 🍫🎃
In 1992 when I was 8 I was given a mint flavoured condom by some weirdo 😂 I didn't know what it was until I got home, thankfully it wasn't a used one but it sure smelt nice 😋
Oh, that was me! Kidding.
Love this channel, whatever happened to hot n now and get em and go burger joints? Inquiring minds want to know.
The baked pennies makes no sense. You would have to use tongs to hand them out, or place them in a heat resistant vessel which would emanate heat, and let you know not to touch it. It just doesn't make sense
My kids always get some suspicious Reese cups. I always eat them to ensure their safety.
So statically you're more likely to be killed by candy your parents give you than candy you get from total strangers.
Both my parents worked in law enforcement so they were smart enough to know that no drug dealer/user would ever give away free drugs, so our candy was never inspected. And what do ya know, all my siblings and I are still alive and well.
I remember checking my candy as a kid and my dad telling me it was a waste of time. I used to think my dad just wanted me gone, cause of the garage door incident, but now I realize why my dad said that.
Correct, parents should check the candy. My cousin got a pear as a treat from creepy elderly neighbors in Upstate NY & when checking everything in his bag we discovered a needle in the fruit when my Aunt cut it opened! 😮Authorities we’re called.
Halloween II (1981) has a razor blade apple scene. I think that also spread the urban legend.
A few years back here (Australia) a woman was arrested for putting needles into strawberries at the supermarket. Then there were some copycats. Now we are careful to cut strawberries first, not bite into them whole.
A few years ago, when Wal-Mart started selling Christmas stuff before Halloween, I started buying their Silver Icing. I make candy Razor Blades for my Candy Apples.
Some parents aren't amused, others want their own apple. Or ask where they can buy the Razors.
A teacher in my hometown would put coins in apples. Everyone in town knew he did this. He wasn't trying to hurt anyone, he just wasn't that bright.
Damn razor blades in apples 🍎.
Random stuff I got for Halloween was
1) 5$
2) toothbrushe
3) apple
4) someone mix tape
5) a watch tower pamphlet
6) someone’s kids candy
7) a firework
8) nothing but I excuse
9) condomes
I’m convinced my parents inspected my food for some of the good stuff before giving us back a portion of our beggings.
Can confirm the "Parent Tax" exists. That's how I scored so many Snickers from my son when he was young. To be fair, I bought the costumes...😄
They did episodes on us pizza and barbecue and hot dogs, the next one they should do is burgers because there is a bunch of different Regional burgers
If you happen to see a 6 year old in a John Cena costume, don't just assume it's a 6 year old. It might be the real John Cena. He's tiny.
Yes it’s good to check the candy! When I was a kid several times my parents found candy that appeared tampered with. Some had unsealed packaging some maybe were homemade. She threw those out.
It might have been poisoned say but definitely not safe to eat.
Never been trick or treating, but I still resonate with this forbsome reason haha my question would be, even if some had been spiked or tampered with, how would they know/find out? Especially in the case of the example at the start, separating out named stuff as safe by default. What a ruse.
So parents are scared their kids will get dangerous candy from strangers, but totally fine for their kids to go round to strangers and ask for candy? Isn't there a much easier solution to this..
Yes. Many non-profits such as churches and synagogues hold events to hand out treats to the kids in their parking lots. And some parents are concerned enough about their kids getting hit by a car that they hold community parties inviting all the neighborhood kids and their parents hoping they also will not go door to door begging.
Now we got this 'Trunkoween" thing: People handing out candy from the trunk of their cars. That's like training your kids to climb into a pedophile's van.
I don't recall my parents ever inspecting my Halloween candy. If they wanted to take any they just did it while I was at school the next day.
Anyone with a hypodermic needle could tamper with "wrapped" candy and no one would be the wiser.
I am very happy to have found this video. I was planning to hand out rocks this Halloween, and now I am not going to.
I can 100% attest that LSD temporary tattoos were indeed a real thing. (Back in the 90s anyway. I don't know about now though.) The temporary tattoo method was just a way to be able to hide them from parents and/or authorities, who at that point had wisened up to what to a blotter sheet and the packaged individual hits looked like. The "widespread distribution to get kids hooked" story was absolute bupkis and there's never been a reported case of a child mistakenly using one, but they did exist. So like some of these urban myths, there IS a kernel of truth buried in there... much like a razor blade in an apple.
And speaking of which, I'd like to send a thank you, Weird History, for NOT including the clip or even a frame of the kid from Halloween II with the razor blade stuck in his mouth (presumably from a Halloween Sadist's apple that he bit into offscreen). And even if you were planning on it and only omitted it because of demonitization, I still appreciate it. It makes me wince just thinking about it!
When I was a kid I had a mini Reese cup and there was a little razor blade inside of it
Back in the 80's my cousin found some broken glass inserted into a snickers bar. Thankfully she caught that. I don't care how much the media or people may wanna give you a sense of comfort, taking candy from strangers will always be real risky, especially in the world we live in today.
Wich is why I don't get that whole "Trunkoween" thing: People handing out candy from the trunk of their cars. That's like training your kids to climb into a pedophile's van.
Of course a dentist did it. The inspection parents do is to see what the parents are going to pilfer.
Oh, that 1970s scare was hitting home when my teachers warned us in school! I got freaked out when this kindly elderly couple around the corner were handing out Tootsie Pops and the one the Mrs picked up for me she noticed that the wrapper came off so she put it back on!! Eek! Haha! I warned my parents about it but they told me not to worry!
My mother definitely was afraid of the razor blades in the apples story, so she told me, if I ever got an apple while trick or treating, just throw it away. I remember I did that just once, tossed it into the lady’s bushes.
Never did I think that my hometown would be mentioned on Weird History (Food). Given the subject matter, I’m not quite sure how I feel about it yet, but still interesting nonetheless.
Can’t imagine how one would shove a razor blade into an apple without injuring themselves.
and how would it not have a cut in it that nobody would notice?
Someone should invent Halloween electronic tokens that can later be redeemed
In the original Halloween II a little boy is admitted into the Haddonfield hospital with a razor blade firmly lodged between his teeth. Potentially the only case of such a thing actually happening
Growing up in the late 80s and early 90s in the projects in the Bronx none of these were urban legends ppl definitely put razor blades in candy
Nice use of the whole tone scale at 8:15.
William V. Shyne: It's just a prank, bro.
No gonna lie, being 8 and going on a lsd trip while everyone was wearing costumes would be kinda awesome!
I'm, 43 and that still sounds awesome!
He may have thought all that candy would constipate them.
I once ate a family sized bag of winegums untill only the white and green ones remained, and the day after I'd have been very, very glad to have some laxatives.
Even is US territories like Puerto Rico stories of tampered candy or razor blade apples were and still are common as Halloween "warnings" and just as in the US everyone knows of a friend or a friend of a friend that lost half their tongue due to not inspecting their Halloween loot. It amazes me how urban legends can travel and change to cultural biases like the ones mentioned or kidnappers dressing up as clowns snatching children that are in the street after bedtime.
@@dankuneasewaybill333 In the case of my friend's dad sneaking needles into candy apples no one got hurt. But he did end up in jail and did not get his son back as he had hoped.
This would be the dumbest scheme to injure a child because you would most likely be caught.
From what I understand the reason my friend's dad stuck razor blades into candy apples was he was trying to get revenge on his mother after a very messy divorce. It did not work because the kids were not injured and the dad ended up in prison.
Before I even watch the only legit halloween poisoned candy was by a dad who killed his son for insurance money. And now to watch
I gave out durian candy one year. But only to the older kids who were probably too old to be trick-or-treating. I personally like them. If you don't, oh well LOL!