• actually@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I read that too a while back, and i believed it for years. Now, I’m just not sure.

    I’m not saying it happens a lot… but

    Outside the fact it’s just hard to tamper most commercially packaged candy. There seems to a taboo about poison in this county. People will be glad to shoot me but god forbid they touch mah diabetes causing candy.

    But social taboo works both ways, and it alters the self reporting. I remember a few times I have seen local authorities not wanting to call adult poisoning that. Then later it was

    And, despite the movies, poison food usually does not kill. Often altered food merely gives discomfort that hard to tell from food borne illness.

    So, although trick or treating is probably one of the safest activities one can do here, and doubtless many want to think it completely safe. It’s probably safer than riding on the freeway

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      25 days ago

      102 people died daily in 2016 in motor vehicle accidents.

      Local authorities waiting for a full tox panel before announcing cause of death, or reversing, or dithering, is no cause for alarm

      Consumer protection laws are No Joke.

      We’re pretty safe on Halloween, all things considered.