Mpoconnor7 wrote:

> I live in an apartment and no kids come by. I can't remember the last time a
> kid came to my door on Halloween.
>
> I remember when I was a kid we used to go out for 3 hours, starting as soon as
> it started getting dark.
>
> It was 1982 when the practice of kids going to strangers houses for Halloween
> effectively ended. About a month before Halloween that year, the Tylenol
> poisoning occured, and there were other copycat incidents across the country
> and people died from tainted products. Halloween as we knew it was cancelled
> that year. At that point, the malls picked up the slack and started handing
> out candy to kids because parents were terrified to let their kids go to every
> house in the neighborhood to get candy. I'm sure parents will take their kids
> to houses where they know the people living there, but never to people they
> don't know.
>
> Michael O'Connor - Modern Renaissance Man
>
> "I actually thought about voting for John Kerry before I decided to vote
> against him."


1982? Are you sure that wasn't when that guy in Texas was executed for
killing his own son with a Giant Pixie Stick full of cyanide --
allegedly got when the kid was trick r treating?

Bob