zxcvbob wrote:

> 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?


That may have played into it, but the Tylenol thing happened here in Chicago
in the fall of 1982 (at the Walgreen's drugstore in Old Town, intersection
of North and Wells). Things got kinda hinky after that for trick or
treating and also people were basically scared to buy stuff in drugstores...

--
Best
Greg