This is old, but whatever. First off, I had 3 older siblings who seemed to get the halloween costumes, and I got the shit they'd worn years before-- usually from my brother, since not even my parents would deign to put me in one of the fairy/princess/ballerina outfits my sisters prefered. I was already bored with the costumes, as I'd have seen them before, so I'd mix them up, resulting in deeply unsatisfying combinations, such as a vampire clown or a demon penguin. "What in the hell are you supposed to be?," asked all of my neighbors.
More importantly, I like to clear up the 'razor blade in the apple thing', here's our old friend Snopes to inform you that yeah, that didn't so much happen: "In one case a boy came to his parents with an apple containing a razor blade. He had bit into an apple, he said, but not quite deeply enough to contact the blade. In another, the child said he found the blade while cutting out a rotten spot; in a third case, the razor was found when a child turned an apple over to his father for peeling. In all these detailed cases, the child was not injured, and because he was the immediate source of the apple, it seems possible that he was also the source of the blade. As Best and Horiuchi (authors of the Razor Blade) note, more than 75 percent of reported cases involved no injury, and detailed followups in 1972 and 1982 concluded that virtually all the reports were hoaxes concocted by the children or parents."
However, there HAVE been pins and needles inserted into candy bars. What kind of sick fuck does it? Here's Snopes again:
"it was almost always some kid intent on freaking out either his little brother or his parents or getting the community in an uproar as his version of a cute Halloween "trick"."
Apparently, there have been 80 cases of that since 1950, and only 10 of them resulted in any injury at all, in the worst case where a woman required some stitches. There were some sick fucks out there, but it's not as bad as all that. Full article here: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp
"What in the hell are you supposed to be?," asked all of my neighbors.
More importantly, I like to clear up the 'razor blade in the apple thing', here's our old friend Snopes to inform you that yeah, that didn't so much happen:
"In one case a boy came to his parents with an apple containing a razor blade. He had bit into an apple, he said, but not quite deeply enough to contact the blade. In another, the child said he found the blade while cutting out a rotten spot; in a third case, the razor was found when a child turned an apple over to his father for peeling. In all these detailed cases, the child was not injured, and because he was the immediate source of the apple, it seems possible that he was also the source of the blade. As Best and Horiuchi (authors of the Razor Blade) note, more than 75 percent of reported cases involved no injury, and detailed followups in 1972 and 1982 concluded that virtually all the reports were hoaxes concocted by the children or parents."
However, there HAVE been pins and needles inserted into candy bars. What kind of sick fuck does it? Here's Snopes again:
"it was almost always some kid intent on freaking out either his little brother or his parents or getting the community in an uproar as his version of a cute Halloween "trick"."
Apparently, there have been 80 cases of that since 1950, and only 10 of them resulted in any injury at all, in the worst case where a woman required some stitches. There were some sick fucks out there, but it's not as bad as all that.
Full article here: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp
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