Did You Check Your Children's Candy After Trick or Treating?

[AutumnMist]

Just curious if anyone had it x rayed. I didn't have our daughters candy checked in that manner but we went through it when we got home. For security reasons completly...it had nothing to do with the fact that mom likes Reese's peanut butter cups..really. :hi:

[Blue-Jay]

1. x-rayed?!?

Who has an x-ray machine just laying around?

[AutumnMist]

4. LOL. No.

Local hospitals in many areas will x ray the candy to check for needles, foreign objects, etc. I have friends that do it every Halloween. Strange huh?

[kay1864]

2. X-rayed? No.

YAUL (Yet Another Urban Legend)

[AutumnMist]

5. Really?

We have hospitals that will x-ray candy...seems overkill to me. But then again to each his own. :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. Major overkill. I too think it is an urban legend.

I'm not sure there has ever been a substantiated case of true tampering. The few verifiable stories I have seen have all turned out to be the family doing it for either publicity or lawsuits.

[kay1864]

8. Well yeah, of course they will

Because there's throngs of parents who grew up hearing those same stories.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Nope, but I confiscated the Almond Joys.

Can never be too careful with coconut you know.

[AutumnMist]

6. Same With Peanut Butter and Chocolate

ya never know...I had to eat the Reeses just to be sure.

[Downtown Hound]

9. X-ray? LOL!

They probably irradiated their candy and made it even more dangerous. All you have to do is check the wrapping on the candy. If it's been punctured in any way, bye-bye. Any candy that is not covered, which is very rare and usually the result of those health nuts that hand out apples, bye-bye. That was always our policy when we were growing up. Never once had to throw out any candy that already had a wrapper on it. The apples? They would have been thrown out anyway. :evilgrin:

[reyd reid reed]

10. I always dump it and check it very carefully

for Reese's, 3-Musketeers and whatever else I can talk them out of.

And if I find one with a wrapper that's already opened or something that's homemade, those have to go. X-rayed, though? Nah. If I started to do that, the kids would just eat as much of it as they could before they got home and then I wouldn't get my Reese's and 3-Musketeers.

:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Check, no. Eat, yes.