Pipkin
in honor of the 'but what should I do for Halloween with my kids with aaaall this fentanyl on the streets???' posts starting: 
Pipkin
(not here, luckily, but FB and Nextdoor already and fucksakes people)
Pipkin
and on Nextdoor the number of people replying 'go to church and stop participating in a pagan ritual' is uhhh lot higher than last year, so I'm glad I'm getting out of this neighborhood
StupidSexyV⚠der
yep
Stab or swallow
That shit's expensive, nobody's going to waste it on kids
Pipkin
also there's uhh no fentanyl on the streets here like damn
Pipkin
y'all won't even let a LEGAL DISPENSARY within city limits
Pipkin
anyway yeah, nobody's actually giving kids free drugs
🍉 catipede
i like how "pagan" lately just means anything that isn't christian or catholic when it was THEM who invented halloween
🍉 catipede
it doesn't even exist where I live and yet.
Haunted Boobs
Also the first uses of the term 'pagan'....were from Romans referring to Christians. Christians were the original heathens/pagans.
Pipkin
dingding!
Pipkin
being fair: there were a lot of good suggestions in the threads too, couple places are doing a 'trunk or treat' thing, and as far as know Midtown Shops are still doing a trick or treat walk
Pipkin
but yeah, there used to be mostly good suggestions and a couple naysayers of the holiday and this year it's 60/40 give or take
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
When did we switch from checking candy for razor blades to checking it for drugs anyhow? What period of time ever was there that people were drugging the candy they gave away? What's the point? They'll eat it later and you wont be there. The drugged candies were for the sickos who handed them candy, had them EAT IT THERE, then made off with the kids.
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
no one is offering druygs to kids and sending them home for shits and giggles
Pipkin
I know when I was a kid we were warned about LSD being in temporary tattoos, but IDK when it switched to being in candy
Pipkin
(temp tattoos were new when I was a kid, so, like...)
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
also the 'drugs' tend to be laxatives and arsenic, not speed and weed...
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
oh and cyanide
Pipkin
also in apples, or so I was always warned
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
yeah looks like in 68, in tronto there was a case, or warning about blades in apples. but also that's really easy to see because the moment you shove a blade into an apple it's going to brown lol
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
it IS interesting how few cases of chemical tainting over the decades has gone from 'cyanide in candies given out from a loon" turned into "Check your kids candies for Sneaky Weed candies 
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!
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
like anyone is giving away their THC, thanks
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
like yeah. ALWAYS look for tampered candies. but also, is anyone really handing out their fun drugs?
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
and if so point me to their house, i got a costume...
Pipkin
yeah and wasn't that one case just one guy trying to get back at his ex wife or something to that effect?
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
something like that!
Haunted Boobs
yeah the few actual instances of stuff like kids being given drug candy or whatever....very specific, targeted cases.
StupidSexyV⚠der
the man who killed Halloween
StupidSexyV⚠der
he actually poisoned candies - to kill his kids
Pipkin
StupidSexyV⚠der
: ah thank you, I knew someone would have it
Pipkin
Haunted Boobs
: EXACTLY!
StupidSexyV⚠der
pleased to serve!
Hooded Figure
I hate this kind of conspiracy theory so much
Hooded Figure
it's so impossible to dislodge because the people who spread it want to believe that the world is full of people who actively want to harm their children and they're engaged in this mental arms race against it
Hooded Figure
it's exhausting
Pipkin
exactly!
Pipkin
like shit I don't even have kids, but I do like handing out treats, and the dwindling numbers makes me sad
•ꜰʀɪᴋᴋᴇɴ ʙᴀᴛꜱ•
I can’t even afford drugs for me, let alone to give out free to some 5 year old
•ꜰʀɪᴋᴋᴇɴ ʙᴀᴛꜱ•
I mean, I don’t want any drugs but the point stands
Pipkin
and it's a good point! Because yeah same (I mean I do want some if only bc the CBD would help my back and my anxiety)
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
on the dead end street i lived on, 5 stops were literally the fav of everyone because one woman made popcorn balls, one made candy apples, one guy would stuff unwrapped candies in those plastic kitchen gloves? and two others always baked the best cookies or rice crispy treats!
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
but then there was the year where they would only give them to kids they knew who's parents were with them to OK it. then it was 'stop by after halloween if you want some' then not at all. . and i was always too shy to go ask the day after LOL
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
though gran was friends with the one woman so we'd get cookies after anyhow.
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
but it's interesting to see how the change of trick or treating has changed over the years
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
i used to LOVE getting apples. and one house used to give pomegranates because they had too many
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
now a days you tell someone you remember the good old days of getting real candy apples, and someone will tell you you were blessed not to have been poisoned : O!!
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
and i always want to ask "how many people do you know have been poisoned by candy apple???"
Pipkin
YEAH!
Pipkin
'oh well it happened to the cousin of a kid from the daycare I think' THAT DOESN'T COUNT
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
sorry karen, it doesn't count, you don't know them.
ɗυ boiѕ°
in an abstract sense, I can understand the worry because there is one case of a man poisoning his kid that someone already brought up, but in his case the candy had been obviously tampered with
ɗυ boiѕ°
your neighbor dorothy down the street is just passing out cookies because she loves baking
Pipkin
my folks always gave out raisins (lame) or stickers, which I thought was lame but last year I had lil sandwich baggies with a popcorn snack pack and a couple stickers and all the kids went WILD
Pipkin
(or the year before now, I think, I don't even remember)
ɗυ boiѕ°
we don't get trick-or-treaters anymore really, but if we did I'd probably give out my modified tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe which involves replacing the nuts with m&ms
ɗυ boiѕ°
I'd even make them gluten free!
ɗυ boiѕ°
I think the handmade treats are more special than buying those big assortment bags
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
dude i loved getting raisins ;-; ... i'd toss them in my oatmeal LOL
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
i havent had trick r treaters for ye ars, then last year i had kids knock and i was trying so hard not to cry because we had that fire and i hadn't had kids in years so i didnt buy candy. and i was like i am so sorry guys.
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
but they were like its okay we just wanted to run around in costumes.
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
but then i remembered i had welches fruit snack packs so i gave them some of those LOL
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
so this year i have Starburst Suckers at the ready /flex
⋆｡° hob °｡⋆
mostly because i wanted them but i will never make it through a bag, so i should have lots for like three kids
Pipkin
LOL yeah, when we get any they're usually super polite, which is always nice to see
Pipkin
one of the kids was so excited about the popcorn tho: "GUYS POPCORN! POPCORN GUYS LOOK!" Had to go running down to the sidewalk to the rest of their group
ɗυ boiѕ°
oh that's so cute
spicy mycophile
maybe just start fucking with people by handing out fentanyl test strips and pamphlets on how to administer narcan
Pipkin
oh, that's something else that these people are upset by, the fact that narcan is (is going to be?) available over the counter
Pipkin
because just as a legal dispensary is '''danger to our children''' because it's '''a gateway drug''', easily available narcan is '''pandering to addicts'''
spicy mycophile
in other words, they don't give a shit about the fact that addicts are human beings too and they want them to just fucking die already
Pipkin
dingdingding
🍉 catipede
spicy mycophile
: ding ding ding ding
StupidSexyV⚠der
YEEEEEEEP