From the time I was a boy, Halloween seem to have taken a big swing from the joy it once was. Now it seems that people try to structure Halloween into sanitized activities, or parties. More than a few people I hear say they were planning to go to parties or structured event over going street to street for tricks or treats because it was safer on top of them not wanting to do all that walking. When I was a kid you could get candy or treats, and treats you could never get these days for a million dollars, from nearly every house in the neighborhood. Then because of certain incidences people started getting scared of the candy and certainly any fruit (ironic when it is healthier than the candy). They figured at parties there is less chance to getting any candy that was messed with. Is it really safer? With all those activities going on unless they have a studious gear guard watching the snacks and such, someone could easily and quickly drop something in the punch, spray on the food, etc and make a lot of people very sick; and it would be hard pressed to detect who did it? If they had cameras how better would that be, even if you determined who did it? If it is an open party as many were around here, where the neighborhood was invited, if you seen Chubaka lace the punch it is of no use unless someone knew who was in the Wookie suit. If you got bad candy going house to house, you can figure which house you got it at if you play attention, not every house will be passing out the same type of candy. Sanitized parties for Halloween may seem save but if someone was really bent on ruining the fun, they could not be stopped any better, they may even be able to hide more effectively though.

Topics: parties, security, Halloween, candy, secure, danger, treats, Tampering, tricks or treats, false belief