Happy Halloween!

Hello to all of you parents who are reading this. I want to try to put your minds at ease before you go rummaging through your children's candy or even worse bothering to have it x-rayed. There is only 1 reliable, traceable Halloween candy death in the country and it wasn't from a stranger. "Timothy O'Bryan of Houston, Texas actually did die in 1974 after eating a Pixie Stick laced with cyanide on Halloween night. Which is true, but the kicker is that investigators determined that the candy was poisoned by O'Bryan's own father, who, unbelievable as it seems, hoped to collect on a life insurance policy he had taken out on his son." This is according to Newsweek. (and yes I double checked it with snopes just to be sure)
Now when people are confronted with a news article confronting the whole Halloween candy hoax they post things like this. "When I was a child in the late 60's and early 70's there were many instances in my home town of Battle Creek, Michigan, where strangers had embedded needles, razor blades and broken glass in fruit that was given away on Halloween. There were even more cases of people injecting soft candies with LSD, Heroin and Hash Hish. Kids I knew personally were victims of this insanity. That is when hospitals in Michigan began offering to x-ray Halloween candy" (just to let you all know, I do not correct the spelling of the people I quote, I want you to see them in their full and brilliant glory) I like this post, it tries to be credible with a place and approximate time, and it goes the extra step of adding drugs into the candy. However all they mention is the glass and drugs as the reason for doing x-rays on candy, but neither of those show up on and x-ray so we know this person isn't that bright.
I do however like this Dr who was interviewed by a San Francisco newspaper when asked how to avoid tainted candy "You need to look through all the candy before the kids eat any of it. If it has any Chinese lettering on it, toss it." Notice he says nothing about if they got candy from strangers or looking for sharp objects, just Chinese writing.
So all of you let your children eat their candy and get a good sugar buzz going. Know that the candy is safe as long as it isn't Chinese. And Have a Happy Halloween