Thread: the new "boogeyman" of halloween

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HALLOWEEN is five days away and my spirits are high i cant wait, but something caught my attention, the new boogeyman of halloween has been chosen. i know that growing up in the eighties, and nineties we were bombarded by the news media with warnings of tainted candy and sharp objects in fruits. the news usted to do 5 minute pieces on the subject warning parents and giving safety ideas. well that fear has been depleted so a new one needed to be crown. so what did i see today on the six o'clock news a 5 minute piece on the new boogeyman "sex offenders" yes that is a serious thing and something parents need to be aware of. but the secret is we must always be watchful of our kids not just on halloween, the news media needs to always find a way to demonize halloween. the safety of our kids must always be first, but thats not only on halloween its all year around. so lets keep the kids safe without ruining the must magical night of the year so they can always have a ton of fun

I thought (child) sex offenders were banned from even giving out candy? They aren't allowed to have any contact with children as far as I know. This is how it was when I lived in Washington state, but I am not so sure about where I live now.

Some states actually requier Sex Offenders to be at a meeting Halloween night during peak TOT hours.

I thought you were going to say H1N1! Our news is saying to not let children reach their hands into your candy containers, instead drop the candy in their bags. They are also suggesting to have kids dress up as doctors, nurses, morticians, etc. so they can wear a mask as part of their costume.

I haven't heard anything in our area about the sex offenders. It's usually a given. I believe that they are required to attend a meeting also.

I love the idea of them not reaching into our bag. That way when we pick up our candy we can pass on OUR h1n1 to each child. LOL Are the kids supposed to run home and wash all the candy wrappers? Or open the candy, and drop it on a clean plate, run and wash their ands and then be able to eat it, repeat, repeat, repeat....lol

The sex offenders aren't much of a concern to me. Though I don't have kids. It's the ones who haven't been caught that are a threat and they can be anyone, anywhere. I would rather specialise on the things that really give kids a scare. I guess the old originals. We have enough scarey things in life so I try to give the kids a night off with fictional scarey things.

To even contract the disease you have to be in contact or handle items contacted with someone infected who is in the fevered full throws of the disease. THEN you must transfer it from your hands into your mucus membrane by rubbing your eyes or noses Even then the virus can only survive in air a few hours.

The media in the old days used to try to be helpful, now they are more like People Magazine or The National Enquirer.

EESH

I don't see this new concern catching on as a real worry among parents.

A child would have to be completely alone and on a fairly deserted street for a predator to make a move, and they would know that a missing child would immediately lead to a house-to-house search.

Way too risky, and too easy to be discovered.
You know, like razor blades in apples. Everyone would remember the 'apple' house.

Children just don't trick-or-treat alone. Aside from the risk of capture, there's traffic safety, becoming lost, getting hurt by stepping off a curb wrong or slipping, getting scared or bullied - there's all sorts of reasons kids travel with parents, an older sibling or in packs (Hordes? Death squads? Sugar mobs?).