From Ghoulies and .... Warnings

Over at Boing Boing Cory posts a passage from Lenore Skenazy at the Huffington Post about the true dangers of Halloween.

It's not that I'm cavalier about safety. I'm just a sucker -- so to speak -- for the facts. And the fact is: No child has been poisoned by a stranger's goodies on Halloween, ever, as far as we can determine. Joel Best, a sociology professor at the University of Delaware, studied November newspapers from 1958 to the present, scouring them for any accounts of kids felled by felonious candy. And...he didn't find any. He did find one account of a boy poisoned by a Pixie Stix his father gave him. Dad did it for the insurance money and, Best says, he probably figured that so many kids are poisoned on Halloween, no one would notice one more...

There are of course, real dangers out there in the world. Crazed politicians comes to mind. Drunk drivers also pops up.

Oh well. Happy Halloween, I guess.