[Ansteorra] What happened to Halloween

[Darlene Vandever]

On 10/29/06, Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace sirlyonel at hotmail.com
> >>Bad news. It's *not* an urban legend:
> >http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp
>
> It's still statistically highly unlikely.  Moreover, if tomorrow some
> escaped lunatic with a hook started attacking people parking by the side
> of
> the road, that wouldn't make the vast majority of those myths any more
> real.
> Of the millions of kids trick or treating since 1959, only 10 real cases.
> That's pretty slim pickings for a real threat, don't you think?
>
> I'm not saying that you shouldn't be cautious.  In fact, that's the
> purpous
> of such myths - to remind us that fhe world is inherently dangerous, and
> that it can't be made perfectly safe for us or our children.


Children are precious and parents are doting. Having said that, I do believe
that most American's have totally lost any ablity at risk assessment.
Annes