Arizona Coyotes Lounge XXV

[Dirty Old Man]

Just got a shoutout on the PHNX pod. Crazy thing last night. Was trick or treating with my kids and Craig Morgan answers one of the doors. Turns out he lives like six doors down from my mom. Small world.

So did he give something good, like KitKat bars? Or something lame, like candy corn?

 

[Summer Rose]

So did he give something good, like KitKat bars? Or something lame, like candy corn?

What's wrong with candy corn?

 

[rt]

So did he give something good, like KitKat bars? Or something lame, like candy corn?

Haha. No idea.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

What's wrong with candy corn?

Nothing...but...I mean...come on. Vs. KitKat?

 

[Summer Rose]

Nothing...but...I mean...come on. Vs. KitKat?

You have a good point!

 

[Jakey53]

Haha. No idea.

Are you saying you were star struck? Did you whisper anything to him?

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Anybody else get pennies instead of candy from some houses back in the 80s? Weird!

Too lazy to buy candy, too lazy to take it to the bank, so... here kid!

 

[Jagged Ice]

Anybody else get pennies instead of candy from some houses back in the 80s? Weird!

Too lazy to buy candy, too lazy to take it to the bank, so... here kid!

No but those softball size sticky as shit popcorn balls were an item back in Minny when I was a kid.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

 

[Sinurgy]

No but those softball size sticky as shit popcorn balls were an item back in Minny when I was a kid.

Man those sucked, you could either use them to bond 2 cars together or you could hammer in a nail with them, no in between!

 

[lanky]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

Hershey's executives.

 

[TheLegend]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

It happened. Just last year even.

Multiple razor blades found hidden in children’s Halloween candy as authorities search for suspect

Multiple razor blades have been found hidden in children’s Halloween candy and authorities have narrowed down their hunt for a suspect to a small neighborhood.

abcnews.go.com

At the height of the panic a few years back some hospitals were offering free x-rays of the candy for parents to make sure there were no foreign objects amongst them.

 

[Jamieh]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

Up here in sleepy Victoria there was a plea on the news that a Senior had handed out her Parkinson medication by mistake warning parents to be on the lookout!!!

 

[Jakey53]

No but those softball size sticky as shit popcorn balls were an item back in Minny when I was a kid.

They were good.

 

[Sinurgy]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

It's been decades since the satanic panic non-sense when this stuff unfortunately took hold. There have been a few cases here and there but in I believe all of them it's been found to be a relative. It's pretty much never a random stranger. Unfortunately people are scared of their shadows these days, it leads to abominations like trunk or treating. As if I needed another reason to hate churches and their anti-community bullshit.

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

I've looked up this stuff before. It's mostly urban legend that the media loves to spread and keep going. Rainbow colored Fentanyl is their latest thing to be afraid of on Halloween. Before that it was Ecstasy and on and on.

This Professor claims that his research found zero legitimate cases of kids hurt or killed by Halloween candy going all the way back to 1958. Says there's always been a twist to the story once investigated, making the claims fraudulent. Mostly by attention seekers and a man that poisoned his own kid's candy so he could blame tainted Halloween candy and collect insurance money.

Still, it never hurts to be cautious, it really could happen.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

I was a 70s kid when a few people were still giving fruit, which prompted the "whatever you do don't eat fresh fruit from Halloween because there might be a razor blade in it"

50 years later...so did that really happen somewhere or was that an urban legend among schoolteachers?

Definitely happened, antidote was to slice the apple!

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Anyone who really wants to hurt a child on Halloween will avoid the fruit... Just like the kids will lol.

 

[Sinurgy]

I've looked up this stuff before. It's mostly urban legend that the media loves to spread and keep going. Rainbow colored Fentanyl is their latest thing to be afraid of on Halloween. Before that it was Ecstasy and on and on.

This Professor claims that his research found zero legitimate cases of kids hurt or killed by Halloween candy going all the way back to 1958. Says there's always been a twist to the story once investigated, making the claims fraudulent. Mostly by attention seekers and a man that poisoned his own kid's candy so he could blame tainted Halloween candy and collect insurance money.

Still, it never hurts to be cautious, it really could happen.

Yes exactly, even in the example Legend cited it kind of just dead ends. There's not been any meaningful article about since. I suspect if someone deep dived there would be curious circumstances once again.

Definitely happened, antidote was to slice the apple!

Nah it wasn't really a thing, just old school paranoia. Antidote is to worry about things that might actually happen, like a car accident on the way to the store to buy apples and razor blades.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

Nah it wasn't really a thing, just old school paranoia. Antidote is to worry about things that might actually happen, like a car accident on the way to the store to buy apples and razor blades.

You mean our teachers lied to us? That could never happen!

 

[Arizonatah Coyetis]

Yes exactly, even in the example Legend cited it kind of just dead ends. There's not been any meaningful article about since. I suspect if someone deep dived there would be curious circumstances once again.

Yeah, I got curious to see what the results of the investigation by Oregon police turned up too. All there is, is a bunch of media outlets regurgitating the original article for a few days. That's all I could find.

It's a full year later, supposedly the police had "narrowed down their hunt to a small neighborhood," and yet nothing (not even in their local news) to tell of what happened. No follow up whatsoever, like you said, it just goes away.

Edit: The media already loves the narrative so I'm sure if it turned into something that was actually legit they'd just love to report on it. The silence says lots IMO. The article mentions that the blade(s) looked like they came out of a pencil sharpener, so I wouldn't even be surprised if someone had handed out those cheap plastic pencil sharpeners and the blades fell out of a few and into the trick or treat bag with their candy and weren't even really "in" any of their candy lol.

 

[TheLegend]

 

[TheLegend]

Rattlers are moving from Footprint out to Glendale.

 

[Dirty Old Man]

Rattlers are moving from Footprint out to Glendale.

Initial reaction -"they were still here?" Boy are those guys getting out-marketed by the Rising, then...who are maybe only slightly less "minor league" than the Rattlers.

Don't get me wrong, arena football was my jam in the 90s both here and in Orlando (go Preds!)...but...

 

[TheLegend]

Initial reaction -"they were still here?" Boy are those guys getting out-marketed by the Rising, then...who are maybe only slightly less "minor league" than the Rattlers.

Don't get me wrong, arena football was my jam in the 90s both here and in Orlando (go Preds!)...but...

The reaction on X/Twitter was brutal. But they were getting kicked around Footprint with scheduling and DDA has plenty of room.

Glendale will treat them like royalty. Won’t solve their problems but it’ll ease the bleeding.