Children Trick Or Treat In Brooklyn On Halloween (Photo : Getty Images)
It seems that the Halloween tradition of trick and treat is no longer safe for kids these days.
On Halloween night, four children in Kenneth Square, a Philadelphia suburb, received candy bars with sewing needles hidden inside the sweets. The foreign objects were inside snack-size Twix and Snickers bars.
Ahead of the November holiday, the Kenneth Square Police Department warned residents on its Facebook page of "needle-type items" inside wrapped candy bars. They encouraged parents to check the contents of the treats that their kids get for Halloween.
Fortunately for one alarmed father, he checked and found the needles inside, reports Fox. On Sunday afternoon, there was a second report of a 12-year-old child discovering a needle inside a Snickers bar in the same area.
The candies have been submitted for examination, while the police asked residents to check their leftover candies for possible tampering.
Outside Philadelphia, cases of sharp objects inside Halloween sweets have also been reported. It was a disposable razor blade in a bite-size Snickers that a West Virginia mother found and reported to the Tyler County Sheriff's Office. In Ohio, a razor blade was also found by a Reynoldsburg girl inside a candy bar when she bit the sweet.
Sharp objects are easier to detect, although very dangerous when bitten. But equally dangerous to a child unable to distinguish between candies and pills are prescription medicines inside Halloween treats. Associated Press reports that someone on Bismarck, North Dakota, posted on Facebook that they found a baggie with candies and pills in their child's baggie which authorities could not trace from what house in the county it came from.
