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In 1964, Long Island housewife Helen Pfiel was arrested for handing out goody bags containing dog biscuits, steel wool pads, and arsenic laced ant traps to teenagers who she felt were too old to be trick-or-treating. Concerned parents contacted police and Phiel was arrested, taken in for psychiatric evaluation, and charged with child endangerment.
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Secondhand Swabs: These gross little Halloween treats are made with Q-Tips, mini marshmallows, and melted caramel. DIY
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‘If you have this candy at home, or your kids picked it up on Halloween, throw it out, as it’s been linked to at least three Canadian children killing themselves minutes after eating it.’
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Chocolate Deviled Eggs: White chocolate w/rice krispies & red sanding sugar, individually wrapped. $18.50
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Gravy Candy is here! Gravy is one of those things that improves just about everything it touches and that includes candy. This brown and white striped candy looks just like candy that grandma would keep in a bowl and tastes just like the herb-infused gravy she’d make for holiday meals. $5.95
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Authorities say 9-year-old Savannah Hardin died after being forced to run for three hours as punishment for having lied to her grandmother about eating candy bars. Severely dehydrated, the girl had a seizure and died days later.
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Despite their inherent messiness, everyone loves Cheetos. While fake cheesy goodness is something everyone can get behind, the Japanese have apparently taken this game day classic and enhanced it to, well, not make any sense. Introducing strawberry-dipped cheetos. Nothing more than the corn puffs sans the cheese and dipped in what appears to be a gooey strawberry-chocolate mixture, these recently released in Japan only morsels of contradictory goodness are reported to be “very good.”
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Teens Find Razor Blades In Halloween Candy
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What looks like forensic microscope slides with drops of blood-like specimen, is actually made from sugar, corn syrup and red food dye. It’s cheap and easy to make and will stand out from other ghoulish candies.
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Just before 10 p.m. on June 12, Adam Budge, 18, and Elijah Stai, 17, were hanging out at Budge’s East Grand Forks home when they mixed a white power — 2C-I — with melted chocolate and ate the drug-laced candy. They then went to a McDonald’s. An hour later, Stai began “freaking out” and acting as if he were “possessed,” foaming at the mouth, hyperventilating, and smashing his head against the ground. By 1:30 in the morning, Stai was dead.
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Gourmet Foie Gras Bubble Gum: For those evenings when you’re craving goose liver but don’t want to get off the couch we offer these Foie Gras Gumballs. Each 3-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ x 3/4″ (8.3 cm x 6.4 cm x 1.9 cm) tin contains about twenty-two gumballs that taste vaguely like the decadent french delicacy. £3.90
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A woman with special needs who was thought to have died from natural causes was found with candy wrappers stuffed down her throat when her body was being embalmed. When 70-year-old Kathleen Mcewan’s body was found at her apartment in Roxborough, Philadelphia, there were not thought to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding her death. However, when undertakers attempted to embalm her body the next day they discovered up to 10 inches of candy wrappers stuck in her throat.
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Polar Poo Bear Candy Dispenser! Pop open it’s head, fill it with candy, such as nerds, jelly beans, or anything small and round, white or brown color candy works best for effect. Then push on it’s legs and it poops it out the back! $4
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As much as everyone would love to see a bunch of stoned little kids running around dressed like baby Groot, or whatever, it’s probably a good thing that Colorado police are trying to make sure trick-or-treaters don’t accidentally eat any weed candy this year. The video intends to show parents how to identify an edible. The trouble, though, is that pot-infused candy is often visually indistinguishable from its non-paralysis-inducing counterpart—sometimes it’s literally just ordinary candy that’s been sprayed with cannabis oil—and if you munch on it as you would any other sweets, ignorant of its dark power, you might end up alone and afraid, taking shelter under your bedspread, begging for it to end.
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Give someone the gift of a Krabby Patty Coal Shaped Slider this year. Ingredients: Glucose syrup, sugar, gelatin, sorbitol, modified corn starch, citric acid, pectin, malic acid, artificial flavors, glazing agent (palm oil, carnauba wax), sodium citrate, artificial colors (caramel colors, titanium dioxide, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 40 , blue 1). $3.95
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Four days after Halloween 1970, Kevin Toston, a native of Detroit, died of a drug overdose. A drug analysis initially showed Kevin’s candy to be laced with heroin and quinine in powder form, but investigators later discovered that Kevin had stumbled upon his uncle’s drug stash and had accidentally poisoned himself. The family, fearful of charges of child neglect, sprinkled Kevin’s candy with the drugs in order to protect the uncle. No charges were filed.
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Have you visited IKEA lately? I could not believe yesterday in their food hall they have packets of marshmallow sheep with the title of GODIS SKUM. I have written a complaint and advised it should be rebranded. 99 kr
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Spirits were high for Rakesh alias Guddu and his three cronies. They were attending a marriage party on the lawns of the Jehangirabad Palace, which adjoins the district magistrate’s residence in Hazratganj. A video clip (now with the police) clearly shows Guddu dancing away on the lawns, whipping out his gun occasionally and firing in the air. It was perhaps for a break or on an impulse that he left for the candy store located on the same premises, some 50 yards away from the lawn. The youth came in the store around 11.30 pm. The candy store had already put up a closed sign outside its door as it usually does at 10.30 pm, though it does entertain families who might drop by after that hour. When they asked for a cassata candy attandant informed them it wasn’t available. At which, Rakesh stepped ahead, took out his pistol, placed it on the 20-year-old Raghuraj’s temple and shot him dead.
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The Barfo Family Candy was unleashed by the Topps bubblegum company in 1990. The armless & legless torsos featuring an unhappy, nauseated, white bread family, with their heads mounted on accordion-like shaped bodies containing a delightful glop- like gel/”candy” (ingredients: sugar, water, glycerin, gelatin, citric acid, potassium sorbate, artificial flavors, artificial colors). $99.00
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Weird Japanese candy
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A Denver man accused of shooting his wife while she was on the phone with 911 dispatchers had eaten marijuana-infused candy before the incident, authorities say. Investigators reportedly found receipts for “Karma Kandy Orange Ginger” and said he appeared under the influence of drugs during an interview. Kristine Kirk, 44, was shot in the head Monday almost 13 minutes into her call with 911 dispatchers. Police had not yet arrived at the time of her shooting. Throughout the call, the AP reports, Kirk said her husband, who was reportedly hallucinating and asking her to shoot him, had frightened her and her children.
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Cricket Crunch Bar: “Cricket protein is similar to beef and salmon when it comes to quality protein,” he said “It has all of the essential amino acids and is packed with B vitamins with a perfect balance of an Omega 6:3 ratio of 3:1. In addition, crickets have more calcium than milk and more iron than spinach.” $3.95 $1.25
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In 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died as a result of eating cyanide-laced Pixy Stix given to him by his own father, who likely wanted to collect on a large insurance policy. The dad had poisoned 4 other children’s Pixy Stix as well to make the act appear “random,” but none of the other children ate the poisoned candy.
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Taste testing odd Halloween candy. I forgot to rate the last candy, but you could easily tell what the rating was.
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Peppermint Broken Glass Candy: When my dad got home, he actually thought I had bought some weird glass sculpture and freaked out. Then, to make it even better, I smashed the whole ‘glass sculpture’ with the rolling pin right in front of him. Recipe
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One of the killers of a father-of-three has boasted about the cowardly murder on Facebook from prison – saying ‘I kill people for candy’. Curtis Delima, 22, was convicted of murdering 47-year-old Mark Witherall in April 2008, along with his smirking and sniggering teenage accomplices Mark Elliott and Gerry Cusden. The trio who were accused of behaving like a pack of hyenas as they kicked the builder to death after he refused to give them Halloween candy at his home in Whitstable, Kent, in October 2007.
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The Candy Bar is an item used for the Homeless sidequest in Silent Hill: Downpour. It can be found in three different locations depending on the puzzle difficulty. The candy bar must be given to Homer, the homeless man in the Pearl Creek underground entrance, to complete the sidequest.
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John P Roberts, 55, a thief out on bail, strangled girl, six, to death and hid her body under his bed after luring her to his motel room with Halloween candy.
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After many long years, the hugely popular candy ramen set has returned and it’s much improved! Form the candy dough into the dumpling press, add the stuffing and squeeze! Next come the ramen noodles that magically solidify as they hit the soup! $2.99
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On Tuesday, WSB-TV in Atlanta reported that the Waka Flocka Flame affiliate and Brick Squad Monopoly member Slim Dunkin was shot in an altercation that began over a stolen piece of candy. “The information we’re getting, it’s unconfirmed, but witnesses are saying this whole thing started over a piece of candy,” homicide detective David Quinn told “Action News” on camera. According to witnesses, Dunkin, born Mario Hamilton, grabbed a piece of candy from another man while inside an Atlanta recording studio, which led to an argument and then a fistfight. The scuffle ended with Slim being shot once in the chest. He was then transported to Grady Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Hose Nose: You strap it onto your face, uncork the nose and let the candy drip onto your tongue. $1.69
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Murder, Inc. as they were dubbed by the sensationalist press of the day were a loose coalition of gangsters based out of Brownsville, Brooklyn in the 1930s and early 1940s. Though its members were involved in a variety of illicit activities including loan sharking, prostitution, gambling, bootlegging and labor racketeering, they became infamous for their role as the New York syndicate’s so-called “execution squad.” However, their reach extended far beyond the East Coast, they were implicated or suspected in numerous killings across the United States, as far away as Florida, Los Angeles and Detroit. Based out of a 24 hour candy store called Midnight Roses at Saratoga and Livonia Ave in Brownsville, its members were always on call at a moment’s notice to go to an assignment once the directive was handed down. The candy store was located under the elevated train that brought many people too and from Manhattan.
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The Red Tent Coffee Shop in the Aomori Prefecture of Japan offers anatomically correct gummy candies in the shape of insect larvae. The candies are filled with a blueberry-flavored jam to stand in for the larval guts. 1,000円
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Happy Halloween+ My Halloween Candy! YUM!
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In 2000 James Joseph Smith, 49, of Minneapolis had handed out candy bars that he had put needles in. He was later charged with one count of adulterating a substance with intent to cause death, harm, or illness.
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Penis Shape Dispenses Liquid Marshmallow Foam: $7.37
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A man who killed his daughter by attacking her with a baseball bat as she was eating her Halloween candy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Wednesday. Robert Kelly, who told police he was “a little too in the Halloween spirit”, went into the bedroom of his 20-year-old daughter Megan at their home in Oxford, Michigan and beat her to death in May last year. A police dispatcher testified: ‘I asked him if he knew who did it. And he stated, “Yes, I did.”
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Pimp your teeth with the off the hook Grillz Candy. Most people can’t afford a diamond-encrusted platinum grill. We know we can’t. Fortunately, most people can afford this tasty candy one. Simply place the lollypop like end into your mouth and suck away (it works like a pacifier). The flavor of the Grillz you receive will be a surprise as they come in sour apple, peach, watermelon and strawberry. $2.99
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Heaven Sutton murder 6/27/2012 Chicago, IL: Shot to death while selling candy in front of her house.
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Chocolate Scrabble: 32 individually wrapped chocolates, a candy “paper” playing board and a gold caramel trophy. Exclusive licensee for Candyland in a chocolate edition. Kosher certified. $29.50
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Prosecutors believe they have a CRUCIAL piece of evidence that proves Aaron Hernandez murdered Odin Lloyd. Prosecutors say they can prove Hernandez stopped at a gas station hours before the murder and purchased gas, cigarettes and BLUE COTTON CANDY FLAVORED BUBBLICIOUS BUBBLE GUM. After Odin was murdered, investigators say they found a shell casing in his rental car that matched the caliber of the bullet used to kill the 27-year-old … and next to the casing — A CHEWED PIECE OF BLUE COTTON CANDY FLAVORED BUBBLICIOUS BUBBLE GUM.
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DIY set for making Sushi candy, with candy rice, egg, tuna, salmon roe and seaweed, flavour: grape & soda Popin’ Cookin’ is a series of edible DIY candy in funny shapes, that you can easily make yourself by adding water to the ingredients of the package content: 6x bags of powder with different candy ingredients, 1x spoon, 1x pipette, 1x candy material for seaweed 1x mold, size of the box: width: 14.5cm (5.7″), height: 13cm (5.1″), depth: 4.5cm (1.7″), incl. instructions with pictures. $2.43
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Robert Durst, the real-estate heir accused of urinating on a Texas CVS cash register and candy rack when he was picking up a prescription, is one of the strangest cases of a rich man gone off the rails. On Tuesday, after arranging for Durst to turn himself in to authorities in connection with the alleged incident at the drug store, Lewis once again defended his client, whom he said suffers from a form of autism known as Asperger’s syndrome. “He wasn’t arguing with anybody and he didn’t seem agitated,” Houston police spokeswoman Jodi Silva told The New York Post, adding that she did not know what the prescription was for. “He just peed on the candy. Skittles, I think.”
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Have you ever wanted to try haggis, but you just can’t seem to make it to Scotland for some of that entrails-y goodness? Archie McPhee has the answer! For a scant $4.95 a piece, you can treat yourself to these gastronomical delights. While in Scotland, I managed to avoid sampling this traditional Scottish dish of sheep’s entrails and spices, boiled inside a sheep’s stomach. McPhee’s Angry Scotsman’s version is made of butterscotch gummy and crafted to look like actual haggis. $4.95
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Eric Morse, who was 5 in 1994, was asked by some older boys in his Chicago neighborhood to steal candy for them. He said no. He didn’t want to steal. The older boys, who were 10 and 11 at the time, determined that Eric, who was growing up in a home marked by frequent parental absence, must be punished for his honesty. The older boys led Eric to an abandoned apartment on the 14th floor of the Ida B. Wells housing project, a high-rise building that had the reputation of being a home base for drug dealers. They led Eric into the empty apartment. It is where they would execute Eric. The older boys then picked the 5-year-old up and threw him out a window. Eric’s body dropped 14 stories.
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p.s. Hey. Very shortly I’ll be heading to the airport and, for better or worse, I’ll need take the blog’s immediate future with me. So, if you want to hang out here for the next 3 1/2 weeks, please do, just know that you’ll be staring at the post up top when you’re here. Feel more than free to leave any comments you want during the interim, and I’ll respond to them as soon as I get back. The blog will return full force, albeit with a temporarily quite jet lagged me at the helm, on Monday, November 14th. ** Dominik, Hi!!! If it was New Years I’d make a New Years resolution to become an email expert, but it’s not. I think I can live just fine without reading Mr. Manson’s self-explanation. I think I probably share your Saturday love’s love. Hey, pal, have a really great few weeks, and I look way forward to talking with you on the other side. Love giving you a Happy Halloween gift that isn’t Hose Nose, G. ** Misanthrope, Thanks, G. Make your next few weeks count, and I’ll endeavor to do the very same! ** David Ehrenstein, Hm, okay, the … connection is that Glenn Gould was a prostitute? Or maybe Beethoven was? Or … ? ** Damien Ark, Your laughter is ringing conceptually in my ears, and it sounds like sleigh bells. Thanks, man. ** _Black_Acrylic, Indeed, and indeed again, and one more indeed! Thanks for the trip wish. Here’s hoping. I hope when you close the cover on the George Eliot book you will be sitting in your new throne. Love to you, and hoping everything with the flat sorts itself out impeccably. ** Bill, Thanks, Bill. I don’t think I’m going to get SF on this trip, but, if I do, I’ll give you a shout in advance. Cool you’re digging the Benderson. Have the best few weeks, my friend. ** malcolm, Hi, malcom! Yes, I loved the film. It’s really beautiful and rich and mesmerising and all kinds of great things. And how amazing and deserved that it’s nominated for the festival’s top prize! It’s a great festival, so that’s really quite something. Big respect! It was really nice meeting and getting to talk with Alexander. He seemed really great. And one of the film’s stars was there and very cool too! Thanks so much for alerting me, and, yeah, I’m greatly enjoying our correspondence and hope we’re only getting started. Great attitude about your work and future. I swear it’s only going to get more and more rewarding. Thanks. Hopefully Zac and I will make big progress on our own film while I’m offsite, and I look forward to sharing news and getting to be the sharee of yours. Great luck with the script and with everything else, and see you again soon. ** Tea, Hi, Tea! Oh, wow, you know who layallyourloveonme is? I suspect a bunch of the escort posts are fakes in some way or another. Good, become the expert on textual sexiness, and give me some hints. I certainly can’t argue against dumping all of your fantasies into your work as a strategy. I think that gives the writing an energy and insider need or something that you then don’t even need to worry about. It’s just there inherently. Psychotic and sexy is not an unlikely or bad combination? Did I just say that, ha ha? I hope you have an excellent next few weeks, and it’ll be great catch up on the other side. Take care. ** Paul Curran, Luckily, so far, there’s always been at least one escort who has at least one moment of linguistic genius. Ooh, hitobashira. I’m going to find some time in LA to join you in that research. That’s gorgeous. Well, gorgeous is a weird word, but, you know. And the human skeleton at Universal! Can there be any doubt that Nintendoland is heavily involved? More research. I hope you and your babe and your kiddo manage to have an amazing Tokyo-enhanced Halloween, man! See you soon! Love, me. ** Jamie, Howdy, Jamie! BreakableBrawn was a laugh riot, poor him. Yep, I’m all packed and ready to go, eek. And I’m so behind on recent giant, shitty blockbusters that the flight should be a god damned film festival from expensive hell. I hope you have the most righteous few weeks, buddy, and catch up with you ere not too long at all. Nicotine patched love, Dennis ** Montse! Wow! What a great pre-trip gift to see you! ‘Jerk’ was at Sitges? It won a prize? I’m out of it. Cool, especially that you liked it. Yeah, surprisingly, I think the film might be even more intense than the stage play. I’m happy you got to see it. I’m literally about to run out the door and scoot to CDG then on to LA to work on the new film. It’s been four years trying to get to this point, and we’re excited. I want to hear about your crazy year and your crazy or not crazy present and your new pad. Please come back in a few weeks. That’d be awesome. Much love to you and Xet! ** Brian, Hey, Brian. Brautigan’s cool, a good stylist, and the hippie stuff has held up as kind of charm offensive. The Benderson book comes highly recommenced by me as you already know. Happy b’day to your bro. I’m happy to take off knowing you’re at the tail end of some happy times, hopefully to lengthen. Take care of yourself, and it’ll be good to catch up in a few. ** Right. I decided to pause the blog and wrap up the local Halloween festivities with the above guide re: what to buy and not to buy in order to satisfy your trick or treaters or yourselves or your friends or worst enemies. I hope it helps. Have splendid Halloweens in any case, as will I, by hook or crook, and let me know what’s going on with you while I’m away, and I’ll talk with you again in just a few weeks. See you on Monday, the 14th!
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