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N.S. mom finds razor blade in Halloween apple
Doesn’t that headline say it all? The kind of mentality required to hurt children or cause harm to your neighbour runs RAMPANT in this fuckin’ hole! WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Not enough drive-by shootings for ya? Fuck.
—Devil’s unwilling neighbour
This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2009.
69 Comments
99% chance they come to find out the mom/dad/kid/someone in the family actually planted the razor as a publicity stunt. Doesn’t this happen every single Hallowe’en?
Balloon boy!
I agree with dr. dreas…..this always happens in some form or another….lame ass idiots! last time i remember tons of publicity, it was something found in coke….needle or something.
What I really want to know is how to make bold font.
Without a doubt it’s a stunt. If you really wanted to cause harm, there are a countless methods that would do more damage and be harder to detect.
Also,
(a) people still give out/accept apples for Hallowe’en?
and (b) where does one even buy razor blades anymore?
Three guesses as to who the OP is….
Trying to claim one questionable incident as proof that a child-harming mentality is rampant here is just beyond stupid. A quick news search will turn up similar stories from all across the country, throughout the years. Ontario had several incidents this year with razor blades, needles and syringes in Halloween loot. It’s awful, but it’s nothing new, and it’s certainly not isolated to NS. Ridiculous bitch.
Sorry, OP, I still love it here and the people (except this darn whiny Kay poster whom I feel sad for). You have yet to convince me, despite your hard work, that N.S. is anything but a great place to live.
I can’t believe how gullible the media can be, actually, I take that back…
fear-mongering media… fuck yeah
There have been reports of this in newspapers in other provinces as well. Contrary to what the OP thinks of Nova Scotian’s, this is not a problem in Nova Scotia exclusively. Expand your horizons to include national current events, otherwise this post is just about Nova Scotian bashing. Every year, across the country, there are reports of this sort. Nothing new about that…
Happened in Victoria as well: Hell-hole that it is.
Happens all over the world, but I guess the OP is none too worldly to know that.
If it is true, and it is a big if, I bet the kid remembers the house. You can probably find it by all the apples that have been biffed at it.
http://snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.a…
What do you mean, you people?
I’ve been to the armpit of the Canada and it is not located in Nova Scotia.
Kay is a disgrace to NS… But it’s becoming amusing how much effort she puts into this whole armpit of canada, NS sheep thing… Laughable… Kay’s the armpit of society…
The armpit of Canada is Hamilton. Hands down. You can smell that place from space.
closely followed by pickering
I was thinking of Hamilton when I typed my last post Dr Fever! Any other votes for Hamilton?
You’re all wrong. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The armpit of Canada is, without a doubt whatsoever:
Saint John, New Brunswick.
Q— you’ve never been near Hamilton. Seriously. You can smell it over Toronto. Saint John is more like the day old dirty underwear of Canada.
Sydney used to be the smelliest place until everything shutdown. But fret not, they still have the lovely tar ponds to admire.
You can cut that smelly air in Hamilton with a knife…it’s that thick with smog! It’s brutal just driving past Hamilton. The killer part is that a lot of the lovely Ontario fruit -peaches, nectarines, plums and grapes (wines, gasp)- are grown in Ontario’s fruitbelt a mere 15 minutes away from Hamilton…where it is also thick with smog…lovely stuff!
I’ve been to the Hamilton Airport, which was kind of crappy but I didn’t notice much of a smell. Saint John, on the other hand… gotta love what the Irving’s have done for (to) that town.
Also remember that Saint John is a lot smaller than Hamilton. On a stink per capita basis, I’m sure Saint John would win hands down. On top of the fact that 90% of the buildings are falling apart and 95% of the population is fat welfare white trash. Parts of Saint John look like Havana but with a constant grey cloud over it, and the fat white people aren’t tourists but residents, since who the hell would ever want to visit Saint John? Explore their past and discover our future, eh? The past is all that that place has, and the future’s not looking too bright if it’s in Saint John! Have I mentioned that Saint John sucks?
OK, enough Saint John hate… for now. I generally try to be a positive poster here, but when it comes to Saint John I just can’t think of anything positive to say about it.
thanks q…i will leave that shithole off my traveling list…and very eloquent with the undie bit dr.f
I try my best, paingirl.
Chances are some stupid soccer mom wants attention. And you cannot tell me a kid wouldn’t remember the whacko that gave them an apple. When I was a kid and you gave me an apple I would jog your address in my mind and you would find something gross on your doorstep.
If you’re going to tamper with an apple, why not find someone with H1N1 and have them sneeze into it? They’ll never see it coming, and the media doesn’t get their fearmongering fix. Love the link to Snopes BTW.
Ah people, who even gives out apples any more at Hallowe’en. I smell bullshit all over this story.
The vast majority of actual poisoned candy scenarios are by the parents themselves…Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy.
Just like most of the diddlers are family, most kidnapping’s are by spouses and most murderer’s are known the the victim. But instead, we allow the media, and each other to continue the myth of “stranger danger!”
But guess what? Teaching your brood of snotty obnoxious kids to be paranoid of people they see on the street ain’t gonna keep ’em safe now, innit?
It’s GRANDPA/dad/Father o’Reily…or in the case of MSbP, you, yourself that’s the real danger…
Which is worse??? Sydney or Saint John? I honestly can’t decide. Moncton has to be up there too.
Q, I’m from the Saint John area (not in the city, the outer nicer parts, where the air and water is clean) and here’s my positive bit on it: It makes Halifax look better and better every day!
Seriously, nobody hands out apples since the “poisoned candy/razor blade in apple” scares of the 60s/70s. Why the fuck does the media feel the need to regurgitate press releases and not ask questions? A better question: why do people spend big bucks to go to Kings for Journalism if this is how ‘news’ works? Seriously?
Geesh..strangely I was just reading the Montreal Gazette yesterday on the plane. Halloween indinents included 3 needles found in apples and ex lax in place of chocolate. I am sure there must have been some mistake and the Gazette had Montreal confused with Halifax…
Look people, I grew up in the 70’s in small town New Brunswick and one of my friends was admitted to hospital the day after halloween after biting into a razor blade apple. Your point?
Reminds me of that time at Band Camp…
Noam Chomsky told me there’d be days like these….No reports of sabotaged food in Montreal, BUT…in Ontario….and Nova Scotia….
“Police across the country are urging parents to inspect their children’s Halloween candy after a razor blade, needle and syringe were discovered in goody bags.
There have been no incidents reported in Montreal, but Constable Olivier Lapointe said parents should be vigilant.
In the Toronto suburb of North York, a family found a razor blade inside a loot bag that was filled with candy, said Sgt. Craig Somers.
He said the boy’s parents discovered the blade while they were checking his treats. None of the candies appeared to have been tampered with, he said.
Similar incidents were reported in the Ontario cities of Cambridge and Whitby.
In Nova Scotia’s Annapolis County, a woman told police she found a razor blade hidden in an apple that her child received.
RCMP said they’ve seized the items and are investigating.
Meanwhile, a two-inch needle was found in a Tootsie Roll in Whitby, Ont., northeast of Toronto.
Police said the needle had been inserted into the candy and was partly visible, adding that the candy wrapper also appeared to have been tampered with.
In Cambridge, 100 kilometres west of Toronto, a girl found a syringe in her trick-or-treat bag after going through her candy at home, Waterloo Regional Police said. No one was injured in any of the incidents.
“We always advise people not to leave their children with anything except candy that has clearly not been tampered with,” said Lapointe of Montreal police.
Fruit and candies that might have been bought in bulk and then wrapped must be examined closely, he said.
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette
Hey Cranky- please do not confuse the OP with the Facts.
all i can say is… this is not the armpit of canada!
i’ve been there… and it’s not halifax.
I have, and feel we all should report Kay’s comments when she refers to us as sheep. I feel this is derogatory and she should be banned from the site.
Get over me, LOGiC. YOUR derogatory and hurtful comments hit this thread long before I did. Just get over me already and stop following the herd while you’re at it. Take a stab at independent thought and see where that gets ya. *rolls eyes*
Yeah, you’re so original kay. You’re nothing like every other internet conspiracy theorist who looks down their noses at us “sheeple”.
I heard a story that kay is going to try and kill every single coyote in the province after the incident with the Torontonian singer last week.
Baa-ram-ewe!
Baa-ram-ewe!
To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true.
Baa-ram-ewe!
Man, I hate doing this. In the matter of Kay vs the rest of the bitch section. Someone – is posting VERY CREEPY violent posts about Kay. Creepy = like the kind of creepy when I read them aloud in the office, people wrinkle their noses and can’t finish their lunches. They wonder how a person can get so angry and isolated and frustrated and scared and they feel a little dirty by association. Remember how you felt when you first saw that Kramer stand up video where he torched his career? He went from being a lovable funnyman to weirdo racist creep? That’s what these comments are like. And so I take them down. If you don’t agree with what Kay has to say, go ahead, argue, disagree, talk it out, tear her points to little tiny shreds. Likewise Kay, go do the same. But stop with the ugly!
Great, now the adults are involved. Good job everyone.
Again with the spanking.
kay’s happy as herself in shit with the attention revolving around her
“Man, I hate doing this. In the matter of Kay vs the rest of the bitch section.”
“Webeditor”:
BAN the stupid bitch already. Start a poll “Should kay be banned?” and have the comments either “yes” or “no”. Or man up and just remove her yourself.
hahaha, man up….
Okay, wtf. If Kay is banned I will never come back to this site ever again.
no great loss there…
I gotta admit – I am curious about what the straw that broke the camels back was. I thought it wasn’t really a threat as long as no real names are used. As far as Kay being banned goes – no one is forcing anyone to respond to her comments. If no one did I think she’d go provoke people somewhere else.
moi aussi mj
We ban people for what they say. If people reported Kay every time she posted a homophobic comment or something offensive, and if we figured it was offensive, it would make a case for banning just like for anyone else. That’s all I’m saying. While on that tip — when you say ‘stupid bitch’ do mean as in member of love the way we bitch or in the stupid misogynist way I think you’re saying it?
kay wouldn’t be banned. instead she’d start her own campaign where she will “never come back again” and have a countdown for several days (leading up to her ‘quitting’). and she’ll justify it under the guise that we’re all sheep, treat her like garbage, are just jealous of her and that she’s quitting to “move onto bigger things” or that we’ve “forced her out”.
either way she’d be gone for an hour only until she came back with a new screen name or dumb-looking avatar.
oh, and when she returns she’ll have a new line to use on us here about how she calls everyone’s bluff.
just an amusing cycle.
I want Tim back.
No, I do not agree with banning anyone from this forum, unless the comments really cross the line into endorsing violence or hate.
I would rather respond to someone’s comments with agreement or disagreement, and point out where I agree or disagreee. Banning should only happen in the most extreme circumstances.
People will respond with what they really think.
If a person was using this as a forum for spouting truly extreme, harmful propaganda the readers will be quick to point it out.
I think the “community standards” of the readers who post here, as well as the Coast’s editorial/posting policy have been quite reasonable so far. If this changed, they would hear about it and I can guarantee I would go elsewhere for my web-based procrastination and entertainment.
Yeah, Ruby I agree. I mean there’s a problem with a mob starting to report a whole bunch of comments by one person just to get them banned. If I started taking people down for that, I’d have to hold everyone else up to the same standards and then a whole bunch of people would be erased. Tight now I let quite a bit of stuff go – I really don’t want to be in here all the time monitoring things – and only take down stuff that’s “really” offensive or stuff that goes beyond the LTWWB norm of just generally offensive. I rely on members to report stuff to me.
You’d never get away with half the shit (edit) people say in here on any news-related or even just a general forum, hosted by any normal site. I’d hate to see anyone banned either, but you just don’t make threatening comments… Not only is it poor taste, it’s downright creepy, and as much as I disagree with kay’s opinions, no one deserves to be threatened over her opinions.
Andy, this forum is only good if it isn’t moderated. You shouldn’t have to spend any more time on here than it takes to approve and post new bitches and delete the occasional off-side comment. People need to chill the fuck out and ignore those they don’t like or find some adult genitalia and bitch like a grown up. If you are taking an anonymous forum designed for bitching that personally, I think you’re in the wrong forum. I think we have been pretty good in the past at policing ourselves and alerting Tim of the worst offenders. I am sure we can successfully continue in the same way. If someone is inundating you with unnecessary and hateful posts to Kay, I think they are the ones who need to be deleted. Many people have a very entertaining way of telling each other off without crossing the line into creepy. That’s all part of the fun.
And!…This is what we have Miles for.
PS: No offense Andy. I think yu coo.
Miles, thank you, you said it perfectly. You are now the hall monitor. I am outta here.
Increase my killing power eh? I’ll do it!
No wait, aren’t hall monitors the ones who get wedgied with their own sashes?! Fuck that, I’m going to smoke out behind the school buses with the bad kids.
Now that I think about it, it IS kind of a funny thing that the same 15 or so people keep congregating here every day to give and receive abuse . . . and have no desire at all to stop it . . .
Miles, dude, you could be like Cartman in SP when he’s the hallway monitor. Now that’s a hallway monitor.
“Ike, you litter in my hallway, brah?”
Miles, you got a light?
Kudo’s to those who let me play here. I’m loathe to run a sock puppet on this site so, to kay haters everywhere, I sure love the way we bitch. It’s one of the best things I’ve come across unique to Nova Scotia *gag*
There.
I said it.
Have a great day, bitches.
Murder Junkie’s idea has my vote.
No one has to respond to anyone else’s comments. If what one person in particular posts gets you upset all the time…or even just most of the time, ignore them. Like you all ignore me when I rant…this place is after all a ‘bitch fest’ not a ‘whine fest’ 😉
I usually just ignore posts that are lame and don’t attribute names to posts. Are you folks new to online forums?
The term is ‘bitchers’ NOT ‘bitches’. Posts are ‘bitches’. Posters are ‘bitchers’. Got it? Bitchin’!