Dangerous Minds Ann' title='Dangerous Minds Ann' />So Long, Mary Ann. Review of The Transferred Life of George Eliot By Philip Davis. Previously on Dangerous Minds Tom Waits to Rickie Lee Jones Rickie, just keep your goddamn feet outta my lap 1979 A man with a banana in his ear does not. WWv1s71q1zo1_1280.png' alt='Dangerous Minds Ann' title='Dangerous Minds Ann' />Is Trick or Treating Dangerous Halloween Safety. Tom Stewart Corbis. Halloween strikes fear into parents hearts for reasons that have nothing to do with scary costumes. Hospitals have been offering to X ray candy for decades, and this year a forensic lab in Du. Page County, outside Chicago, will inspect suspicious sweets using technology thats usually reserved for homicide, sexual assault and burglary. Sony Bravia Tv Remote Codes. Health officials are warning against letting kids scoop up candy with their germy hands, lest they spread H1. N1 flu to other revelers. In Bobtown, Pa., spooked officials have banned trick or treating altogether. But is trick or treating really dangerous The most persistent Halloween bogeyman is tainted candy from strangers. The parental panic may stem from around 1. D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2/6684/%D0%9E%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B8-14.jpg' alt='Dangerous Minds Ann' title='Dangerous Minds Ann' />The horror story refuses to die down. In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy, Ann Landers wrote in 1. See the top 2. 5 horror movies of all time. But were the reports true For all the anecdotal evidence, the notion that psychotic strangers pose a danger to children has been repeatedly debunked. Only two children are known to have been killed by poisoned Halloween loot. In both cases, the perpetrators were family members who tried to exploit the trick or treating urban legend to throw police off their trail. Plenty of parents call poison centers to report concerns related to Halloween, says Gail Banach, director of education at the Upstate New York Poison Center in Syracuse, but overall complaints dont spike. And other experts agree that the concern is overblown. In 1. 98. 5, Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, studied media reports going back to 1. Most of the 1. 00 or so cases of alleged poisoning over the past 5. You cant prove a negative. You cant prove that its never, ever happened, Best says. But if it was happening, it would make the news. See the top 1. Halloween costumes. So is there any likely candy borne danger Well, yes eating your way to a bellyache. Dr. Tony Woodward, chief of emergency medicine at Seattle Childrens Hospital, expects to see a few of those cases in any given year. When they have a ton of candy in front of them, theyre going to eat it, he says. Experts recommend filling kids up with snacks or dinner before sending them out so theyll be less tempted to nosh on sweets. See pictures of pets in Halloween costumes. But even though candy doesnt pose much of a threat, trick or treating does carry safety hazards. Tous Le Matins. According to the American College of Emergency Physicians, common Halloween injuries include eye wounds from sharp objects and burns from flammable costumes. Dangerous Minds Annie Potts' title='Dangerous Minds Annie Potts' />The Poison Centers Banach notes that kids can have allergic reactions to face paint or makeup. We always recommend that if youre using that kind of product, you test it out on a patch of skin before you put it all over your child to be the Incredible Hulk, she says. Read Paranormal Activity A Horror Phenomenon. But the biggest Halloween danger of all is car accidents. Children are more than twice as likely to be killed by a car while walking on Halloween night than at any other time of the year, according to a study by Safe Kids USA. Such tragedies are often preventable. Parents can make sure that costumes arent too long, shoes dont make a child prone to tripping and masks dont restrict their vision. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 Trial. And parents of young children should accompany them on the walk around the neighborhood to keep them safe. A lot of kids dont know the right way to cross the street because theyre not walking anywhere on a regular basis, says Nichole Hodges, home safety coordinator for the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. This may be a good time to provide that education as parents. Ultimately, getting a childs candy X rayed cant hurt as long as parents arent too preoccupied with overblown threats to watch out for real ones. We do want to check the candy, says Hodges. At the same time, we have to focus our energies on how kids are actually getting hurt. See the best vampire movies of all time on Rotten Tomatoes. See pictures of werewolves in the movies.