COVID Candy Pipe

Very cool, Don.

There haven't been any trick or treaters in my neighborhood for the past few years, a sharp drop off from years past. This year there were 2, followed by a huge writhing mass of little kids and their parents. Some kids accepted the crayons I offered, some didn't. You never can tell.

But mom, the hippie lady down the street assured me they were organic, gluten free, contain no nuts, and tested negative for Fentanyl.

Chuckled musing about all the things that zoners thought that this thread was about ....<<<<

ha ha, I was envisioning some form of content that alluded to a pipe to smoke something out of and an unusual context that amounted to a "petri dish" for covid

I like it though!  Reminds me - in an inverted way - of being in 2nd grade and constructing a "chute" attached to my desk for Valentine's Day cards to be delivered.   We all kind of made our own versions such receptacles.

I got zero trick or treaters ... not sure what happened, normally there's at least 1-2 dozen

4 little monsters, 400% increase over last year.

just 5 small groups, we used to have swarms --- my wife is bummed because apparently all the kids in the neighborhood grew up.

I'm happy because we have leftover candy.

Next year, maybe crayons -- I like the idea -- but it may be giving the little devils ammunition to graffiti the house or sidewalk if they are mad because there is no candy. It might be like handing out raw eggs. I gotta think about that.

I have handed out stickers, colored pencils and now crayons. Stickers are most exciting for kids of all ages, the colored pencils were almost as good but I'm out of them now so I've moved on to Crayons. 
I did hear that there was a candy bar with a razor blade in it given out in the Friendly neighborhood. Oh yeah, real friendly. It goes against my nature to believe that it was real and true. I did see photos on a friend's Facebook, but I just kind of have my doubts

In 1970, Kevin Toston, a 5-year-old boy from the Detroit area, died after finding and eating his uncle's heroin. The family attempted to protect the uncle by claiming the drug had been sprinkled in the child's Halloween candy.[14]

In a 1974 case, an 8-year-old boy in Deer Park, Texas, died after eating a cyanide-laced package of Pixy Stix. A subsequent police investigation eventually determined that the poisoned candy had been planted in his trick-or-treat pile by the boy's father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who also gave out poisoned candy to other children in an attempt to cover up the murder, though no other children consumed the poisoned treats. The murderer, who had wanted to claim life insurance money, was executed in 1984.[7] In this case, the distribution of poisoned candy is true, but this was a targeted murder, rather than the random or indiscriminate murder from the myth.

In 1978, Patrick Wiederhold, a two-year-old boy from Flint, Michigan died after eating Halloween candy. However, toxicology tests found no evidence of poison, and his death was determined to be due to natural causes.[15]

In 1990, Ariel Katz, a seven-year-old girl in Santa Monica, California, died while trick-or-treating. Early press reports blamed poisoned candy, despite her parents telling the police that she had previously been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, an enlarged heart, which was the actual cause of death.[15]

In 2001, a four-year-old girl in Vancouver, British Columbia died after eating some Halloween candy. However, there was no evidence of poisoned candy, and she actually died of a streptococcus infection.[15]