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800px-Candyappels.jpeg (137.31KB, 800x600) Poisoned candy myths are urban legends about malevolent strangers intentionally hiding poisons, drugs, or sharp objects such as razor blades, needles, or broken glass in candy and distributing the candy in order to harm random children, especially during Halloween trick-or-treating. These stories serve as modern cautionary tales to children and parents and repeat two themes that are common in urban legends: danger to children and contamination of food.

No cases of strangers killing or permanently injuring children this way have been proven. ~~Wikipedia-Man 2023-06-05(Mon)16:49:52 No.178
1494008035700.jpg (46.69KB, 480x320) Has it really never happened? It sounds very easy to do, and there are a lot of crazy people around willing to hurt children for a laugh. Or are there? The world is actually not the worst it could be? ~~cidoku ## Admin 2023-06-05(Mon)17:44:50 No.179
800px-Homicide_in_the_United_States.svg.png (52.50KB, 800x597) Ever heard of 'Mean World Syndrome'?
It's a proposed cognitive bias wherein people may perceive the world to be more dangerous than it actually is, due to long-term moderate to heavy exposure to violence-related content in mass media.

For example homicide rates have dropped to near 1950s levels,and things like rape have always been relatively rare, but people still talk about being afraid to go out at night, and such-like.

(Actually, there is a theory that crime rates only increased in the '60s-80s simply because the baby boomer generation, the biggest cohort until then simply reached the 'crime-committing age'.) ~~Anonymous 2023-06-06(Tue)02:08:22 No.180