BOO!!
Remember when the scariest thing that could happen on Halloween was someone getting a razor blade in an apple?
Sounds like a million naive years ago, doesn't it? But there really was a time when Halloween wasn't big news. Heck, it wasn't even much of a holiday when I was growing up--not when compared to the big boys of autumn Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Don't get me wrong, we loved the costumes and candy, but you didn't get all worked up. Nobody rented a costume, and the whole thing was really just for kids.
Even when I got started in the news business in the early 1980s, Halloween news was all about parents taking their kids' candy to the hospital for the (useless) Xray, and warnings not to let your children eat fruit or unwrapped candy, et cetera.
Tonight we just ran a story about the government checking on registered sex offenders to make sure they're not giving out candy or otherwise luring youngsters to their front doors.
Halloween is supposed be all about make believe fear, but you gotta wonder whether or not there will come a time when this holiday loses what innocence it has left to some real life fear.
posted by Derek McGinty @ 6:08 PM
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I remember the razor blade scare, but even before that there had been poisoned candy.
When you talk about holidays and innocence, how it seems they lose more each year. I agree that things have changed drastically from what they once were.
It's not just holidays, our society has changed and in some ways our culture. It's not all bad, but a lot of what I feel was really good is gone. (I could post a huge rant, but nah)
Halloween is for kids and I feel intended to give them courage against the unknown; and even curiosity to seek out and uncover the mysteries of life. Also way to inspire imagination and creativity in a very social way.
It's changed but I'm sure it's still the same as always, in some parts of the country. At least I hope so.
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