The “pot-laced” candy that a man from Ohio complained about was tested by police and had no traces of drugs. The razor blade in a Hershey bar had been placed there by the kid who found it. The needle in the candy bar was the handiwork of a kid looking for attention. The 16-year-old girl who said she needed 23 stitches to sew her cheek back together after chewing bubble gum with a razor blade hidden in it admitted the wound was self-inflicted.
Jesse Walker of Reason says his favorite 2015 Halloween scare hoax involves “a man named Robert Ledrew [who] told first his Facebook friends and then the police that he’d found four sewing needles in his children’s goodies. This time the parent turned out to be the hoaxer: Ledrew eventually confessed to the cops that he had inserted the objects himself, claiming he’d been trying to teach his kids a safety lesson. He certainly taught them some sort of lesson: He’s being charged with filing a false police report.
