A family in Columbus, Wisconsin got a scare Saturday night that’s become a too-familiar Halloween story. After trick-or-treating, the Lanzhammer family ran a magnet over their son’s candy haul. One treat stuck. They opened the Snickers bar and found a needle inside. Police confirmed the report, and no other tampering has turned up in the area.
The response was textbook: check the haul, detect something off, open it up, then call police. That’s exactly the order the authorities recommend. If you find anything suspicious in a child’s candy, don’t just throw it away. Contact your local police department so they can trace where it came from, if possible.
For families across the Suncoast, whether you’ve got little ones still in the game or grandkids who dropped off their haul at your kitchen counter, the routine is simple. Unwrap anything that can be unwrapped. Cut open soft treats. Look for torn or resealed packaging. Anything that seems wrong goes in the trash, and anything that seems genuinely dangerous gets a call to police. Halloween candy doesn’t have to be scary. A few minutes of looking keeps it that way.
Do you have a candy checking routine at your house? We want to hear how you do it.
