One of the things I was going to do with this blog was post questions I get from my Comments Page in hopes of increasing the chance of getting the questions answered. I kept forgetting to do this, but finally remembered to add this one. (more…)
Did a little updating today. Updated the Comments section, and the Coming Soon section. Head to the Main Page to see.
I have a good amount of new wrappers to add, just don’t have the time right now.
I’m a little hazy on the facts, but apparently two men have been arrested for their part in a summer bank robbery after law enforcement found a DNA match on a chewed piece of candy, according to the Winston-Salem Journal in Virginia. First off, who chews a piece of candy and doesn’t swallow it? I guess that’s what I’m a little foggy on. Did one of them start eating it and then spit it out? I don’t know. (more…)
An Arizona lawyer was arrested because he gave his client a piece of candy in court. Seems the lawyer asked two detention officers if it was OK that he give his shackled client a piece of candy. He was warned not to, but did it anyway, telling them “what are you going to do, arrest me?” And apparently the answer to that question would be yes. (more…)
When I was growing up, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, you sold candy bars from school because your class wanted to do something…a trip somewhere or a day of roller staking or something. That’s kinda changed now to the point where selling candy bars (and other stuff) is used as a general fundraiser for just about anything. But in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, it’s gone one step further. Students of the Pardee Elementary School can pay for their lunches by selling candy bars. (more…)
I never knew candy was such a magnet for criminal activity until I started this blog. Oh sure, when we were kids there was a good chance of us trying to steal the occasional piece of candy. But these are adults! Maybe I should add a category on the blog for “Crimes”. Anyway, I got yet another story of crime involving candy, this one from Liberty Township, Ohio. (more…)