This Bucket Is Horrible

i can definitely see a parent buying this for their kids and throwing out every single piece of candy because the ring on their finger is setting it off

The "drugs in candy" myth is definitely my favorite one of these. Imagine, you're dealing in illicit substances, potent expensive shit, and you decide that the best market to open up for these is literal children with no financial power of their own and zero odds of being repeat clients. I'm sure Bobby, age 5, will be more than happy to steal his mom's credit card for another smack at them doped-up milk duds.

"We've all heard the horror stories." chooses the most upbeat and light hearted music to play in the background

I love Charlies vids because one could be exposing an actual sex criminal and then the next is just "fuck this bucket"

If this was the main candy bucket your kid is carrying, and IF it actually ever went off, they're now staring face-to-face with someone who just gave them something dangerous. That seems...dangerous.

‘This is a bucket.’
‘Dear god.’
‘It’s horrible.’
‘No.’

Dude with a friend in the candy industry here. Normally when someone finds a “razor blade” in their candy 9 times out of 10 it’s actually a metal shard that has broken off of a conveyor. This can happen with lots of stuff from canned goods to soft drinks though safety standards for that kind of contamination has become so good that it’s exceedingly rare (bugs on the other hand while still rare are more common). If you by chance do find a metal/wood/glass shard in a prepackaged consumable contact the company immediately along with any information on the batch if you can find it on the packaging. If they’re worth their salt they will immediately shut down that line until the problem is solved. It’s also considered good practice to send thanks in some form, normally via a coupon or in some cases an entire box of whatever you bought and/or similar goods (from a different batch/line of course.)

Edit: ancient comment I know but for the people talking about that Johnny Test episode, that’s actually based on a real trend from the 90’s to the early 2000’s where a LOT of people were faking damaged or contaminated goods to game the system and get free stuff. Of course it’s always happened before and since but for a while the behavior was so rampant that it made the national news.

The promise of drug laced candy had me trick or treating well into my teens. Between Halloween and the D.A.R.E. program I was under the impression I was going to encounter a lot more people trying to get me high.

it’s funny how something like “checking your children’s candy” started as a joke for parents to eat candy, but has transformed into something that is a genuine fear for some 😂

the 'poisoned candy' thing I believe got more mainstream after the Rondal O'Bryan case in 70's. Where Ronald's son died after eating cynide laced pixie sticks and Rondal claimed it was given to them by a mysterious man in one of the houses they've been at, and the police went into high gear and for days it was publicized that someone gave kids poisoned candy(four sticks were poisoned) and then it turned out that Ronald did it himself for insurance money he took on his two kids, and the other two pixie sticks he gave out were just a smoke screen to divert suspicion from him...bc if only his kids got the tampered candy then he'd be imidietly looked into into. So yeah, it was all just one shitty, greedy parent trying to off his own children and get away with it.

6:01 If you wanted to identify the candy you could just take everything out and put it back in one by one to find the one that has it. The more confusing this is what a kid is supposed to do when Boo tells them the person infront of them wants to kill them

this has actually happened twice in my area (to my knowledge) Once it was homemade popcorn balls with metal bits in them and then 5-10 years later someone pushed sewing needles into mars bars. Both of the guys were arrested and were 80+ year old men.

I think Charlie is secretly in love with bad start-ups at this point..

Also, I feel like if you were THAT bought into the “razor blades in candy” myth, it would be infinitely easier to just buy a handheld metal detector and running it over the candy before allowing the kid to eat it.

I think another thing people aren’t aware of is the fact if you as a parent might be wearing a ring or something metallic in your halloween costume could easily trigger a false positive, making you search through a whole bowl of candy for nothing.

The bucket itself is actually pretty cute. If he would've made it just light up as opposed to detect metal, he could've slapped a $10 price tag on it & banked. Not to mention he wouldn't be being made fun of on the internet for his crafty little bucket. Win win

Nothing could have prepared me for the sound it makes

We were talking about this in my socio class and for the case that happened in the 50’s, it was concluded that it was actually the parent who contaminated their children’s candy and was less of a “they’re poisoning our kids candy!” And more of a specific child abuse situation. The headlines were indeed fear mongering because the topic of child abuse began to rise and they realized that children were getting hurt but using media to highlight the wrong causes. Instead of realizing, “hey, parents are hurting their children”, they blame it on the candy

Bless his heart I genuinely feel like he meant well

I love that he chose a honk for the sound, the standard sound for all warnings