A Melbourne woman was sitting down for the evening Sunday and grabbed a Baby Ruth bar from a bag she’d opened to make goodie bags for her daughter’s class.
When she put the candy bar in her mouth, though, she got a very unpleasant surprise.
“I’m chewing it (and) I felt something go, crunchy, crunchy sound, and I’m like, ‘Oh, what was that?’” Barbara Silk said.
It was metal.
Grateful that it wasn’t her daughter who bit into the candy, Silk grew concerned that the same type of thing could be lurking in the candy distributed to other students in the goodie bags.
“It dawned on me, maybe my child didn’t eat this, but how do I know that the other 23 kids that I gave the candy to, maybe perhaps didn’t get something like this,” she said.
She contacted the principal at Port Malabar Elementary School and asked that the other parents be alerted to the situation.
When her husband watched a story on Channel 9 about a similar incident, Silk decided to get the police involved.
“He’s, like, ‘I couldn’t believe that another family, let alone six miles from here, had the same thing happen to them,’” she said.
She was referring to a Palm Bay family who contacted police after finding metal pins in candy given to their children while they were trick-or-treating.
Melbourne police were investigating Silk’s discovery, and she hoped that it was just an accident of some kind.
“I don’t want to believe that someone would intentionally put this in candy that could potentially harm someone, especially children,” Silk said.
None of the other students given candy from the bag in question reported finding anything out of the ordinary, investigators said.
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