Sometimes Halloween pranks end in death even if the prankster didn't intend it. At a Halloween Party in Granville, New York in 2009, a woman wanted to "play a prank" on her co-worker after a work place dispute. She spiked the Halloween punch bowl with Visine eye drops. She claimed she got the idea from a TV show and just wanted to make her co-worker sick. Her victim collapsed almost immediately after drinking the punch and later died.
An unrelated interesting thing is that the word bonfire comes from the phrase "Bone Fire." It is hypothesized that "bone fires" started in Denmark when the bodies of the losing side of a conflict would be piled up and burned in celebration by the victors. Or the word might be named after Edward Bonner, the Bishop of London in Tudor times. In 1555, on his orders over 300 English men and women were burned at the stake for their faith and the fires became known as Bon’s fires as a result.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2023-10-31 05:15 am (UTC)Sometimes Halloween pranks end in death even if the prankster didn't intend it. At a Halloween Party in Granville, New York in 2009, a woman wanted to "play a prank" on her co-worker after a work place dispute. She spiked the Halloween punch bowl with Visine eye drops. She claimed she got the idea from a TV show and just wanted to make her co-worker sick. Her victim collapsed almost immediately after drinking the punch and later died.
Source.
An unrelated interesting thing is that the word bonfire comes from the phrase "Bone Fire." It is hypothesized that "bone fires" started in Denmark when the bodies of the losing side of a conflict would be piled up and burned in celebration by the victors. Or the word might be named after Edward Bonner, the Bishop of London in Tudor times. In 1555, on his orders over 300 English men and women were burned at the stake for their faith and the fires became known as Bon’s fires as a result.