How fast do those things move? 3 - 4 miles an hour. I would probably hold onto my kids hands as well. Most parades I've seen the candy is thrown by the people walking, not by the ones on the floats. but whatever, it's just another thing we can't do because someone MIGHT get hurt and might sue. Oooops, did I just get cynical there?

Hey, pebble throwing killed Goliath so...

And then there's the whole educational thing; are we teaching our kids to throw their food?!

By the way, did anyone ever notice that those people on *moving* floats aren't even safety-attached?!! Hmmm, I feel a letter to the mayor coming up...

How many times has someone been injured by flying candy? Maybe by jumping over someone for a tootsie roll or pushing to get that all important candy cane , but not by the candy hitting you when thrown. I agree with eljay, and the lawyers would be all over it if it happened.

Here is another perfect example of how we've taken the responsibility of raising children off of parents and on to the rest of the world. If you are not paying attention to your child and the little crumb-cruncher runs out in the street during a moving parade, YOU are responsible for that.
It is not up to the entirety of the community you live in to work around your "special needs" as a bad parent.
Ugh! You should have to take a damn test to be able to reproduce. Being smart/worthy enough to find a mate USED to be a built-in test, but drugs and alcohol have now rendered that failsafe useless.

You mean when I'm throwing or just in general?

A 9-year-old boy in Florida died a few days ago when his foot got caught in the wheels of a float, and he was dragged under. He was walking alongside, passing out candy.

Oh my! Here it is.

Freak things happen. It is very sad about the boy that died. But let's hope that all the fun things about being a kid won't be taken away. I remember a rope along the parade route that would mean "no one past this point". I am pretty sure Disneyland used to do that too. So if the candy was on the other side of the rope, oh well, to bad, so sad, better luck next time.

I was at Christmas parade last year. The boys on the parade floats were throwing candy at the kids I was with. They threw candy so hard that my watch got smashed. You would like to think that there are no dangers but there are.