How we missed this headline last week I will never know.

The Spokesman Review's

wrote the cautionary tale about dipping into the Halloween candy three weeks early.

Violet Bishop, 87, of Coeur d’Alene was tucked into bed with a box of Milk Duds, ready to watch “Dancing With the Stars,” when something went horribly wrong. In her words:

Seriously,

I am not making this up

.

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-- Kimberly A.C. Wilson