The winners and the losers

• Winner: Thanks to hard work from a number of local and national agencies, including credit card companies, at least 155 Web sites dedicated to child pornography are now out of business. They no longer have a way to accept payments. That's what the state's attorney general reported this week. It's good news, indeed, considering few crimes are as insidious as child pornography and the abuses that surround it.

• Loser: Somehow, a vial containing cocaine residue found its way into the Halloween bag of a child at a neighborhood trunk-or-treat gathering in Lehi on Monday. Most likely it was an accident. Some absent-minded drug addict thought he or she was reaching for the candy stash and came up with a different sort of stash. Luckily, no one tried to ingest the substance.

The lessons from this? First, trunk-or-treating isn't necessarily safer than traditional trick-or-treating. Second, never take for granted the type of people in your midst.