Happy Easter

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Marauding parents in Easter Egg hunt rampage: Out-of-control adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four-year-old 'bloody' at chaotic free event An Easter egg hunt descended into chaos on Saturday after parents in Orange, Connecticut, stormed the field.

Children as young as four were trampled by adults in a rampage to steal buckets and grab as many of the 9,000 hidden eggs as possible from the third annual free event at the PEZ headquarters.

One four-year-old son was left 'bloody' on the sports field and a two-year-old girl was shoved into the mud, witnesses claimed.

A horrified parent described the scene as 'an angry mob of chaos' with 'not one toddler hunting for eggs' among the crowds of adults.

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I live in the town next door bad enough it was on TV locally nit made world news   What is wrong with people?  This is why I have always avoided these things and hate crowds.

[Gopher Gary]

[Icequeen]

WTF was in the eggs?

Some geniuses didn't stuff them with money did they??

I'm not surprised thought.

If you want entertained just go to a school football game or a play and watch the parents. 
...and people wonder how some kids are so fucked up.

[odeon]

There was a brawl between the dads of several kids after a screening of Kung Fu Panda at the local multiplex.

["couldbecousin"]

  I remember when Cabbage Patch Kids were the big new thing, back in the 80s. The first Christmas they were
  available, I heard stories of supposed adults assaulting each other in stores to get this present for their
  little darlings at home (or, perhaps more likely, to get a possibly-valuable collectible for themselves). 

["couldbecousin"]

WTF was in the eggs?

Some geniuses didn't stuff them with money did they??

  Perhaps the eggs were filled with what Jesse Pinkman would call  "cherry product."

[Natalia Evans]

Jesus, over Easter Eggs. People. 

Good thing we do our own.

[WolFish]

WTF was in the eggs?

Some geniuses didn't stuff them with money did they??

I'm not surprised thought.

If you want entertained just go to a school football game or a play and watch the parents. 
...and people wonder how some kids are so fucked up.

My guess is Pez candy and coupons for Pez dispensers, which are highly collectible. Like CBC said. It was likely that regardless of the truth, people believed that something valuable was in the eggs, and like she said, they cared less about what they children got and more for what might be of value to them. Had it been chocolate, jelly beans and peeps, my guess is the kids would have had the field.

If they do it next year it should all be scrip and no one over the age of 12 allowed on the field. Parents behind a fence. And like department store sales, security and people on hand for crowd control. If people had to present a ticket to get in, they could have controlled the number of nuts who showed up. Allowing only a certain number of eggs to be redeemed would stop people grabbing things from four year olds. Building a secure fence (parts can do it with barbed wire) will cost less than defending themselves against the lawsuits that are likely to follow.

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WTF was in the eggs?

Some geniuses didn't stuff them with money did they??

I'm not surprised thought.

If you want entertained just go to a school football game or a play and watch the parents. 
...and people wonder how some kids are so fucked up.

My guess is Pez candy and coupons for Pez dispensers, which are highly collectible. Like CBC said. It was likely that regardless of the truth, people believed that something valuable was in the eggs, and like she said, they cared less about what they children got and more for what might be of value to them. Had it been chocolate, jelly beans and peeps, my guess is the kids would have had the field.

If they do it next year it should all be scrip and no one over the age of 12 allowed on the field. Parents behind a fence. And like department store sales, security and people on hand for crowd control. If people had to present a ticket to get in, they could have controlled the number of nuts who showed up. Allowing only a certain number of eggs to be redeemed would stop people grabbing things from four year olds. Building a secure fence (parts can do it with barbed wire) will cost less than defending themselves against the lawsuits that are likely to follow.

I'll electrify it also    Another local company canceled their egg hunt that day as soon as they saw the news reports and Pez said they would hire cops for security if they ever do it again which I doubt they will.  It looked pretty wild

["couldbecousin"]

  He is Risen, people are assholes, Alleluia!