Posted on 03/28/2018 8:28:17 PM PDT by Trillian
The Mohave Valley Community Park Egg Drop in Arizona was supposed to be cute and endearing: a family Easter egg hunt capped off with candy raining from the sky for kids to collect. Instead, it turned into a genuine health scare, and not just because too many Peeps can make a kid constipated.
No, it was because the candy was found to be potentially laced with herbicides. How did this happen, you ask? The low-flying plane used to drop the candy is regularly a crop duster, meaning that all of those literal plant-killing toxins were also covering the supposedly edible candy.
"Anyone who touched the eggs should wash their hands thoroughly and [...] remove and wash your clothing," Mohave County Department of Public Health said in a statement. "If you have come in contact with the eggs or candy and experience, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive sweating or urination you should seek medical assistance immediately."
Luckily, there haven't been any reports of illness directly related to this egregious mistake as of now. With that said, the fact that someone ever thought that repurposing a crop duster as an Easter egg-mobile is seriously concerning.
Imagine if your sweet, innocent 5-year-old got sick after eating a Reese's peanut butter egg because their hands were coated in Glyphosate from the wrapper. I can't think of anything more difficult for a parent than explaining to little Timmy how the Easter bunny didn't mean to poison him.
Pro tip: if you think it's a good idea to use a crop duster for your Easter egg hunt, please reconsider.
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Re: Your #3
Thanx for the laugh.
LOL, at least the turkeys (If they weren’t already dead, defeathered and frozen Butterballs!) had a fighting chance when thrown out of the plane!
Love this country, that there could even be an event where turkeys were thrown from a plane as part of a local custom!
The only thing that would have made it better was shotgun bearing guys firing wildly into the air at the falling, flapping turkeys! (and yes, Turkeys CAN fly!)
I don’t know why, but that whole thing just completely hit the irreverent side of my funny bone!
(This thing is regrettable, but good God, I think Hildy is right here!)
That was pretty funny! Never watched it before...:)
The “Daily Break” looking for click bait.
Who and why are these people trying to kill our children with poison candy from the sky !??!!
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