Posted on 04/07/2023 9:57:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
n An Easter egg hunt for kids at an Ohio Mall did not go as planned.
The Green Town Center in Beavercreek, Ohio posted a since-deleted apology to Facebook to parents for the crowd-control fiasco at their Easter-egg hunt.
And by crowd control, they mean they could not stop a bunch of adults from swarming the children and grabbing all the eggs.
Our staff dedicated 2 months to preparing for this event, and we had 10 staff members and a softball team of 12 girls volunteer their time yesterday to help run our event everyone was very upset with the outcome of the Egg Hunt, and the way they were treated by community members at the conclusion of the event. We feel that we owe an explanation for the events that took place, and while we are not trying to point fingers or place the blame elsewhere, we want to make everyone aware of the situation. From around 12:30 - 2:00 PM, we began instructing participants on how the event would work - 1 & 2 year olds get to start first in a designated area (the concrete area by the fountains), where they had eggs laid out specifically for them, then 3 & 4 year olds would get 60 seconds with a parent to get a head start, and following that, the hunt would begin for everyone else.
We were unfortunately bombarded with participants that would not follow instructions, and when we began to gather the 1 & 2 year olds to head to their designated hunting area, parents rushed to the grassy area and began picking up eggs from other areas, which prompted all other participants to rush out and begin hunting. This is not at all how we had planned for the event to go, and we are so upset with the outcome and the reactions from participants.
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"Adults were not permitted to pick up eggs, yet we saw so many doing so, which resulted in some children leaving empty handed. We had over 2,000 eggs hidden, with 100 prizes to give away, and it is a shame that so many still left disappointed. We saw grown adults pushing children out of the way, and people getting knocked over."
Maybe they got confused and thought they were real eggs instead of the little plastic ones?
I mean 2,000 eggs at today's prices is quite a haul!
Seriously though, can you imagine adults acting like this over a children's Easter egg hunt?
It's disgraceful!
Unfortunately for the community, Greene Town Center said they won't be doing an Easter egg hunt again.
"We feel the community will be better without the hunt," Greene assistant manager Jessica Baer said.
This is why we can't have nice things, people.
I remember the parents at the Little League games when I played as a kid.
Our town does seperate srctions of the park by age group and each section and the sections are proctered by cops and firemen which tamps down on the stupid. Parents only allowed in the under 4 sections.
There is an adult section that has one “money” egg that is always hidden up in a tree. So the adults with greed issues are always looking up. Works like a charm.
As my kids got older they started giving their eggs away to younger kids, till one year they announced they were too old to be doing this uncool stuff.
I was at a minor league baseball game last summer with two friends and their 5-8 year-old children.
They had a T-shirt toss, and I was waving to some of the staff to direct their t-shirts in our direction. I noticed two women scowling at me.
Some T-shirts finally came our direction, and I blocked the isle so the kids get to them. They were ecstatic, as only young kids can be
One of the women later came up to me and apologized - “I thought YOU were going to grab those shirts from the children”
Tell me is wasn’t Gen Zeros, Millennials and Gen X folks at work.
Who else would have kids that age?.............
I bet I can guess why.
There was the occasional cut finger but a band-aid or two and you were back designing your kite for the next battle.
Now adults have moved into the arena and people are actually getting killed.
Kid games should be left to kids.
They should have buried the eggs.
Yes believe it or not it was twenty years ago i had no video or camera with me.
Many on this thread seem to imply a certain race does this excessively but I’ll just say it was not that certain race in my case. In their defense!
I don’t believe behavior is genetic anyway. Its mostly cultural. And of course your own responsibility as an adult to think, is this aspect of my culture ok?
The frantic grabbing of candy and “helping” your kids so they “win” is ghastly.
I did a TDY in Williamsburg VA in 1987, when my daughter was four (and cute as a button). We were staying in a middle class condominium complex, the kind of place back home in New England where everyone would be doing Trick or Treat. Only one or two (I forget the exact number) even answered the door. One of the people who answered said, something to the effect, “Y’all must be from New England. We don’t do Trick or Treat around here.” If people in Williamsburg did trick or treat, they would be flooded with mobs from Newport News. I recall that on a home visit, I noticed that all the workers at a local McDonalds were white. Every one of them. I rarely, if ever, saw a white person working in a fast food joint in Virginia.
Amish?
Why I hate Easter egg hunts.
Eggxactly 🙄
Me too. My little girl was so sad that adults treated her like that. I wonder if she remembers.. she’s 52 now.
No video ?
I’ve been in a couple meetings where things are organized for “the kiddos.”
As long as it’s a well-defined group in a private space (pre-school children of employees, for example) things go well. Anything for “the public”—and especially for kids—pretty much requires accounting for the worst in human nature. Plan as if _no one_ will “be cool.”
It goes much further back, I’m certain, but the rioting over Cabbage Patch Kids in the 80’s told me that where adults and their kids are in conflict over any scarce commodity, it’s no-holds-barred.
Re: 18 - Yeah, nothing gets my goat more than adults who push kids out of the way to get a foul ball. I had a foul ball hit right to me, caught it and gave it to a kid the next section over. If I want a baseball bad enough I can buy one.
The price of eggs is making people CRAZY!! 🤓
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