Marauding parents in Easter Egg hunt rampage: Out of control adults push children to the ground

Daily Mail ^ | 27 March 2016 | Mia De Graaf

[detective]

Title shortened.

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.

[samtheman]

You blame behavior on devices? Sounds like gun-grabber logic to me.

[elcid1970]

Sounds like a typical Chuck E Cheez birthday party.

[Resolute Conservative]

I grab one out of the safe every chance I get.

[miss marmelstein]

Probably.

[Washi]

I've seen it countless times before.

When you offer something for free, there's a certain class of people that think they're entitled to that thing and will get violent, if necessary, to exercise their "entitlement".

It's the free-$h!+ army.

Free-cycle; black-Friday; food-stamps; Craigslist "curb-alerts", you name it.

We hosted a Free-cycle yard sale once. Advertised that it started at 8:00 A.M., no early birds. We had to ask several people to leave our property that drove around our barriers at 7:00 A.M. to try to get first pick. We also asked that people limit themselves to 1 of certain larger items. Had a family of 4 each grab a bicycle and run them back to their van and drive off.

Never again.

[Gumdrop]

Sounds ridiculous that parents were even allowed on the field. If children cannot go and pick up the eggs by themselves, they should not be at the Easter egg hunt. Perhaps they should be at least 3 years old.

I think many EEH’s now have age-specific grouping. Even then, the older kids tend to get greedy and grab as many as they can. It’s human nature.

[SamAdams76]

This occurred not too far from where I live. Orange is actually a nice quiet town with decent hard-working people. What evidently happened here is that the "free event" brought in the rabble from surrounding low-rent towns like New Haven, Bridgeport and Milford. Obama country. The photos I saw of some of the parents in local newspapers bear that out - those were sketchy looking people. Of course they had that self important, entitled "hands-on-the-hips" outraged parent pose about them. These were not Orange residents! These were people that don't work and don't contribute to society in any meaningful way.

This was a event sponsored by Pez Corporation, which has their headquarters in Orange. I trust this will be the last such "free event" that Pez will ever sponsor. Unfortunately there are many people out there who just can't have nice things.

I raised two kids and we never went to a public "Easter Egg hunt." My wife and I would do our own for the kids in our own backyard or in our house if it was raining or too cold to be outside. It just doesn't seem like it would be a fun thing to drag our kids out on Easter weekend to clutch and grab with a bunch of strangers. Just seems uncouth to me.

[I want the USA back]

Explains why today’s children are spoiled demanding brats.

[goodnesswins]

Yes...what you said....if they’ll do this to kids for Easter goodies, imagine what they’ll do when their food runs out

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[the_doc]

What a lovely BLUE state.