According to the article, "'not one toddler hunting for eggs' among the crowds of adults."
I once took my nephew to an Easter egg hunt when he was about 3 years old. It was awful. He got flattened. Parents were pigs, children little monsters.
Overuse of smart phones is making people stupid. It’s the selfie-generation run amok in the real world.
Too bad nobody got video of an adult knocking down a 4 year old. Such adults belong in prison.
Didnt anyone think of macing the little monsters?
What was in the eggs that the adults wanted them so badly? Money?
Free events tend to attract sons and daughters of Obama in large numbers.
Sadly, this is what America has become, anything to outdo, out grab or out steal the other guy is the rule now. What the hell happened to this once proud nation? If I were the City Council of that city I would CANCEL it for good.
Wait’ll the lights go out and the EBT cards stop scanning...
Son and DIL had quite the opposite experience. They got to the egg hunt late, and the egg hunt for the youngest kids was over. The organizers told son and dil that their 2 year old could hunt with the older kids. There was about a dozen eggs in one area and all the older kids backed off so 2year old granddaughter could get those. Granddaughter was so excited, she kept shaking her basket and the eggs kept popping out!
New York City values.
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.
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.
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.
Explains why today’s children are spoiled demanding brats.
What a lovely BLUE state.