Posted on 03/28/2016 8:47:47 AM PDT by smokingfrog
PEZ Candy abruptly canceled its third annual Easter egg hunt Saturday after parents stormed the field in Connecticut, according to a company news release.
Children as young as 4 were pushed aside by parents eager to grab as many of the 9,000 eggs hidden in three fields.
It was originally advertised to be three separate events, to be broken up by age groups, beginning at 10:30 a.m., before a visit from the Easter Bunny, according to the PEZ Company.
Instead of waiting for their designated time, people chose to enter the first field before anyone from PEZ starting the event, the release said.
"When it came time, at like 10:30 a.m. ET, the parents just bum-rushed that area," West Haven resident Nicole Welch told CNN affiliate WFSB. "When my son left, he had a broken basket, and he was hysterically crying."
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Connecticut is a BLUE STATE.........................
All I can picture is a bunch of dumb eggs just laying there in a field. Some ground hornets and snakes would at least be interesting.
Freegards
How many of those did you snatch from the hands of 5-year olds at Easter Egg Hunts? Shame on you!
Just kidding. :-)
The only collection I have currently resides at the bottom of the lake after that horrible boating accident.
Oh, then there’s a significant collection of well-used hand/electric tools. And even some Dept. 56 stuff.
Of course, my wife accuses me of collecting dust.
I searched but couldn’t find any actual first person videos.
Bookmark
Next year, place a few landmines instead.
Maybe all the people with phone cameras were too busy trying to get eggs. In this day and age with that many people it seems odd to have no uploads to Youtube or somewhere on the internet.
LOL
Part of the answer is to put prize numbers in the eggs, if they try again next year. Storm the field early? You get some plastic eggs with numbered tickets, nothing more.
Pez? They eject the trespassers who don’t follow the rules, put out their backup eggs for the good kids, and give prizes based on numbered tickets in the backup eggs instead of in the eggs taken by thugs swinging hammers.
All those people and not one smart phone recording the mob-like craziness. Hmmmm?
“I’ve decided next year I’m going to make a Peeps diorama based on Walking Dead.”
Please post pics then!
I collect spores, molds and fungus.
The FSA is a powerful voting block. They will trample children for some fret candy. They will vote for Bernie for free soup.
That’s different.
Multiple threads on topic already with links. Nobody reads or searches anymore.
Forget Easter egg hunts how about topic hunts?
I’m not reading FR 24 hrs a day and PEZ search only found one other.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=pez
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