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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awesome!
Third and LAST.
“This is why we can’t have nice things.”
Well at least nobody there belted out “Volare”. ;)
Sorry I went to that link! Did you read the other headlines going on in Connecticut?
OMG! Sounds like some third-world nation, the barbarity!
I thought Connecticut was supposed to be so proper and educated!
Wow, sorry I went there.
The prize was $50 gift certificate to a sporting goods store. It was embarrassing to watch parents grabbing eggs from the ground trying to stuff their kids baskets.
I suggested to my wife: I wondered how people might react if they were confronted with a real crisis such as no food or water or electricity to heat their homes. I am glad that I can defend myself and my family thanks to the 2nd amendment because it is very clear that people can quickly turn into animals.
So the grass is long enough to actually hide them?
Freegards
Gimmedats cross racial barriers.
I’ve decided next year I’m going to make a Peeps diorama based on Walking Dead.
Yes. It really makes you wonder.
When white parents go wild!
Funny story. Joke on Twinkie. - When I was in 1st Grade,
we had an Easter egg hunt. - Well, the teacher told us,
“Now, children, DO NOT get anyone else’s eggs but your own!”
Well, I had brought a bunch of brightly colored boiled
eggs. I thought, “Now, how in the world am I gonna be able
to tell the difference between MY eggs & everyone elses?”
Well, we scattered out over the playground. I saw an egg
under the water fountain; but I couldn’t tell whether it
was “mine” or not. . and on, and on it went. Hunt ended
& my basket was EMPTY. DUH!! :o)
That probably occurred in a “blue” precinct.
Depends on where you are in Connecticut. It's generally a very wealthy and educated state but there are pockets in urban areas that are like third world countries. I've been living here over a year now and I've never seen such a disparity. One minute you can be driving by multi-million dollar mansions, the next minute you are in a slum with the requisite check-cashing joints, pawn shops and hole in the walls peddling hooch liquor.
The area that surrounds the Pez headquarters in Orange (actually a very nice town) includes Bridgeport and New Haven which consist of some of the poorest and run-down areas in the state. I think those people were represented heavily at that Easter egg hunt.
If the grass hasn’t been cut recently, then yes, it would be high enough to hide the eggs.
Selfishness.
Is there actual video of the event. Seems strange that I haven’t seen any video of the mayhem.
In a lot of Easter egg hunts there is one special egg, let's call it the "golden" egg, that pays off a nice prize or cash for whoever finds it. I wonder if that was the case at this Pez hunt? If not, then that makes this fiasco even more disgusting - They were fighting over pretty much nothing.
Same here with my daughter, now 29, when she was about 9 or 10. Walmart had a Easter Egg hunt in a nearby field and it turned into chaos...................................
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