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The Mohave Valley Community Park Egg Drop in Arizona was supposed to be cute and endearing: a family Easter egg hunt capped off with candy raining from the sky for kids to collect. Instead, it turned into a genuine health scare, and not just because too many Peeps can make a kid constipated. No, it was because the candy was found to be potentially laced with herbicides. How did this happen, you ask? The low-flying plane used to drop the candy is regularly a crop duster, meaning that all of those literal plant-killing toxins were also covering the supposedly edible...

A fight over a golden egg during an Easter egg hunt landed one Memphis mother in jail after she allegedly attacked another parent with a hammer. . . . It was a family Easter egg hunt that turned into a free for all melee. Cirby Pearson's mother Annette is locked up at 201 Poplar and charged with aggravated assault after she was accused of hitting a man in the head with a claw hammer. "He started cursing her out," said Cirby Pearson. "She started cursing him back. He done hauled off and smacked her. So she had, she went in...

Marauding parents in Easter Egg hunt rampage: Out-of-control adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four-year-old 'bloody' at chaotic free event Children were trampled as 1,000 people stormed the PEZ center field 9,000 eggs were laid out on three different age-bracketed sections But when the egg hunt started, 'parents stormed the field stealing eggs' One four-year-old was left 'bloody', many toddlers 'pushed into the mud'

Marauding parents in Easter Egg hunt rampage: Out-of-control adults push children to the ground, steal their buckets and leave one four-year-old 'bloody' at chaotic free event Children were trampled as 1,000 people stormed the PEZ center field 9,000 eggs were laid out on three different age-bracketed sections But when the egg hunt started, 'parents stormed the field stealing eggs' One four-year-old was left 'bloody', many toddlers 'pushed into the mud' [snip] A PEZ official confirmed the meltdown. 'We started talking to people and say "hey this is supposed to start at certain time. That lasted about a minute and everyone...

One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood — the Easter egg hunt — turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. Blame the moms. A statement on the Seattle Police Department blotter Monday says the "hard-boiled tale" began Sunday afternoon, "when one woman reportedly pushed a child aside as her own child was scrambling toward some brightly colored eggs."

A REAL drama queen at work reading a children’s book and trying to “make an impression” on the children who had attended the yearly White House Easter Monday egg hunt gathering. Looks like one of the first daughters looked very “embarrassed” by how her father was performing while reading the book. Was he also trying to show off on the basketball court, thinking he can outdo any of the best NCAA or NBA basketball players? But then again, the kids were part of a captive audience. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow48Pm4AsLI

We’re familiar with the “war on Christmas,” but what about the war on Easter? It looks like it’s starting. An Ohio town has decided that the local East egg hunt is just too exclusive, and decided to rename this weekend’s seasonal event to “The Spring Egg Hunt.” Doesn’t quite have the same ring, does it? The controversy in Munson Township centers around the event being sponsored by taxpayers. A private sponsor has come forward, however, and is now offering to foot the bill:

AN EASTER EGG hunt ended in disaster when a teenage girl tripped an illegal hunting trap baited with birds' eggs. Carina Faerber, 13, mistook the bait for chocolate eggs, setting off the hair trigger of a vicious razor-sharp gin-trap that left her hand hanging by a thread. Her wrist was broken and almost severed altogether when she tried to pick up the eggs - used to lure weasels in woods near her house in Weisskirchen, Austria. Her screams alerted local walkers who dialled emergency services, as reported by the Austrian Times. Police say the eggs were left as bait by...

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See for example this thread first. Hear Now! A publicity stunt The Gay/Lesbian Easter Egg Hunt "On the White House Lawn," I observe, with a yawn. (Keep an eye peeled for Allen Funt.)