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PEZ cancels annual Easter egg hunt after adults misbehave, and some parents blame PEZ

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JEDI

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...hunt-ends-after-adults-cause-mayhem/82322972/

PEZ Candy abruptly canceled its annual Easter egg hunt in Orange, Conn., on Saturday morning after parents disobeyed rules.

PEZ said it had over 9,000 eggs on three separate fields, each of which was designated for a particular age group with start times 15 minutes apart, but parents <bum> rushed onto the fields before the posted start times.
and they grabbed eggs from all 3 fields.

most parents supported Pez but some parents blamed PEZ for canceling:
"Thanks for the waste of time and non-existent organization of your egg hunt ... We drive 2 and a half hours to show up 30 min early only to receive a 'sorry, no one listened and they started early,'" &#8206;Liz Soares wrote on PEZ's page.


WTF? 😵
 
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So stupid. Color your own eggs and have your little guy hunt them in your own back yard. A free-for-all like this for a few cents worth of treats isn't worth the hassle.
 
WTF is wrong with people and free stuff? They act like these Easter eggs were made of gold.
 
The looters who rushed the gates are at fault, but Pez should have known they would need massive security at the event. People turn into animals anytime freebies are offered.

My wife used to owned a business in an upscale indoor shopping center that would host Easter egg hunts, give out Halloween candy and other assorted freebies throughout the year. Those events always brought out the worst of the worst.
 
Next year they need to set it up more like the beaches of Normandy, and treat those who storm the fields early appropriately (with high powered water guns of course.)
 
Miramonti said:
Next year they need to set it up more like the beaches of Normandy, and treat those who storm the fields early appropriately (with high powered water guns of course.)
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nah.. use real bullets.
the world doesn't need them and would be a better place w/o them
 
Solution: All parents and children must register for photo IDs before being allowed into the event and every inch of the field is blanketed by high def cameras covering every possible angle. See how many adults riot if they're 100% sure that they can be easily identified and subjected to criminal charges afterward. I'm willing to bet that would eliminate the problems.
 
Aw, damn, I want some PEZ now -- their sponsorship worked.

They gotta make those PEZ packages bigger.
 
Miramonti said:
Next year they need to set it up more like the beaches of Normandy, and treat those who storm the fields early appropriately (with high powered water guns of course.)
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I know you're joking, but I would support this kind of Easter egg hunt. At least you'd feel like you earned the prizes. Someone should put something like this together. If people are paying to jump around in mud pits while running a marathon, I've no doubt people would pay to be shot at with a water hose if there were prizes involved.
 
At the museum I work at there was an egg hunt a couple years ago for the kids. The director had to take a couple parents out back and explain to them that they need to let some of the other kids get eggs as well, after mom and dad had apparently been doing a crazed mad dash grabbing and stuffing every egg they could get into their kid's basket.

We instituted a 3 egg per family rule after that but we would sometimes see parents putting an egg or two in their pocket or purse after their kid already had 3 in their basket. We were running out of eggs in under ten minutes still, with kids continuing to pour through the doors that ended up walking away empty handed. We stopped hosting an egg hunt every Easter after that.
 
Didn't take the Americans that long to put themselves back at #1 after they were challenged by China with that whole Chinese tourists @ the buffet incident. Sorry China, try harder next time like punching a baby in the face.
 
kt said:
Didn't take the Americans that long to put themselves back at #1 after they were challenged by China with that whole Chinese tourists @ the buffet incident. Sorry China, try harder next time like punching a baby in the face.
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lol


truth.
 
Phokus said:
Edit: whoops wrong town.
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The Pez factory is pretty close to Bridgeport, which is pretty much the asshole of New England. I'd imagine that it used to be nice at one point, but now it's all abandoned factories that are spraypainted with graffiti. It's close to New Haven as well, which isn't much better than Bridgeport once you get two blocks away from Yale in every direction.
 
kt said:
Didn't take the Americans that long to put themselves back at #1 after they were challenged by China with that whole Chinese tourists @ the buffet incident. Sorry China, try harder next time like punching a baby in the face.
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As a Chinese-American, I win either way. If China wins, I say hell yeah, all hail the motherland!. And if the US of A wins, 'Murica! ...Can I be a Chinese Redneck?
 
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