In what sounds like a fantastic display of appropriate grown-up behaviour, apparently a public Easter Egg hunt in Laval descended into chaos and anarchy as 10 000 people literally jumped a fence to start the hunt ahead of the proscribed time, with the following description from the CBC:
Displeased with the delay in the start of the hunt, some parents disassembled the fence, causing both children and parents to lurch forward ahead of the scheduled depart time.
“The hunt was supposed to start at noon, but some people arrived at 9:30 a.m. and got impatient,†said Cocothon organizer Angella Pattas.
“It was really the beginning of the loss of control.â€
Some children got pushed over as others ran forth to scoop up plastic eggs containing treats.
Other youngsters came away with nothing — especially after some parents snatched eggs out of other children’s baskets to give them to their own kids.
Luckily, no one was injured.
Yep, nobody was injured, except civility, common sense and good judgment. Clearly those casualties were evident at this event.
Obviously if there IS a time where knocking children to the ground in a mob-maddened scramble for a few cents worth of shitty chocolate is perfectly fine, it must be at Easter time. You would never get away with this kind of crap at Halloween, hip-checking little Disney princesses and Spidermen out of the way to get some Twizzlers. Nossir. That’s a refined, proper holiday.
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