Speaking of crowds, here’s yet another N&R letter to the editor on the chaotic Easter egg drop at New Bridge Bank Park:
This was the worst event I have attended in Greensboro. Anyone in their right mind would know that you don’t group children ages 3 to 8 in a running event. No allowances were made for the 1- and 2-year-olds, whom the hunt should have been for.
There were no people on the field to help keep the crowd under control.
I talked with someone about it over the weekend and said it was if the eggs were sucked into the ground. Meanwhile, the eggs dropped form the sky down in Denton:
“I think that’s probably all the people in the township of Denton right there,” said Luke Camper to his wife, Andrea, as they gazed behind them at the growing mass of people.
At 10:45 Saturday morning, a line of families trailed down the athletic field of Denton Elementary School. Some were armed with fuzzy bunny ears, but most carried baskets.
They all came to watch thousands of Easter eggs fall out of the sky.
…A wave of Easter egg hunters under the age of 6 dashed across the field with parents in tow. In two other groups, the older children were allowed to pass the boundary, stooping to gather eggs along the way.
After an hour of anticipation, the field was cleaned of eggs in under three minutes.
Hard to believe there’s not one upset Mommy in emerging from that crowd. The letter to the editor in the Lexington Dispatch should be very interesting over the next few days.
