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To the people who helped themselves to an easter egg hunt at the Cambridge Battery in Monday’s downpour while we waited in our cars for the rain to calm, thank you for taking every single egg and easter dream from the young people it was intended for. —Not Very Hoppy
This article appears in Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2013.
14 Comments
sorry but they tasted so good in my belly.
You did say it was an Easter Egg “Hunt” right. Not an Easter Egg curbside delivery?
Aw, what a bunch of douche bags…it sounds like you were sitting in a car watching them, though? Why didn’t you say to stop? Also, were the eggs all soggy and wet? Cause that’d be gross.
worst bitch ever.. if you didn’t want to be in the rain and everything was taken before you got out there then you shouldn’t have waited.. And Easter is for all ages.. If I feel like being silly on Easter I’m gonna even if that means doing an egg hunt.. but not in the rain.. I hates the rain!
Ya snooze, ya lose. No matter: all the stores have their goodies on at give away prices. Stock up!
You know you can get kids who do not melt in the rain.
Maybe some of the more hardy kiddies stayed behind and found the eggs. Survival of the fittest (soon to be fattest).
Public space …. public candy ….. rot the teeth of someone else ….. win/win.
So you sat in your car and watched them take all the eggs? Get an umbrella and some balls. You snooze, you lose.
I just came back from walking my dog in Point Pleasant Park where a fellow dog owner/walker complained bitterly about the fact that on Monday the Cambridge Battery area was full of chocolate Easter eggs. They were everywhere, but there were no humans around. This is part of the area of the park where dogs can roam off-leash. He picked all of the eggs up that he could find so that all of the dogs that regularly go through there would not find the eggs, ingest them and become violently ill and possibly die! It is well known that chocolate is very toxic to animals but they love it as much as humans! So, next time you want to throw chocolate around, do it in a private, enclosed area where dogs will not have access to it – and stick around so you won’t be responsible for possibly harming and/or killing innocent animals!
Are you sure someone didn’t wrap up all the dog shit in the area?
To Responsible Doggie Owner: Please don’t indulge in hyperbole. The toxicity of chocolate and its active alkaloid, theobramine, entirely depends on the dog, its size, and its sensitivity. Chocolate is toxic to some but not to others; mine once ate two one-pound chocolate bunnies with no ill effects (when she raided the kids’ Easter baskets). As a general rule, one should avoid giving chocolate to dogs, but it’s not an automatic poison.
To the person whose dog ate chocolate: you’re missing the point…dog owners know that chocolate is not good for dogs; the person who picked up the chocolate eggs did not do so to ‘steal’ the eggs; it was solely to prevent harm to dogs whose owners may not expect there to be numerous chocolate eggs lying around for their dogs to gain access to. We discussed that they were probably missed during an egg hunt the previous day – sunny Easter Sunday – a reasonable assumption (rather than put out and left on the rainy day after Easter), and he was thanked for being responsible and caring in removing and disposing of them.
maybe the thieves WERE kids op. Did you see them?
it’s an easter egg hunt. Which implies survival of the fittest hunter.