# Easter egg hunt turns bloody

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 28, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421 "2016-03-28T00:56:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421/21 "2016-03-29T00:28:33Z")

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> [@Seanette](#):
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> I’m guessing there isn’t likely to BE a next year for this event.

Au contraire! They should sell tickets to people wanting to watch. It could be a major fund-raiser.

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421/22 "2016-03-29T03:47:16Z")

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has a huge festival every year, that ran off the rails once, circa 1995 or so, and turned into a campus-wide-and-beyond riot. The administration responded by canceling the event for the next 4 or 5 years, long enough that every student at the time would be gone before they ran it again.

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**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421/23 "2016-03-29T15:33:26Z")

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> [@Johnny\_L.A](#):
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> Dad would have an Easter egg hunt in the back yard every year. They neighbourhood kids would come over and hunt for goodies, and the adults would sit on the patio drinking beer (or coffee, in dad’s case) and chatting.

A good trick for extending the adults drinking time - tell the kids that there are 25 eggs hidden. Only hide 24.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-egg-hunt-turns-bloody/750421/24 "2016-03-29T19:00:05Z")

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Sorry, buddy, but we’re out of food coloring. The next dozen eggs will be colored using red dye number YOU!

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