Sales of Easter Egg Hunting Licenses Skyrocket in Maine!

Mainers are apparently very excited about going hunting for Easter Eggs this weekend! This Modern Philosopher has learned that City Halls and Town Offices throughout the state have been flooded with citizens looking to purchase Easter Egg Hunting licenses.

Easter Egg Hunting has always been a popular family activity in Maine, but this season, clerks cannot print out and laminate the licenses quickly enough to keep up with the demand. In some towns, the lines stretched down several blocks and required a police presence to keep order.

“It’s a combination of factors,” Sandy von Trapp, a spokeswoman for the Maine Hunting Commission, told me when I was finally able to get through to her office after trying for over an hour. “It’s been a cold winter, but it’s supposed to be warm the next few days. That will cause the Easter Eggs to come out of hibernation and migrate closer to the populated areas. Also, after the horrible St. Patrick’s Day we had, people are really looking forward to celebrating Easter. Finally, Mainers just love to hunt…give them any excuse to pick up a gun and put on some orange, and they are locked and loaded and ready to go!”

Of course, not everyone in Maine is a fan of hunting. Protesters from Protect Easter Eggs, People! (PEEP!) were out in force in front of the City Halls in both Bangor and Brewer today.

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