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Not since December have we seen such a crop of awesome scared kiddo photos. This time, the giant, costumed fearmonger is not a big dude in red but rather a creature sporting big ears, cheap fur and those creepy vacant glass eyes that accompany any mall-variety Easter Bunny costume. Frightened? These kids think you should be. Hat tip to iVillage.com for sharing these gems.
Sketchy Bunnies
No amount of chocolate eggs will make up for this!
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While sister is not quite sure, little brother is definitely not down with the situation.
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The vest and cocked ear would be enough to make anyone burst into tears.
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The EB makes a dive to keep this tearful kiddo from escaping.
Courtesy Brittney, mom to Ainsley
As if one scary EB isn't bad enough, this little one has to deal with two!
For way more bunny-scare photos, hop on over to iVillage to see the full slideshow.
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The look on the face of the girl in the second photo is PRICELESS! She's terrified, but trying desparately to hold it together!
Just called my niece and read the title of article to her - hysterical laugh. It just so happens the family has an identical reaction photo. Priceless. Shear terror. The photo is 25 years old.
This is hilarious! In each of the photos it looks like the giant bunnies are just about to devour the children! Especially #2 and #4 haa haa. And they are so so happy they have found their prey, they're beaming with joy!
I passed the Easter Bunny in the mall yesterday...along with the impecably dressed children that were destined to be sacrificed for a photo.
I have two kids that were never phased by anything we sat them on for a photo and then the one who was always suspect...that deer in headlights look...it didn't take long to realize I was so much better off to take candid pics at the easter egg hut.
Fur-reaky!
The 2nd & 4th pics especially are fodder for a Stephen King novel.
That bunny in the third picture looks up to no good. I can't imagine subjecting my child to that madness.
Easter memory.
My mom and her sisters have a friend whose name is Dolly. When I was very little my siblings and I just found our Easter baskets. Then my mom brought out a big store bought basket and said "this is from Dolly". WHAT? DOLLY? First its a rabbit, and now it's dolls??? I was thoroughly cofused.
I don't think a large, cuddly bunny can be considered as scary to a child than a strange man with a large belly dressed in red clothing (Santa Claus), though.
Somewhere buried deep in one of my family photo albums is a snapshot of me when I was 4, literally peeing myself in terror at Santa Claus as he looked on. His beard was made out of some stringy material that looked like it came right off a mop, and I remember being terrified that he was going to try to strangle me with some of the loose ends of his scraggly beard.
My parents brought out that photo when I acted too big for my britches and when we had relatives visit us.
Judging by your picture, I'd say you never got over it.
Yes, early childhood trauma can have serious repercussions in adulthood. My hair tonic bills alone are enough to match the GNP of French Guiana ... ;)
Thanks for the chuckle.
I find nothing funny about making kids cry by forcing them to sit on the lap of some weird looking bunny...Or Santa Claus...
Well if you don't teach them that they shouldn't fear such silly things, they'll be afraid of silly things.
Well if you make them do this, they might be scared of the silly things forever. I just don't find anything amusing about it. Meh...
"Large, cuddly bunny"?? I'm sorry, but those "bunnies" look demented. No wonder the kids are freaking out. They're going to have nightmares for the rest of their lives.
Demented is the one in the bunny suit made from faded red long-johns. That's beyond creepy.
I love it!! I hope they are scared to death! Little brats!
HAHAH this article/pictures are top shelf. Thanks for the laugh!
The Bunny in the second picture looks like he/she is about to gleefully bite the head off the kid on his/her lap.
Oh and you just know the dude in the 3rd picture is drunk.
I did the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus and Halloween and everything else when my kids were small, but I'm wondering now why we do this to our kids. If anyone told you that you were mean to scare your kids on purpose you'd tell them to get out of here because you'd never ever do that. But here we are with that big ol' bunny again. One, two, and three year olds have no idea what's going on so why scare them for a "cute" photo? Isn't four about the right age to take the story off the printed page and introduce them to the big dressed up guys? And then let the child decide whether he/she wants to go up close and sit on the guy's lap.
Heck, if an unfamiliar neighbor guy or your batty aunt Ignacia came over and grabbed your child you'd have a fit for forcing your child to do the same thing you are forcing him/her to do with Santa and the Easter Bunny. You might even have the neighbor guy arrested.
P.S., I'm talking about the kids who resist strange new things. I know some kids aren't afraid of anything. My nephews were riding the scariest rides at the county fair by the time they could walk.
I was the Easter Bunny this past weekend at my job. I had so many scared kids, but yet their parents in most cases still wanted me to hold their kids tightly so that they could get their photo. It was a fun experience. I do not know if I would do it again though.
To laugh at kids' fear is cruel. I see nothing wrong with encouraging the picture if the child is willing, but there is nothing funny about the terror they felt.
Wow, the horrible things people do to their kids for a laugh.
The bunny in picture #3 looks like a guy I had a few beers with last night. I say that because by the time last call came around I could have been sitting there with the all mighty himself and wouldn't have known the difference. I guess it reminds me of a job I had at a liquor store in Anaheim California during my first year in college where each holiday the owner an Italian guy from New Jersey would make me dress up in some ridicules outfit and stand outside of the store with a sign waving people in. I hated that part of the job because it made me feel like a total fool and I had to suffer the insults and flying objects that came out of passing cars. This included coke cans, bottles, hard candy and a diaper that had just been removed from the bottom of some toddler that had just relived himself. Bottom line I felt the same way these crying kids did after a while because it was none stop especially on a Friday night. As a result I did not subject my kids to the old sit on the bunny’s lap or Santa or any of that.
To the MORON PARENTS who think this is cute and charming, imagine someone forcing YOU to sit in the lap of a stranger four times your size wearing a freaky costume and grabbing at you. Ladies, imagine this stranger is a hairy man with a deep voice who's groping at you. This is EXACTLY how your toddlers and babies perceive the situation.
What a GREAT way to instill your kids' trust in you!!! Kids should be taught they have complete dominion over who touches their body. If they're not taught this, then it will be that much easier for them to become REPEATED victims of molestation.
Moms out there who still think this is harmless, how would YOU feel if some strange man on the job grabbed you and said, "Give me a hug?" You'd freak, maybe kick him where it counts, then sue for sexual harrassment.
Thank god for infant amnesia. They forget it. And don't bother spouting off at me in bold - I don't read responses to my posts and I already see you are desperate double-poster anyway. Try getting a life.
I agree Airrika. big trouble. they don't always forget.... And who gives a crap if you read responses or not.
I only remember having to sit on Santa's lap once in my childhood. It was for some church christmas party. Go to the party, have a cookie and sit on Santa's lap, get a gift (donated from the congregation). I wasn't afraid of Santa though. But the gift was Alien, the board game. No kidding, at 9, that gameboard gave me nightmares.
I just read the posts. Shame on the sickos who seek entertainment at the espense of their kids. Most of these sickos are women. I hope you all get forced one day to get tightly held by the town drunk who's twice your size, just for some stupid photo, even though you were dragged kicking and screaming into the scary stranger's arms. Imagine how this would feel, and then imagine if the person making you do this is your OWN MOTHER. Wow, you'd REALLY trust her after that, wouldn't you?
Baloney to those who feel this is how you teach kids to be social. Baloney and you know this is NOT the real reason. The real reason is because you'll go at any lengths to get a stupid photo and to exert control over your kids and show them who's boss. This can be accomplished without destroying their faith in you or making them believe that ANYBODY has a right to TOUCH THEIR BODY!
Idiots, then you tell your kids not to go off with strangers, don't talk to strangers, etc., but then you force them screaming into a stranger's arms. MORONS. Don't be surprised if 15 years later, your kid finally tells you he or she was molested for YEARS by his coach, priest, babysitter or whoever.
Good lord. Just because these things go through your mind doesn't mean the Easter Bunny's thinking them. Holy crap what a sh!tty society this has become.
...what? I seriously have to wonder about your thinking process. I reacted the same way around relatives that only visited once in a while and I didn't know them very well. My "big scary" uncle made me cry and so I'm more likely to allow myself be molested? What is wrong with you?
There's a big difference between absolute strangers and the people we don't know very well that our parents say are okay. Moron.
The hilarious part is the gigantic creeepy smiles on the gigantic bunnies' faces as the kids scream in terror. It's that contrast that make the bunnies look soo evil. The bunnies are like, "Haa haa haa another tasty morsel!" or, "Score!! another one for the man eating bunny!". I like the last one too, it looks like the parents are leaving the kid behind with the bunnies and the bunnies are just laughing away, "haa haa haa! He won't be crying for long!!" .. "Don't worry we'll take real tasty good care of him!!