“It was like watching some action [movie] in slow motion,” says a pastor at the church that held the event
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- Footage has gone viral showing a volunteer with Immanuel Baptist Church in Tallahassee, Fla., rescuing a child just before hundreds of Easter eggs dropped on them from a crane
- Millions of people have seen the near-miss at the event
- “When she turned and those eggs started coming, I said, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It was like watching some action [movie] in slow motion,” says Jim Moore, an associate pastor with the church
A young child narrowly avoided hundreds of plastic eggs that were dropped from above as part of a Florida church’s Easter egg hunt event this weekend.
The incident, which was captured on video by Ashley Lauren Sparks and shared by Storyful, occurred in an open field at Immanuel Baptist Church in Tallahassee, the Tallahassee Democrat reported on Tuesday, April 7.
Kids and their parents had gathered at the event on Saturday, April 4, in which an Easter bunny was attached to a crane and hoisted up in the air in preparation to drop the plastic eggs filled with treats…