Our town did this once then discontinued it. Parents of the 3 and under were allowed to accompany their kids and they ran out and picked up all the eggs, 50-100 each. Many of the kids got none. “Like taking candy from a baby” has gone literal.
This one might be worse - when I was 12, I walked 3 miles up to a town park with a couple of friends for the 12-and-under Easter egg hunt. They had a softball sized gold egg that was for the grand prize, a 3 foot chocolate bunny. One of my friends found the gold egg (he saw about where the guy hid it), then took it and buried it. He “found” it officially after 90 minutes of everybody else looking.