Apparatus

Easter Bunny Loses Head on NJ Apparatus Ride

April 13, 2020

A gust of wind knocked off the costume head of a Margate firefighter who was dressed as the Easter Bunny and riding atop a department aerial Sunday.

By Amy S. Rosenberg

Source The Philadelphia Inquirer

A wind gust knocked off the costume head of a Margate, NJ, firefighter dressed as the Easter Bunny and riding a department aerial Sunday.

Easter eggs weren’t the only things rolling for the holiday during this year of unusual things. In Margate, the Easter Bunny’s head rolled.

Literally, the wind whipped off the costume head of a waving Margate firefighter posing as the Easter Bunny as the fire truck rode through the streets of this Jersey Shore town Saturday evening.

Brian Miranda, owner of Atlantic City’s Wonder Bar, was fortuitously there to film the not-exactly-blessed event and share with the world on Facebook.

“Easter bunny decapitated in my NJ town (Margate, NJ)” Miranda posted, as the video shows an exuberantly waving E.B. atop the fire engine and then the head flying off the back of the vehicle and rolling in the street.

“Oh, no!,” a man is heard saying on the video, as a following battalion truck pulls over, sirens in the distance, the bunny head landing on the street. “Code Red!”

The video tags Margate firefighter Chris Fantazzia, who “liked” a comment asking whether he was the decapitated bunny in question. (Fantazzia confirmed Sunday that he was, indeed, the unmasked bunny.)

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