Police in Ga. shut down girls' lemonade stand

[Feuer Frei!]

Tax Payer's money well spent :haha:

Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.
The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.
The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.
One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.
The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.


SOURCE (http://news.yahoo.com/police-ga-shut-down-girls-lemonade-stand-151815766.html)

[Oberon]

Yubba deployment in five...four...three...

[August]

Yubba deployment in five...four...three...

Before he does do you agree or disagree with Chief Morningstar? Shouldn't exceptions be made for a kids lemonade stand? I think they should and this Kelly Morningstar who just happened to be "driving by with another officer" sounds like the Principal who would expel a kid for having a plastic knife in their lunchbox.

Laws need to be applied with common sense.

[Jimbuna]

I'm torn between...

It's only kids trying to make a few dollars for a day out so what harm can they do and...

The law of the land is applicable to everyone regardless of differing circumstances.

In my day I reckon I'd have driven passed and not noticed anything untoward unless I'd been sent there as a result of a complaint.

Common sense should always be at the forefront of your consideration.

[Platapus]

I am torn also.

On one hand it is a bunch of kids selling lemonade.

On the other hand, what if someone get's sick because the kids did not know what they were doing.

I think a happy medium could be reached. Let the kids sell lemonade, but make sure they know what they are doing and make sure everything is clean.

Compromise and moderation is the solution for this non-problem.

[Anthony W.]

I was once called to the office for having a box in my car that said "Smirnoff" on it. It was filled with cans and food that I was taking to the church for my grandmother.

This is totally ridiculous - its freaking lemonade.

[TorpX]

This really makes me wonder about Midway, GA.

[STEED]

Has the world gone mad? Yes.

But by how much?

[nikimcbee]

Who do these guys think they are? Portland Ore-gone?:dead:

Lesson; don't get between gubmint and their money.:dead:

[Garion]

When I was in the Police Force we were taught to use discretion, in this case I would have driven on past.

Cheers

Garion

[gimpy117]

Who do these guys think they are? Portland Ore-gone?:dead:

Lesson; don't get between gubmint and their money.:dead:

I think it's more of a case of overzealous cops than money.

[yubba]

Yubba deployment in five...four...three... A parade for me you shouldn't have. I guess I'm not as wacked as I thought I was, and you don't have too drink the stuff.

[nikimcbee]

A parade for me you shouldn't have. I guess I'm not as wacked as I thought I was, and you don't have too drink the stuff.

[Zeus orders Trident to release the seamonster] Release....the Yubba.:haha:

Incoming torpedo Captain...... Launch the Yubba!

So when we land on Mars, will there be Yubba rovers?

[Snestorm]

Another example of overintrusive government.

[mapuc]

Long live the bureaucracy

[MothBalls]

If I was on patrol and saw this I would have......

Stopped. Had a glass of lemonade.

Told other officers to stop by when they got the chance.

[nikimcbee]

If I was on patrol and saw this I would have......

Stopped. Had a glass of lemonade.

Told other officers to stop by when they got the chance.

:up: We had this problem last year with the city of portland and the boat show. An army of ticket writers from the city came down to the dock to write our pt boat a ticket for not having a license to tie up to the dock. After a tour of the bout, they gave us a donation and we never saw them again.:haha: (note, it took six of them to write us a ticket:dead:) city workers...:doh:

[Feuer Frei!]

A follow-up to this:

The Coastal Source wanted to help achieve their dreams and gave four tickets to go to Splash in the Boro.

SOURCE (http://www.thecoastalsource.com/news/state/story/Lemonade-Stand-Shut-Down-Midway-Girls-Continue-Bu/9hVtDOMHeEqgTu7Q3P2OgA.cspx)

And:

Lemonade Co. Buys License and Permits for Busted Lemonade Stand

One of the biggest lemonade flavor product companies in the country has offered to pay for the girls' business license and permit fees and supply them with a summer's worth of lemonade products. Calypso employees say they saw the girls' story on from our news station and knew they had to do something.

SOURCE (http://www.thecoastalsource.com/news/state/story/Lemonade-Co-Buys-License-and-Permits-for-Busted-L/vQahO5--6kSEVvYu6Efn6A.cspx)

[Krauter]

Bet those poh-leece feel like they upheld the law big time now..

Idiots :shifty:

[Castout]

Another example of overintrusive government.

Indeed. :shifty:

[August]

Calypso employees say they saw the girls' story on from our news station and knew they had to do something.

Yeah they couldn't let a golden marketing opportunity like this pass them by! :DL

[Sailor Steve]

Yeah they couldn't let a golden marketing opportunity like this pass them by! :DL
Contrary to popular belief, enlightened self-interest is the most powerful force in the universe. :sunny:

[Oberon]

Before he does do you agree or disagree with Chief Morningstar? Shouldn't exceptions be made for a kids lemonade stand? I think they should and this Kelly Morningstar who just happened to be "driving by with another officer" sounds like the Principal who would expel a kid for having a plastic knife in their lunchbox.

Laws need to be applied with common sense.

My apologies for my tardiness, however I do think that it's daft, although to blame it on over-intrusive government is perhaps over-generalizing it a little bit. Yes, it is daft that laws exist that allow this kind of thing to happen, however there are other suitably crazy laws in both the US and UK that the police do not enforce.

For example, in Massachusetts, I do believe that it is illegal for shooting ranges to set up targets that resemble humans, and public boxing matches are outlawed, and in Mississippi it is illegal to teach others what polygamy is. Just like in the UK it is the law that all English males over the age of 14 have to carry out two or so hours of Longbow training per week, supervised by their local clergyman, and the London cab (Hackney carriage) has to carry a bale of hay in the back, has to be tethered at taxi ranks and the council has to provide water troughs at the aforementioned ranks.

It's up to the individual law enforcement officer to use his or hers common sense to judge when a law needs to be upheld, and unfortunately there are some jobsworths out there who think that every law needs to be followed to the letter and that they are, to quote a 2000AD character, 'The law'.

[Jimbuna]

And that is what precisely should prevail.....common sense :yep:

[Jimbuna]

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