Cops Bust Kids' Lemonade Stand: Rules Are Rules or Stupid Move?

Before inforcing rules, you have to remind yourself why this law exists in the first place, and if in these small cases, if the original purpose can still be applied. Clearly not the case here, and is a stupid move.

seriously?! what a jerk move, bet the kids just didn't give him a free drink so he busted them

can't they focus on people doing real crimes? just hang out in the hood waiting for people to steal cars instead of busting little kids selling lemonade!

Wrong click.
How will kids ever learn to be self reliant if any effort at self help meets a political blockade?

But that is how the real world works when you become an adult.

since when do you need a permit to run a lemonade stand? wtf that is so funny AND stupid.
"do you have a licence to run that lemonade stand sir?"
"I can't understand you sir, your going to have to take that pacifier out of your mouth first"

I heard you don't need a permit to sell crack and heroin...just a good pair of running shoes.

Stupid rules need to be removed. Here are some others:
No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.
Donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.
All sex toys are banned.
It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a funeral home or in a coroners office.
And those are just in Georgia.

In Virginia they have one that states that you can beat you wife on Wednesdays from 4-4:30 PM with the prescribed size switch.

This has happened in my home town... And I also work as a pastry chef. I don't care much about their argument on not having business permits, but unregulated food is the fastest way to get sick. If you can get sick from a restaurant adhering to and regularly checked by the FDA for sanitation hazards, imagine what buying lemonade from children can give you.

A good feeling that they are not sitting around getting fat and lazy waiting for the government checks to start coming in.

This sounds like our stupid cops. They'll do ANYTHING except stop the meth problem in town. OH! Illegal lane change. OH! Speed trap. OH! Train going back and forth to bust people who cross the rails before the red lights go out...really!!! Dumba$$e$

Meth sellers cost a lot to catch, prosecute and imprison, but they rarely pay fines.
Speed traps are fast, easy cash.

It's taxation through citation...and you're right.

Seriously, what a waste of time and taxes. What ever happened to encouraging ingenuity? When i was younger and it was a hot summer day, I went around seeling popsicles and sodas. Never once was I asked where I got them, and yeah I even sold lemonade at sales.
I wonder if the cops think that all donuts are made equally at all chains too?

I find it unbelievable in this day you need a permit to sell lemonade on your lawn. Anyone old enough to remember lemonade stands when they were a kid, selling it on their front lawn. I thought that was the American thing. American, like apple pie. Next thing you know they'll ban that because it's too fattening.

Hello! Mr. Policeman go catch the Robbers and Murderers. It's a Lemonade stand for Christ sake.

When life gives you lemons, lawyer up. It's the new American way.

I'd give free lemonade away to any former Midway PD donors willing to redirect those funds to my waterslide trip & whomever campaigns to replace Police Chief Morningstar.

Brilliant!

very very dumb on the cops part....

What ever happened to common sense?!! Those cops need to be protecting the citizens against crime instead of busting little girls for selling lemonade! Go after the real offenders - the taco vendors who don't have a permit to sell food and who are probably Illegals!

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guess its ok to sell drugs in that town but not lemonade

There is no license fee to collect from drug sellers.

ahhh now I see what the problem was,somebody didnt get their kickback

You got it, friend.

First of all the requirement to get a permit needs to be looked into. Who gives the government, any government the authority to demand people to have to ask permission to do something. This needs to be stopped.

As long as the people of this nation in general just stand by and allow government officials to tell them what they can and can't do it will continue. Government knows no limits on it's powers and will not enforce limits on it's own powers or authority.

The permitting process needs to be ended and the people should be allowed to sell or buy a product of their choice without asking a government agency for their permission to sell or buy a product. It is called a free enterprise system for a reason, the freedom to buy or sell a product without any interference from the government and we need to return to that system.
The people of this nation need to take a stand and Demand from their government employees they end of the Permitting process and a return to the free market.This is just like the Amish and other Dairy Farmers being raided by the FDA for selling Raw Milk to their customers who wish to purchase it. It is the customers choice to buy the raw unpasteurized milk and the FDA nor any other government agency have any business getting involved in this decision made by the farmers and their customers.

How bloody childish can you get

its dumb as hell y would you do that when you think America you think white picket fence and a lemon-aid stand out front with a golden retriever

Kids should be allowed to sell Lemonade!!!!

Since when is it illigeal to sale lemonade and pocket some extra cash....It is a very hot summer and I think that kids should be allowed to sell lemonade...
unless they are like slipping drugs into the drinks that is wrong an dthey should be busted for that...but not this.....
love you forever
lizzy

Kids today have little opportunity to make spending money. They can't mow lawns because people have to have a way to pay their social security and have to have the proper insurance in case they stub a toe. Our government has gone NUTS. As a kid I picked all kinds of berries, beans, peas and other things. We sold lemonade and in the fall hot chocolate. We worked all summer if we wanted. Now they wonder why kids get in trouble, they have too much time on their hands and no money to buy what they want.

do I really need to say anything?

Cops are just dumb retard for doing this non sense act. It was just a lemonade stand for sake. Why a stupid permit is needed just to serve and sell juice. These girls just wanted to earn the money to go to there dream trip to a water park. But lame old Police Chief Kelly Morningstar had to ruin it for them girls and there dreams to go to there local trip to there water park.

how the hell are they supposed to get the permits and its just lemonade

Well, that's what can happen sometimes when you live in a place where it is entirely possible to entertain yourself for hours on end with nothing but a fly swatter.

Lemonade stand kids rarely shoot at cops.

that cop must have been bored as hell

I can picture it now. Little kids in a court house trying to get a permit to sell Lemonade. Oh yeah they are rejected because they are little kids. I find that insane,