Posted on 04/30/2024 3:04:00 AM PDT by Sam77
Police have fined a Wyoming Girl Scout $400 for ‘not having permission’ to sell cookies on her grandparent’s driveway.
A code enforcement officer asked Emma McCarroll, 13, and her mom if they had the landowner’s permission to sell from a driveway in the city’s Pine Avenue area.
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I was a brownie and Girl Scout. But I’m not paying over $7 for a box of cookies. Found some amazing ones made in usa $1.25 at Dollar Tree.
he may also run the library when the librarian is on vacation.
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He’d be Heck on overdue books!
You see the story where police arrested a young mother for overdue books. That was in Texas!
FWIW Yeah, but I didn't see it in the UK Daily Mail or Cowboy State Daily. The first time I saw it was here.
The article (possibly the original, I read both) notes that she spent, IIRC, $508 on the attorney. I’d guess that attorney fees run less in rural Wyoming than wherever you are at and the total represents between 2 and 4 hours.
The reduced fine, whatever exactly the amount reduced and the amount spent on the attorney, wasn’t enough to cover the expenditure.
However, if everyone just rolls over and accepts multiple charges the community will soon be at the mercy of the cop.
Whatever her person decision I support her.
She raised awareness.
Even Wyoming has been infested with communists at everu governmental level...
Now have her follow up with a big FU sign on the front yard.
That @hole tyrant should be horsewhipped monthly for the next ten years.
Why should any organization in business be “spared” from the auspices of code enforcement? I wish more of this would happen to really shine the light on how ignorant “codes” can be.
Who really owns the property when you have to ask for permission?
cops have wide discretion.....the law should always be instructive and helpful first and foremost.
"So the future lesbian / Planned Parenthood-loving kid got shut down. People who put their kids into Scouting are bad parents.
But the cops were out of line."
Seems pretty cut and dry. Now where did you say there are some good groups within the organization? And I wonder who needs reading comprehension here...
Shame and shun him and hus family
How about of the year?
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Absolutely, without question.
I used to wonder how totalitarian regimes took hold. How did this happen? One part of it, for example In Europe, particularly after the economic dislocations and revolution, a government job with pension was a very desirable thing. Very subject to political whims. You tell somebody to do something, and they do it.
The alternative is to get fired. Lose benefits, pay, and pension. I think we saw some analogs to this, with the employer or government vaccination requirements for the particular strain of bug with dubious provenance a few years back. Everyone is willing to let their control-freak flag fly if they get the green light from the “authorities”.
The National Socialists in Germany called it Gleischaultung or “coordination”. A streamlining or consolidation of the entire party platform, or “working toward the fuhrer”. It doesn’t need to be written down, people will know what to do. If not, they’ll get told, and do it.
The leftists here have incorporated the same (naturally) - notice how they have the Unified Field Theory, tying everything to palestinians, global warming, nazis, transvestitism and this and that, plus hatin’ all those heebs, destroying the energy supply, etc etc.
As so accurately noted by Dr. Larry Aarn of Hillsdale College (in, if memory serves, in his excellent book, The Founders' Key), so much, if not most of this damage and tyranny is conducted not by politicians, but by unelected bureaucrats. This was clearly exposed throughout the recent Fauci Flu debacle.
Cheers!
Well obviously the question becomes how to prevent this phenomenon. Because it has played out over and over, and always the same way. “Civil service” reforms made political patronage go away. While it had its faults it was a direct feedback mechanism linked to the citizenry through voting.
I guess, way before my time, if the presidency changed parties in an election year and it went to the Republicans, your town would get a new postmaster appointed by him, that kind of thing.
It’s just weird to see a country that has spent more money on government agencies and departments and administrations and has more legislation and laws and US code and regulations and directives, and is completely falling apart because nobody can be bothered to the simple stuff. Simple ain’t always easy, but they signed on to the job. Weaponized government by bureaucracy is a lot easier, I guess. Pays the same.
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