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SWEET LEMONADE KID $LAPPED: BITTER AGENTS WRITE $50 TICKET
NYPost ^ | August 16, 2009

Posted on 08/16/2009 12:20:21 PM PDT by Steelfish

SWEET LEMONADE KID $LAPPED BITTER AGENTS WRITE $50 TICKET

FRANK ROSARIO and TIM PERONE

JUST FINE! Clementine Lee holds the ticket that agents handed her and her dad. Parks boss Adrian Benepe voided it. [Pic in URL]

August 16, 2009

Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.

Clementine Lee, who lives just blocks from the Upper West Side park, had dreamed of opening a lemonade stand since last year and took advantage of yesterday's beautiful weather to set up shop.

"It was such a hot day I figured people would want a cold drink," the aspiring juvenile juice mogul told The Post.

Business was booming for Clementine and her photographer dad, Richard, 49, for the first 20 minutes at the stand on West 73rd Street and Riverside Drive

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
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1 posted on 08/16/2009 12:20:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

I’ve said that this depression will be different in many ways from the last one. One difference is that you won’t have guys selling apples on the corner - because they can’t afford the permit.


2 posted on 08/16/2009 12:21:35 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: RobRoy

*ouch*


3 posted on 08/16/2009 12:22:52 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 207 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Steelfish

One thing you can say about the Woodstock generation, they sure do like issuing those “permits.” I guess it’s a money thing.


4 posted on 08/16/2009 12:24:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (January 20th, 2013)
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To: Steelfish
We can't let Capitalism get a foothold in the youngsters now can we? We have to crush this threat to the State Socialist system!
5 posted on 08/16/2009 12:25:01 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: Steelfish

I live in one of the most affluent counties in the country...supposedly....Montgomery County, Maryland.

Today, on a jaunt to Rockville, we noticed that on virtually every busy intersection, there are panhandlers (PLURAL) camped out or walking down the island holding their hard-luck signs looking for money from drivers sitting in the air-conditioned cars.

Some intersections have all four directions occupied with men, women and their children.

It’s sad AND disgusting. Very conflicting.


6 posted on 08/16/2009 12:28:22 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Steelfish

3 agents to hassle a 10 year old. there’s that ‘ole government efficiency Obama keeps talking about.


7 posted on 08/16/2009 12:29:05 PM PDT by wny
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To: DCPatriot

Hope and change. Gotta love it.


8 posted on 08/16/2009 12:30:30 PM PDT by wny
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To: Mad Dawgg

Yep that little girl is a threat to the social order. She’s obviously thinking about business ideas, and can’t understand how she was breaking the law. She’s going to be infected with capitalistic thinking, and we can’t have that in our young people. (sarcasm)

And to think that she lives in a place which is very very liberal. And even in a liberal place, she had these ideas.


9 posted on 08/16/2009 12:33:02 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: wny

Indeed. Lay off two of those three and you’d have more than enough money to spot permits for the few kids energetic enough to run a stand.


10 posted on 08/16/2009 12:34:33 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Why Does Obama Want Health Care in 4 Weeks When it Took Him 6 Months to Pick a Dog?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>One thing you can say about the Woodstock generation, they sure do like issuing those “permits.” I guess it’s a money thing.<<

I understand a building permit in the King county area (Seattle) runs around $23,000 to $27,000 now. When we built our family’s home in 1967 our building permit cost approximately $7.50.

There is a bit more than inflation going on here. ;)


11 posted on 08/16/2009 12:35:09 PM PDT by RobRoy (This too will pass. But it will hurt like a you know what.)
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To: wny

Some are legitimate....in a sense that you can see they are physically handicapped with missing limbs.

Others just claim to be veterans having hard luck.

And others just look like healthy beggars.

Very sad state...pun intended.


12 posted on 08/16/2009 12:35:09 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

They go where the money is.


13 posted on 08/16/2009 12:37:36 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: FlingWingFlyer
One thing you can say about the Woodstock generation, they sure do like issuing those “permits.” I guess it’s a money thing.

The real men of that generation were fighting in Vietnam. The ex hippies who run the dimocrap party have no moral authority, nor do they possess one ounce of common sense. Today, the inmates are running the asylum.

14 posted on 08/16/2009 12:37:49 PM PDT by OldCorps
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To: Steelfish

Why do folks go postal?
Let me count the ways...
$50 ticket for lemonade,
Next time I blow you aways


15 posted on 08/16/2009 1:24:31 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: Steelfish

No one got pictures of these clown “officials?” Government thugs and bureaucrats will not be stopped until actual Americans begin to stand up and tell them to go to hell. And then provide directions!!


16 posted on 08/16/2009 1:37:13 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: DCPatriot

Obama’s America! But don’t expect the MSM to pick up on this and let the public know of the increased homelessness and desperation.


17 posted on 08/16/2009 2:19:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
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I dunno. I think I'm going to have to be the contrarian here.

What would prevent some nutty Islamofascist supporter using his cute kid - or his neighbor's cute kid -to dispense poison to everybody in Central Park?

By the time everybody figured out the source of the poison, the kid would be long gone.

But if the kid had been required to pull a permit & at least provide some documentated identification (you know, like a long form Birth Certificate,lol!) before she could sell drinks or food to people in the park, there would at least be a place to start an investigation if people starting dropping dead.

And what if it were just an unintentional poisoning - e coli or salmonella contamination or something else, say. There'd be no way for health officials to track the source down without a permitting process which is strictly adhered to equally across the board with no favortisim for cute kids or crazed terrorists.

If we were to make it optional to pull a permit to sell food to the public in Central Park, we sumultaneously open a Pandora's Box of risk to the public.

I can't help but suspect that if we were reading here about hundreds of people becoming deathly ill from a spoiled batch of lemonade because food handling protocols had not been scrupulously followed that we'd all be screaming for public health officials heads here, no?

18 posted on 08/16/2009 2:27:46 PM PDT by leilani
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To: leilani

You make a good case but it is based on the supposition that this would be a possible way for mass murder. I am not sure that hundreds flocks to Lemonade stands.

But the whole point of course it to make sure that the enforcement commissars use common sense and reasonable discretion. They didn’t do that here. The notion that Islamofascists would use a 10-year old kid for mass poisoning is the same reason the TSA gives for a comprehensive search of grandmas in wheelchairs.


19 posted on 08/16/2009 2:38:01 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Yeah....but I’m skeptical if all of them are truly homeless.

Maybe just trying to keep the electric on and gas in the car.


20 posted on 08/16/2009 2:42:22 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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