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Police called to shut down kids’ lemonade stand buy drinks instead
The Shreveport Times ^ | 8/29/2019 | Whitney Glover

Posted on 08/29/2019 4:40:37 AM PDT by Skooz

August 29, 2019 at 4:17 AM CDT - Updated August 29 at 5:25 AM

NEWBURGH, N.Y.- About an hour and a half after a group of children in New York decided to sell lemonade during rush hour, police showed up after receiving a call, possibly complaining about traffic caused by the stand.

Mother Whitney Glover says she helped some kids in the Newburgh, N.Y., area put up a lemonade stand Monday.

"We were probably out there about an hour and a half, when I noticed the cop car pull up,” Glover said.

An unidentified person saw the group selling lemonade and, instead of stopping for a cup, called the police.

"His first words were, 'Can you believe someone called the cops on kids selling lemonade?'" Glover said.

Officers Clayton Dubois and Thomas O’Connell say the kids weren’t doing anything wrong, but the stand was creating some traffic.

"Sometimes when people stopped in the middle of the road to get a cup, the cars behind would beep and make nasty faces,” said another adult helping with the stand.

The officers bought cups of lemonade and posed for pictures with the kids.

"They could’ve shut it down. A lot of cops probably wouldn’t have handled it that way, but [they] handled it really well,” she said.

Glover posted about the incident on Facebook, calling the person who complained “bitter.” Since then, she says dozens of customers have stopped by, and the kids made hundreds of dollars in three days.

"I wasn’t expecting it to become the way it did. It was more of an appreciation and a thank you to the police officers,” she said.

August 29, 2019 at 4:17 AM CDT - Updated August 29 at 5:25 AM NEWBURGH, N.Y. (News 12/CNN) - About an hour and a half after a group of children in New York decided to sell lemonade during rush hour, police showed up after receiving a call, possibly complaining about traffic caused by the stand.

Mother Whitney Glover says she helped some kids in the Newburgh, N.Y., area put up a lemonade stand Monday.

Officers Clayton Dubois and Thomas O’Connell say the kids weren’t doing anything wrong, but the stand was creating some traffic. Officers Clayton Dubois and Thomas O’Connell say the kids weren’t doing anything wrong, but the stand was creating some traffic. (Source: Whitney Glover/News 12 Westchester/CNN) "We were probably out there about an hour and a half, when I noticed the cop car pull up,” Glover said.

An unidentified person saw the group selling lemonade and, instead of stopping for a cup, called the police.

"His first words were, 'Can you believe someone called the cops on kids selling lemonade?'" Glover said.

Officers Clayton Dubois and Thomas O’Connell say the kids weren’t doing anything wrong, but the stand was creating some traffic.

"Sometimes when people stopped in the middle of the road to get a cup, the cars behind would beep and make nasty faces,” said another adult helping with the stand.

The officers bought cups of lemonade and posed for pictures with the kids.

"They could’ve shut it down. A lot of cops probably wouldn’t have handled it that way, but [they] handled it really well,” she said.

Glover posted about the incident on Facebook, calling the person who complained “bitter.” Since then, she says dozens of customers have stopped by, and the kids made hundreds of dollars in three days.

"I wasn’t expecting it to become the way it did. It was more of an appreciation and a thank you to the police officers,” she said.

The kids intend to keep selling lemonade until they return to school next week.


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: lemonade; lemonadestand
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To: redfreedom

I think it’s likely that everyone in the area is a Democrat.


21 posted on 08/29/2019 5:10:31 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman)
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To: HighSierra5

Last time I was in NYC - which admittedly was probably back in 2003 or 2004 - it was fairly common for people to stop in one of the traffic lanes briefly. If there’s curbside parking, it is generally going to be full. So if you wanted a paper from a news stand, in/out of a taxi, etc. people would just stop. Other drivers would just squeeze by. Say what you will about NY drivers, to me they are champs at close-in precision driving, routinely passing through gaps with just a few inches of clearance.


22 posted on 08/29/2019 5:12:57 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: Skooz
the kids weren’t doing anything wrong

Oh yes they were. They tried to engage in free enterprise to undermine the administrative deep state and their comrades in arms the socialist all in one blow all while threatening their own future dependency on the state.

23 posted on 08/29/2019 5:16:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: VastRWCon

Before all the looking at everything through racist lens that the liberals do now, I would have never thought what you posted. But I did. They are dividing us racially.


24 posted on 08/29/2019 5:38:07 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Skooz

Outstanding!

Great post, BTW.


25 posted on 08/29/2019 5:38:22 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Skooz

Well done! MSM will never report this though.


26 posted on 08/29/2019 5:39:21 AM PDT by southernindymom
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To: Skooz

Nice ..very nice...the person who called the police needs a heart!!


27 posted on 08/29/2019 5:39:22 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Skooz

I can not resist stopping at a kids lemonade stand, as long as it is the kids selling. If it looks like the Mom is going to take over the sale, I move on. I buy whatever they are offering then pour it out the window once I have turned the corner. ;o)


28 posted on 08/29/2019 5:40:15 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: AndyJackson

They were engaged in free enterprise, therefore, they are junior kulaks. Send them to the camps! Their parents as well for corrupting them with such petit bourgeois values! 10 ruble notes for all of them.


29 posted on 08/29/2019 5:44:40 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: super7man

Many years ago (summer 1984) I was a roofer.

At the end of one long, hot, Louisiana August day on the roof, the crew descended the ladders to head home. Just so happens the kids who lived in the house we were roofing set up a lemonade stand in the front yard.

The grimy, exhausted crew swarmed the stand, buying every cup. The kids had to rush inside and make several more batches.

Those kids were printing money that day.

I remember buying several cups myself. Nothing ever tasted better than that cold lemonade on that sweltering day.


30 posted on 08/29/2019 5:50:47 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Skooz

Kids should make a donation to local PBA.


31 posted on 08/29/2019 5:58:28 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (It's Fredomania at the MSM)
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To: Tax-chick
I hope the “unidentified person” learned something, but probably not.

Probably akin to "Ben Weaver" on the old Andy Griffith show


32 posted on 08/29/2019 6:10:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: American in Israel

Cute kids. Thoughtful photo-op.


33 posted on 08/29/2019 6:13:05 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: VastRWCon

I wonder if the kids were white would the police have been called.


34 posted on 08/29/2019 6:15:15 AM PDT by dp0622 (Bad, bad company PeoTill the day I die.)
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To: cuban leaf
You’re absolutely correct. There’s a difference between sending the police to shut down a lemonade stand on a busy road after a motorist called to complain about it and sending them to shut it down over an alleged violation of some stupid bureaucratic rule.
35 posted on 08/29/2019 6:19:31 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: American in Israel

Kudos to the Cops.


36 posted on 08/29/2019 6:21:06 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: American in Israel

OH, noes!!! White, racisssss cops, beating black kids for selling lemonade, wait...


37 posted on 08/29/2019 6:51:00 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: American in Israel

<img src="https://www.ksla.com/resizer/...raycom.s3.amazonaws.com/ public/MPND4W5YF5HFDHKDMFKVKEIK6Q.JPG" width=60%>

Now, thanks to the width= percentage modifier, this image will adapt and look good no matter the screen size or resolution.

38 posted on 08/29/2019 6:56:16 AM PDT by upchuck (If democrats would stop shooting people gun violence would drop by 90% ~ h/t Mr K.)
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To: American in Israel

Oh, no. More black kids shot by white cops.

Okay, it was with a camera and the cop were shot too, but that won’t stop the lame stream media :-)


39 posted on 08/29/2019 7:04:55 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Skooz

A major problem for law enforcement is gaining the trust of minority communities.

Hopefully,al involved will remember this.


40 posted on 08/29/2019 7:06:15 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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