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.
Kudos to these young black entrepreneurs!
It seems to me Jerry Seinfeld’s kid got hassled by authorities for running a lemonade stand in New York State as well.
Hopefully, all involved will remember this.
It'll get lots of play on ABCNNBCBS and in the NYT, WaPO, NPR, etc...NOT! We should spread it to every forum we visit, and to some we usually pass upon.
Sometimes good things happen.
They do need to be considerate of others and site their stand to allow good traffic flow.
What a great community relations move by the police. The kids will always have a positive impression of those two officers, and hopefully, police in general. Much needed.
It was undoubtedly a democrat that called the cops.
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