A 'Karen' Calls Cops on a Kid

Jewish World Review ^ | September 30, 2022 | Lenore Skenazy

[Twotone]

A Meridian, Idaho, resident recently called the police department to demand a cop hurry over and apprehend an illegal solicitor — someone who'd knocked on her door to peddle without a permit. As reported by Deputy David Gomez, a School Resource Officer in Idaho City, on his lively Facebook Page, the caller told the cops she was sure the peddler "did not have a solicitor's license."

And as it turns out, she was right.

Because the peddler was a girl of about age 8. She was selling homemade cookies.

The officer arriving on the scene, a newbie, managed to track down the entrepreneurial menace. As he later explained to Deputy Gomez, this wasn't too hard, as she had not gotten too far from the complainant's home. And she was particularly easy to find because she was with her mom and baby sister, who was in a stroller. Said stroller also contained the crumbly contraband in question. In fact, the suspect actually approached the officer and said, "'Mr. Policeman, I am selling home-baked cookies... so that I can afford piano lessons. Would you like to buy some?"

She added that her older sister was a really good pianist, and she wanted to take lessons to be just like her. But her mom thought she should have some skin in the game by helping to pay for the lessons. Hence, the pastry peddling.

At that point, Gomez writes, "Our new officer did what any reasonably seasoned police officer would do in that situation."

He bought all the rest of the cookies.

[anton]

My 8-12 year old crew referred to this type of person as a “stationary object.” The easiest possible target. In our neighborhood, that lady would never be able to own a hose or have an active outside faucet, park her car outside the garage, get a paper delivered, have a working doorbell or many other things people get used to having. When the crew learned that you could write pretty legible messages in the grass on a lawn with a squirt bottle filled with gasoline, I think the whole block got a lot friendlier.

[MD Expat in PA]

I was I think in the 2nd grade, Camp Hill PA. We had several lovely 4 O’clock bushes. I overheard a neighbor telling my mother than those black seeds the plants dropped could be planted to produce more.

So, I go the idea to sell the seeds to our neighbors. I collected the seeds and put them in letter envelopes decorated with my crayon drawings of the flowers and sold them at 5 seeds for a dime or 25 seeds for a quarter. I also had some flowers I picked to show what they would look like if planted.

After canvassing the neighborhood, having a few doors slammed in my face, I managed to come home with about $5.00.

My mother was mortified but my dad thought I showed a lot of entrepreneurial spirit but was told to stop.

A few years later, in the 4th grade I decorated one of those multi-color click pens and my pencils with a fancy frill on top made with construction paper, foil wrapping paper and glitter.

Many of my classmates asked where I got them from, and I told them that I had made them. Then many asked me to make them for them too. I said, sure. “.50 cents up front and another $1 at delivery” and even took some “custom orders” for .50 cents more. I had made around $10 before a teacher caught on to what I was doing and made me stop.

[Codeflier]

That is like betting if the sun rises in the east. About 2/3 of white women are totally unhinged these days.

[TBP]

If I were Karen’ neighbor, I’d call the cops on her every chance I got.