Posted on 03/08/2005 8:46:17 AM PST by Puppage
NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter.
Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade.
At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled up to their van as they were unloading cookies. Louis said the captain from the 94th Precinct ticketed him for selling cookies without a license.
The NYPD said the man and his daughter were not delivering the cookies, but instead were selling the cookies from a table they had set up on the street.
The child's grandmother, who was in the van, said her granddaughter was frightened by the police and the girl's father was flabbergasted.
I believe that in NYC, only counterfeit cookies can be sold without a license.
Yes, but that's in Texas. I'm sure in NYC the police have more than enough time to focus on shutting down Girl Scout cookie selling activities without anything else being neglected. (snerk snerk)
It's got nothing to do with anything other than Bloominidiots take over of the city - he insists that every single picky iota law ever put on the books in the Big Apple be enforced.
I'm so glad I got out of there back when it was still a normal city.
The only laws that seem to be enforced are the ones which will create revenue for whatever government is involved.
When cookies are outlawed, only outlaws will have cookies.
For every brave cop who risked their life on 9/11 there is an idiot cop.
More likely, some neighborhorhood politician didn't like the idea of this Long Island girl cashing in on his daughter's cookie territory, so he called the cops and told the Precinct Captain to do something or he would make sure the Captain was reassigned to parade duty on Staten Island.
I'll be waiting for the argument from the police that there is a "zero tolerance" policy on code enforcement
After they got their cut? Maybe that's the problem here. No free GS cookies for the cops.
They need to get a stiff fine for this. ; )
As a former BSA Scout Master I will put it this way then, you take your Scout son out to sell popcorn, and you plop your fat A** in front of Town Hall without a permit and the cops come and ticket you. What example did you set for your son?
As an adult, you have the responsibility to teach your scout the rules and that includes following whatever laws are on the books. If they require a permit in certain areas, then get the damn permit. If there are no laws against going door to door, then by all means, do that.
Point is, how does a 13 yr old become "frightened" from getting a lesson in ethics, the rule of law, and being obedient?
This is more than maybe a $20 ticket. It means NY finest are our of touch with what the Girl Scouts are about. Typical of a liberal State. This may put the brakes of future Girl Scout sales. That's what hurts. California next. I'll never understand why liberals are against the Girl and Boy Scouts.
Zero tolerance = zero thinking.
When you have rules and regulations governing every little detail in life, then no thought is ever required. Common sense goes out the window.
When this happens, the SPIRIT of the law is ignored.
Often times, the SPIRIT of the law is more important than the letter of the law.
Typical of the state that elected Hitlary.
Throw the father in jail and collect sales tax on all sales of cookies!
NY, NY, what a hell of a town.
What's the word on all the fraud associated with girl scout cookies? I actually researched the breakdown and it was fairer than most any other I've seen. Do you think someone's out there baking counterfeit cookies for $2 a box and then selling out of vans for $3.50? I hadn't heard.
If the mothers were real smart, they would take a pass on the Girl Scout cookies and bake their own, sell them for less and give the profit to the Girl Scouts, who would get much more money. The thing has gotten to be a scam.
Last year it came to light that people had conveniently "forgotten" to turn in the money.
Yep, we have that problem here in my state, too.
I was hit by a drunk driver, and she drove off. I followed her to a parking lot (outside of a bar, go figure), boxed in her car so she couldn't leave, and called the cops. She begged me not to call them, saying, "If I get another (another???) DUI, I'll go to jail!" Tough nuts, Sweetie, I thought. After learning that I called the cops, she left the scene.
The cops came, took a report, called her home, threatened her with jail, and never arrested her. They also refused to return my phone calls demanded that they prosecute her and get her off of the streets. @$$holes.
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