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.
Most judges would laugh this right out of court, but this is NYC we are talking about, so all bets are off.
Lock 'em up. Can't have unlicensed street vendors popping up all over the place. It's a matter of public safety.
"frightened", "flabbergasted". The choice words of those who can't or won't accept their dose of reality when caught breaking the law. The ticket is probably all of $20, and they're going to make a federal case out of this.
Sorry little girl, but no cookies for you today.
Someone needs to be arrested alright and we can start with the police captain. The fact that a captain was there with the patrol officer means they got a complaint and had time to think it through. I had some idiot steal a check from my office and try to cash it for $10K and even though the police have the name and address of the individual, they don't have time to follow up.
This is astounding to me because there are tables set up in front of a lot of stores here and it's not a problem. But I live in VA so that might explain it.
Bad cop....No doughnut!
We sure can't allow that to happen. No more lemonade stands or the public safety will never be the same. Sound the alarm, we're under siege.
Geez, and here we criticize Cuba for shutting down "unlicensed" street vendors...
One persons $20 fine is another persons victim of a goosestepping captain with too much time on his hands.
I've told the Girl Scouts' mothers around here that they would sell a lot more cookies if they waited until after Lent...
PING!
They should make a Federal case out of this.
Don't feel bad, we have that problem in Texas too. After my house was burglarized, the perp told them where he traded the guns for drugs. The police told us it was a "known drug house", but they never followed up on the lead, haven't heard from them since.
LOL!!! That does explain a lot!
OTOH.......Mayor Bloominidiot is on an all out campaign making NYPD enforce every idiotic law that remains on NYCs books.......including things like sitting on milkcrates on the sidewalk....I kid you not.
As long as the Girl Scouts get the money. The word is out now about all the fraud that goes on with this product.
If it was illegal aliens selling drugs instead of a girl scout selling cookies, I'm sure the cops would have looked the other way.
In NYC if you don't visit the precinct bagman first, you don't get the invisible sales permit for the Girl Scout cookies.
If the father came from that neighborhood, he should have known the precinct rules!
Blue state Boy in Blue busts Brownie buy.
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