Posted on 03/08/2005 8:46:17 AM PST by Puppage
sarcasm? I hope so, because if you read the rest of my posts you will see my position on this.
Cheers!
Of course they do. Just because you didn't doesn't mean no one else did it. It's the common approach in my area.
Who pays for the cookies and when? The moms pay up front? They collect when?
No way! They should have impounded that van also (after tagging it with a parking ticket). Who knows what kind of evidence they lost or additional revenue was missed out on.
Yes, this is NYC we are talking about. But have you ever walked the busy sidewalks of NYC? (And if they weren't busy sidewalks, it's a silly place to sell cookies.) Sidewalk vendors need licenses. There are some sort of exemptions for booksellers (1st Amendment issue) and veterans (encoded in law). This guy didn't fall into either category.
That said, the cop should've told the guy to pack up and move along. If the Girl Scout had been there, it's likely (though not guaranteed) that that would have happened.
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I am always suspicious of these stories. i.e. what is left out by ommission.
Did the police ask the guy nicely that he would need a permit and they would not tivcket him if he packed up and left?. And did the father then become a total idiot and cuss them out so the police ticketed him??
Good point.
Bad cop. No doughnut.
Once you are into it though, you dig your heels in when anyone asks uncomfortable questions. It's human nature.Carry on, I'm glad you're glad.
I think we have a winner folks...
Somehow I doubt that this Dad came by his cookies in this manner, if you know what I'm sayin'...
Anyway, a Girl Scout memory just came floating back to me. My mom was the troop leader, found out one of the girls had deliberately gone out selling cookies a day earlier than was allowed (so she'd get more orders and win the silly contest), and decided that the punishment for cheating would be to bar her from coming aong on our camping trip. Girl's mother objected to her darling daughter being punished in any way, and pulled her out of the troop altogether. This was in the sixties, so I guess bad attitudes aren't new.
By even placing themselves in a position to have to explain anything at all over something like this shows an incredible lack of judgment. Some things have no good explanation. This is one of them. If the cops don't have more important things than this to concern themselves with, the community needs to look at a reduction in force.
Das ist verboten!
Isn't there an exemption in the law for fundraisers like this? The girls aren't operating a business, and the cookies are packaged, so there's no food-handling issue here.
oh they are very strict about no one going out before the prescribed date to begin sales. my daughter changed schools and so left the troop, but it was all for the best bc the PC and feminist crap at the upper echelons never sat well with me. the boy scouts do the same thing with the popcorn sales, they come through the neighborhood, and then eventually sell in front of the grocery stores. again, not something you ever see in a neighborhood like a lemonade stand.
Get out the Cookies! (to the voice of "Get out the Bushes!)
Follow the cookies.
The coppers will have to pry the cookie from my cold, dead hand...
With the Boy Scouts, it is popcorn.
They have a annual competition that is put on by the scouts, but it gets out of control.
They develop networks over the years and sell thousands of boxes of cookies in competition for media and bragging rights, plus there is some money in it as far as scouting fees and store credits for BSA merchandise.
It can get pretty vicious...and I would venture a guess that this is the result of a territorial battle between two scout families.
One likely filed complaints against the other.
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