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.
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.
The lemonade was really free, and he had a tip jar. He made more money on tips than he would have selling the stuff...
Some a##hole reported him to the police for peddling without a license...of course, as soon as the police determined he wasn't peddling anything the kid wwas off the hook for the time being....
Then someone complained about the kid's "safety" and the police were back...
The following weekend was his last weekend giving away free lemonade...his parents decided that the harassment wasn't worth whatever money the kid was trying to make...
People these days are just plain mean spirited, and the police are too easily coopted into being the blunt instrument of the mean spirited...