Once again, the offish, brain-dead bureaucracy shuts down a little girl's lemonade stand. Isn't it wonderful to have government rules against, well, most everything! I'm surprised the SWAT team wasn't called.
There’s a lot good about Texas, but it is moving towards fascism.
Glenn Beck always says, “Come to Texas for the freedom,”
so it surprises me to see something like this in a small Texas town.
Here in Maine, kids, and even adults sometimes set up roadside table/stands in small towns selling lemonade and all kinds of food products.....the authorities.....politicians and police.....don’t bother them.
I went to a yard sale in a tiny community in a Maine coastal town some years ago. The woman and her kids were also selling homemade donuts, which were some of the best donuts I ever ate.
I don’t care one wit for those McKinney pool goons but THESE kids are genuine victims.
It's called "ice" you dipwads.
Kids, Don’t Mess with Texas.
Later
Did they slam the girls to the ground? Throw a flash bang into the nursery? Tass their invalid Grandmother? Shoot the families dog? No? Well they got off lucky I’d say.
Oh, the horror of those of us who sold un-refrigerated lemonade as kids. Good thing the statute of limitations has run out! :-)
“It is a lemonade stand, but they also have a permit that they are required to get,” Overton Police Chief Clyde Carter said, “besides, these effin little criminals should be glad we didn’t send SWAT! We coulda raided them with an armored personnel carrier and shot that m-f-ing dog of theirs!”
A blue county-city-district, no doubt.
Another big win for “the law is the law” crowd.
WooHoo! The public is safe from lemonade stands!
Yep happens all across the USA. A map showing some of the locations.
http://www.lemonadefreedom.com/2011/07/29/map-of-restrictions-on-kid-run-concession-stands/