Young girls fight produce stand closure (Mayor sends cops to shut it down)

ABC News ^ | Aug. 20, 2008 | Terry McSweeney

[ellery]

ping!

[cubreporter]

Oh for heaven’s sakes...bring back the common sense and the days of old. These days are fraught with nothing but envy, jealousy, anger, bitterness and you name it. Kids made money any way they could and at least they were working to make their own money or perhaps help out the family. We have too many busy bodies butting their noses into other’s business. Yes, bring back the good old days where the nosy bodies were told off.

[NonValueAdded]

I know where the zucchini should go, much to the mayor’s discomfort.

[NonValueAdded]

"I wish everyone would follow the rules and not be just self-centered," said [Mayor] Manning. Or full of themselves, eh Mr. Mayor?

[annieokie]

It’s just about the city not getting any taxes, that’s all.

[calex59]

"They may start out with a little card-table and selling a couple of things, but then who is to say what else they have. Is all the producemade there, do they make it themselves? Are they going to have eggs and chickens for sale next," said Manning.

Yeah, heaven forbid they should earn a living with free enterprise the way most Americans used to do it before we became regulated to death. Also, I wonder just how do you make produce? Is it hard to make a head of lettuce for instance and what tools would one use to make one?

[Gabz]

Triple Dose ping.......

Not sure if this is Nanny State or Gardening or Mom’s..........or all.......or none.

I report -— you decide :)

[svcw]

Well if they were selling drugs on the corner it would be different....probably left alone, but vegetables - eeeegad.

[GOP_Lady]

AMEN, AMEN, AMEN...

Can I have an AMEN from everyone here, please?

[Concho]

Too bad that there isnt a bunch of you folks in that area that could go get ahold of said mayor and bring him to a little “Come to Jesus” meeting.

[GOP_Lady]

Thanks for the post, dear Gabz! Your daughter can set up a stand. I promise not to report her to the mayor or anyone else. I’ll even be one of her best customers. :-)

[WaterBoard]

Let me guess the political party of the ‘mayor’. The police should have just laughed in his face but the went the JBT route and stole the girls produce which violates the girls 5th Amendment rights.

“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

[GOP_Lady]

If I lived in that area, you can bet I’d be buying something from that stand daily.

[Gabz]

I only wish!!!!!

[freekitty]

Oh good grief. This is one dumb mayor.

[Gabz]

Your daughter can set up a stand. I promise not to report her to the mayor or anyone else. I’ll even be one of her best customers.

There isn't anyone to report her stand or my stand in the particular part of the county where live. As long as she has made it, I have made, or we have grown it, our stands and our signs can not be touched --- in fact I don't even need a license (tax) from the county. LOL!

[Kieri]

Shame on those little girls! They may as well be stealing from Pedro Gonzales and his family! How is he supposed to send all his money back to Mexico if people are buying produce from those little girls?

/ sarc.

[ellery]

Amen!