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Title: Cops Raid Little Girls’ “Illegal” Lemonade Stand, Shut it Down for Operating Without a Permit
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Free Thought Project/KLTV
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... e-stand-shut-operating-permit/
Published: Jun 10, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-06-10 20:43:55 by Deckard
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Views: 35564
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Tyler, TX — Last week, police in Texas heroically saved the town from likes of two young girls who attempted to open a black market lemonade stand. The girls, one 7-year-old and one 8-year-old, dared to try to raise money to buy a Father’s day present for their dad by setting up a lemonade stand in their neighborhood. Andria and Zoey Green told ABC affiliate KLTV they were trying to raise about $100 for a Father’s Day present. They wanted to take him to Splash Kingdom. Over the weekend, the two young entrepreneurs took to the streets with their delicious batch of homemade lemonade and began to provide willing customers with their product. Only one hour into their business endeavour, these girls had raised 25% of their goal. However, their cash cow would be shut down not long after it started. Overton police chief Clyde Carter showed up along with the city code enforcer and shutdown their criminal operation. The girls had violated Texas House Bill 970, or the Texas Baker’s Bill, which does not allow the sale of food that needs time or temperature control to prevent it from spoiling. Since the lemonade would eventually grow mold after being left out for days, police said they needed an inspection from the health department and a permit to sell it and deemed their operation “illegal.” The cost of the permit is $150 dollars. “It is a lemonade stand, but they also have a permit that they are required to get,” Chief Carter said. “I think that’s ridiculous. I think they’re 7 and 8, and they’re just trying to make money for their own cause,” said Sandi Evans, the girls’ mother. The most absurd aspect of this ordeal is that the police know it’s a ridiculous law. However, they said ridiculous or not, it’s the law and they’ll keep enforcing it. “We have to follow by the state health guidelines,” said Carter. “They have to have a permit if they’re going to do the lemonade stands.” Police officers can certainly use discretion and choose not to “enforce” this law for use in such an asinine application. The fact that these girls had their good intentions ruined by those who claim to protect them speaks to the level of discontent with law enforcement in America today. The heartening side to this story is that these young girls are now learning to bypass this tyrannical system of bureaucratic nonsense. The girls said they will be setting up their lemonade stand again this weekend. Instead of selling it though, they will be giving it away, but they will gladly be accepting donations. Hopefully next week, we aren’t reading the story of these two Texas girls being raided by the IRS for tax evasion on their lemonade donations. But in today’s police state USA, it would be entirely expected. The most absurd aspect of this ordeal is that the police know it’s a ridiculous law. However, they said ridiculous or not, it’s the law and they’ll keep enforcing it. "Just following orders" Hmmm, where have I heard that before? Oh - now I remember. 
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#58. To: Stoner (#57)
You mean enforcing the law as written? Yeah. What were they thinking? Perhaps you're saying the law should have been written to exclude a certain class of people? Hmmmm. Would that be constitutional? Would that be fair? It's very possible that some commercial vendor called the police chief and complained -- perhaps a commercial vendor who was ticketed for not having a license. Now what? Should the police chief ignore the call, subjecting the city to a discrimination lawsuit? Should the police chief, on his own, make an exception in this case? Tell me. What would you do?
I am LOLAY Barney !!
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Yeah. Why did I ask? No way you would answer that with something constructive.
OK Barney. I would have been a man with a brain, told someone to grow up. It was just a couple of little girls, and I would have concentrated my time & attention by looking for real bad guys that presented potential harm to the citizens. Bad guys such as thugs, robbers, murderers, rapists, drug dealers, thieves, etc, etc, etc. I would have protected the citizens, and the law. I would not have given my department, and LEO's in general a black eye, and made the Department the laughing stock of the state, and the entire LEO community of the courtry. Hell, I would have visited their stand and bought a glass, then told them to have a nice day, and continued patrol looking for real crime! I guess in this town, it was easier for this bunch of Barneys to go after two 8 year old little girls, oooh scarey oooh !, than to go after real bad guys. If that is all they have to do, that city / town / village does not need a PD. A total waste of funds! I know you don't get that. Si vis pacem, para bellum
What better way to send a message to the city council to write sensible laws so his officers are not wasting their time? Brilliant move by the police chief!
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight !!! ROFLMAO!!!! LOL ! Great peace of fantasy BS grabbing at straws!!!! LOL!!! The department still has two big black eyes, and still is the laughing stock of the state. In the states LEO circles, their department is the butt of a lot of jokes, LOL !!! Still LOLAY !!!! Si vis pacem, para bellum
In Tyler Texas of all places. One of the most conservative Christian Texan places. Local conservative radio here in Texas mentioned the local gov waived the traveling merchant vendor fee but could not waive the health inspection requirement. Which means local folks and their elected councilmen probably did not expect anyone to push/enforce requiring a kid's lemonade stand to have a health permit. Plain stupid. We used to run these stands as kids to make enough money to do fun things in the summer. Here's where a little community common sense comes in. If LE felt they had to 'enforce' 7 year old girls to comply with the letter of the law, then all they had to do was tell the parents to dump out the lemonade at the end of the day. Problem solved. This law is for those truck vendors who keep their stuff in the truck for days without recycling the beverages and food. I am sure the good citizens of Tyler Texas will fix this. One of the best places to visit during Texas "spring" to view the roses and wild flowers. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Come on man, of course they wanted to do something with their dad which they like to do too:) Hey I got a Yellow Lab for my birthday almost 10 years ago by my then very young sons....who really wanted a dog:) I was still in mourning over my faithful Beagle and wanted to wait another year or so. So I got this Yellow Lab for my birthday:) Best birthday gift ever. Sometimes our kids know we men, their dads, are still just kids at heart. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
I bet the police are not shutting down lemonade stands in Baltimore and Ferguson this summer... Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
I keep waiting for the Breaking News gong to sound on Fox News Channel, warning the Great Unwashed about the Tyler Texas Lemonade Gestapo. FNC just loves these lemonade-lasses-tased-by-jackboots-run-amok stories.
Good points and true. When I was at the command and staff college in KS something similar and not as innocent as a lemonade stand faced the same local merchant onslaught. 5 married Majors decided they did not want to uproot their family and PCS them for a one year assignment. So they all rented and roomed at a farm house near post. They turned the barn into a man cave with electronics, TVs with ball games on all the time. They built a bar and stocked out of their pocket. Soon it became a hang out for their friends and they hosted BBQs and parties there. They served drinks at these gatherings and had a 'tip jar' for those that wanted to contribute. Then folks they did not know started showing up and word got back to town that there was a 'speak easy' operating at the farm. The local saloon tipped off the DA and police and added some lies like they were hosting sex parties with prostitutes and drugs. So they raided the place and arrested some of the renters. Turns out three of the 5 were high powered up and coming Army JAG lawyers. They quickly got a local bubba lawyer and paid a fine and got a slap on the wrist. The amazing part of this is that although the deputy post commander found out, the post commander (three star) never found out...Until graduation day...that was a most uncomfortable day for them. But given they paid their dues to society already and the 'arrest' was more of a bring you in for questioning, there was not much he could do. The local DA tried to get these guys on a 1919 temperance law. Amazing. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Hate to say it but given the time of year with coaching baseball and the hours at work recently I have not been following much of FNC or any news source other than here and on the net. Frankly it is quite liberating not hearing O'Reilly and Hannity bloviating every night:) Megan Kelly is becoming the Eva Braun for the hyper sexualized, pro gay, penthouse with Long Island McMansion East Coast wealthy who call themselves conservatives. You don't realize how shallow that station is until you take a break from it. Don't get me wrong, MSNBC and all the rest are horrible and Fox is the best of them all...but that is not saying much. I do like Greta's show. She still asks pols some uncomfortable questions. But they have her on when most folks are eating dinner or just ate dinner and are doing something else. Putting Megan Kelly in that evening line up really has turned out to be a drag. Most men watch that airhead's show to see how much cleavage she will reveal. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Why LE? I think the city police officers work for the Mayor and Town Council. That be the case, then why lay this “exception to enforce decision” on the backs of LE? Lay it where it belongs….lay it in the laps of the Mayor and Council Members. Furthermore, if anyone is going to get pissed off at someone for stopping kids from operating lemonade stands, then get pissed off at the Mayor and Council Members. They are the head honchos, the big dogs in charge, the bosses…. and the responsible individuals who control the actions by the city police officers. Make sense?
You know, when I think about this, it is so damn absurd. They will go after these little girls for not having a permit but nobody will dare mess with bake sales on college campuses that also have no permit to sell their goodies either!
Somewhat. However, cops can choose to not go to a lemonade stand call as it is not a priority manner. Just like the cops ignore all the calls on the 4th of July where I live of people complaining of fireworks. They nicely tell the residents it's the 4th of July but don't worry we will send a car to check it out. They drive by the neighborhoods but don't stop. That seems to be a sane approach to kids who are trying to make a little money. It seems to me to be the Pharisee effect. The Pharisees complained Jesus Christ healed on the Sabbath. They took the 'no work' to an extreme meaning not even doing good. Christ rebuked them for it. Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
I remember when my sister & I would do that as kids. We lived next door to one of the city Fire Stations. The firemen, and city cops were some of our best customers. Times sure have changed, and not for the best, no sir. Si vis pacem, para bellum
Selective enforcement. Instead, I say the Mayor and City Council should make exceptions for the lemonade stands and write the exceptions into the code.
Watch the video. The cop has his gun out and his knee in the back of a 14 year girl in a bathing suit. Watched. Do you know the definition of "pulling a gun"?? In any context of honest testimony, your hyperbolic hysteria is absolute baloney. The cop did NOT "pull" a gun "14 year old girls in a bathing suits" -- much less even a SINGLE "girl in a bathing suit." The cop unholstered his gun ONLY when two black teens to the right edge of his periphery vision made moves and a gesture that clearly threatened his personal space. You've fallen prey to the leftist media's shameless power of suggestion.
Yes it is, in spades. And naturally, the usual suspects jump in and defend this at all costs. And every one wonders why respect for LEO's is so low. Si vis pacem, para bellum
Yes. If you support nit-picking bullying and cowardice masquerading as "law enforcement." If anyone is going to get pissed off at someone for stopping kids from operating lemonade stands, then get pissed off at the Mayor and Council Members. They are the head honchos, the big dogs in charge, the bosses…. and the responsible individuals who control the actions by the city police officers. Why don't you just blame the Governor or President...OR, a Pastor?
Good find, but Martin Luther King had a similar quote, as did Henry David Thoreau and several others. The point is that the politicians and bureaucrats seems to have lost all common sense. Are we just going to sit here and take it because it's "the law"? That may have been the prudent approach in Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union, but not in America.
Times sure have changed, and not for the best, no sir. Yup. It's so sad. Those guys were our neighbors and our friends. I'm just surprised SWAT wasn't dispatched to "the scene of the crime" in this case. The acid from lemon is said to be very caustic, a potential "dirty bomb" so to speak.
+100. My very first thought.
People pick and choose all of the time. Right NOW, the cops in Baltimore have chosen not to make much of an effort, so crime is up and arrests are down. People pick and choose all of the time, including cops.
Funny how that works, huh?
Of course he and misterwhite would have obeyed the LAW because it was the LAW. ditto if they had lived in the Soviet Union -- they would have sent all of the street entrepreneurs to the gulag. They have an un-American view of the law.
Time well spent :-) Speaking of kids' baseball and this issue, do you remember as a LL'er going out in uniform with a container, and knocking on doors and apts for "contributions to help support" you local league? Needless to say (for several reasons) that'd be impossible these days. The least of which would be grumpy old, officious fascists who'd call the police, complaining that "I saw no ID or license for charities was displayed by the brats who barged into my gated communitah, then knocked at my door looking for fifty cents."
LOL. Like anybody we know? Si vis pacem, para bellum
We did not go door to door for the league. Parents paid for the league and sometimes that meant chores and using your own allowance---You only got an allowance back then by DOING things:) Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1-2)
Yukon liked this word?
You forgot to mention Paultards. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
LOL. Like anybody we know? One lives in Arizona. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Yeah, I believe he / she did. I have discovered it can be useful & applicable with some posters here, so I am borrowing it. Si vis pacem, para bellum
I tried to explain that to Mr White ( Barney )earlier, but he did not buy it. It was too much for his brain to comprehend. Si vis pacem, para bellum
Or, at least claims to. Si vis pacem, para bellum
The 14 year old girl in the bathing suit was just standing in a group of friends when the cop grabbed her and threw her to the ground. Watch the video -- before this, the girl kept moving away from the rest of the action. She wasn't threatening anyone. So, what did she do wrong? Oh, maybe the cop didn't like what she had to say. Tough shit.. We have something called the First Amendment that let's her say whatever she wants. The cop threw her to the ground. As as result of the cop's action, two of her friends ran passed the cop and one reached out to touch him. The cop pulled his gun and luckily two of his buddies stepped in to stop him or it would have been a bloody mess. Then the cop shoved his knee in the little girl's back. After he had her subdued he put the gun away. So yes, he had a gun pulled on a 14 year old girl in a bathing suit laying on the ground with his knee in her back. What did this girl do to deserve this??? Even the Police Chief says that the cop was out of control. How anyone can excuse his behavior is beyond me.
Or even any crack stands ran by bigger girls. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
I love a story with a happy ending. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Not if the mayor or the Police Chief tells them to do it. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
What they decided to do was follow the orders of their police chief who was following the orders of the mayor because they knew if they didn't they would be fired. Arguing the merits and morality of following the orders to keep a job is a separate argument. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
: ) There is something way too smug about Eva.
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#59. To: misterwhite (#58)
#60. To: Stoner (#59)
#61. To: misterwhite (#60)
" No way you would answer that with something constructive. "
#62. To: Stoner (#61)
#63. To: misterwhite (#62)
" Brilliant move by the police chief! "
#64. To: Deckard, liberator, TooConservative (#0)
(Edited)
Tyler, TX — Last week, police in Texas heroically saved the town from likes of two young girls who attempted to open a black market lemonade stand. The girls, one 7-year-old and one 8-year-old, dared to try to raise money to buy a Father’s day present for their dad by setting up a lemonade stand in their neighborhood.
#65. To: TooConservative (#4)
They wanted to go to the waterpark themselves.
#66. To: sneakypete, liberator, TooConservative (#7)
Seems like we read news stories at least once a year about some cops somewhere shutting down some little girl's lemonade stand.
#67. To: redleghunter (#65)
(Edited)
I'm sure if the folks of Flint knew a lot more, they may have bragged they had such training going on to support our efforts overseas.
#68. To: sneakypete, liberator, TooConservative, GarySpFc (#8)
Not really. What usually happens is some asshat that runs a nearby business sellign soft drinks,tea,and maybe even lemonade will rat the kids out by filing a formal complaint to the city about how THEY had to buy a business permit so the kids should get one,too. Which means they would have to provide public rest rooms,health inspectors,get a tax stamp,etc,etc,etc.
#69. To: TooConservative (#67)
FNC just loves these lemonade-lasses-tased-by-jackboots-run-amok stories.
#70. To: redleghunter (#64)
If LE felt they had to 'enforce' 7 year old girls to comply with the letter of the law...
#71. To: cranko (#1)
The cops have been busting bake sales too.
#72. To: Gatlin (#70)
Make sense?
#73. To: redleghunter (#64)
" Plain stupid. We used to run these stands as kids to make enough money to do fun things in the summer. "
#74. To: redleghunter (#72)
(Edited)
#75. To: cranko, Abcdefg (#10)
("pulling guns on 14 year old girls in bathing suits")
#76. To: goldilucky (#71)
" You know, when I think about this, it is so damn absurd. "
#77. To: Gatlin, redleghunter (#70)
Make sense?
#78. To: Gatlin (#18)
#79. To: Stoner, redleghunter (#73)
The firemen, and city cops were some of our best customers.
#80. To: redleghunter (#72)
It seems to me to be the Pharisee effect. The Pharisees complained Jesus Christ healed on the Sabbath. They took the 'no work' to an extreme meaning not even doing good. Christ rebuked them for it.
#81. To: Gatlin (#29)
But I don't see where and how a police officer gets to pick and choose which laws to enforce and which not to.
#82. To: redleghunter, Gatlin (#66)
I bet the police are not shutting down lemonade stands in Baltimore and Ferguson this summer...
#83. To: A Pole (#34)
If you lived in 1943 Germany would you disobey the law?! On what ground?
#84. To: redleghunter (#69)
Hate to say it but given the time of year with coaching baseball and the hours at work recently I have not been following much of FNC or any news source other than here and on the net.
#85. To: Liberator (#84)
" grumpy old, officious fascists who'd call the police, complaining that "I saw no ID or license for charities was displayed by the brats who barged into my gated communitah, then knocked at my door looking for fifty cents."
#86. To: Liberator (#84)
Speaking of kids' baseball and this issue, do you remember as a LL'er going out in uniform with a container, and knocking on doors and apts for "contributions to help support" you local league?
#87. To: Stoner (#63)
LOLAY
#88. To: Liberator (#77)
Why don't you just blame the Governor or President...OR, a Pastor?
#89. To: Stoner (#85)
" grumpy old, officious fascists who'd call the police, complaining that "I saw no ID or license for charities was displayed by the brats who barged into my gated communitah, then knocked at my door looking for fifty cents."
#90. To: A Pole (#87)
" Yukon liked this word? "
#91. To: cranko (#78)
" point is that the politicians and bureaucrats seems to have lost all common sense. "
#92. To: CZ82 (#89)
" One lives in Arizona. "
#93. To: misterwhite, gatlin, decker (#30)
(Edited)
#94. To: redleghunter (#66)
I bet the police are not shutting down lemonade stands in Baltimore and Ferguson this summer...
#95. To: redleghunter (#68)
So they raided the place and arrested some of the renters. Turns out three of the 5 were high powered up and coming Army JAG lawyers.
#96. To: redleghunter (#72)
cops can choose to not go to a lemonade stand call as it is not a priority manner.
#97. To: cranko (#81)
Right NOW, the cops in Baltimore have chosen not to make much of an effort, so crime is up and arrests are down.
#98. To: redleghunter (#69)
Megan Kelly is becoming the Eva Braun for the hyper sexualized, pro gay, penthouse with Long Island McMansion East Coast wealthy who call themselves conservatives.
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