Police in Ga. shut down girls' lemonade stand

[Zephie]

MIDWAY, Ga. – Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn't have a business license or the required permits.

Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.

The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.

The girls needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.

http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110715/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lemonade_stand_shut_down

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Glad these dangerous criminals were put out of business. :puke:

[RKP5637]

1. I feel so much safer now. Yet another WTF. n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. Damn, Ma'am: People Must Be Able To Just Leave Their Wallets On the Sidewalk In That Town....

If this is all a police chief can find to do with his time, he needs to resign and take up fishing full-time.

[villager]

3. oh the police chief is already "fishing," good sir. Just not in any productive sense!

;-)

[Horse with no Name]

4. Well it is Amerikkka

and that commie pinko kid was probably cutting into the profits of some corporate overlord.

[Mimosa]

5. $50 a day permits?

The kids probably just hoped they'd make 20 bucks a day.

[theaocp]

6. The water park just lost some customers.

Sad day and the police really need to dig into the cold cases some more.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. "At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars...

...for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote." ~Emo Phillips

[hedgehog]

8. This Midway?

Midway is a city in Liberty County, Georgia, United States. It is a part of the Hinesville-Fort Stewart metropolitan statistical area. The population was 1,100 at the 2000 census.

As of the census<1> of 2000, there were 1,100 people, 331 households, and 241 families residing in the city.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midway,_Georgia

[kristopher]

10. Someone should add this incident to the wiki entry for the town.

[Renew Deal]

9. Why weren't they ticketed?

:silly:

[elocs]

11. I always try &stop for any kids that have a lemonade stand.

I want to do anything I can to encourage them.

[Common Sense Party]

12. Good. Damn capitalist kids.n/t

[Hotler]

13. Fucking shit stains. I bet that police department is..

crooked as the day is long.

[christx30]

14. I blame

the people that keep saying "You know? There ought to be a law."
The fingers of blame are pointing back at us.

[Evasporque]

15. Atlanta is open for business...More GOP "freedom and liberty" nt

[Capn Sunshine]

16. I swear to god, they do this to boost the Paulite's/neocons view that we're overregulated

This will be on every RW radio show Monday used as an example of how negative regualtion is on the free market. They do this shit on purpose. Especially in Georgia. I can see the moring meet " we need to bust a lemonade stand , orders from above, you two, go find one"

[Poiuyt]

17. This just happened in my home town too

http://www.fox11online.com/dpp/news/appleton-pd-shut-down-lemonade-stand

[indurancevile]

20. LOL. Seems evidence for the poster above you's claim that "they do this on purpose".

Busting lemonade stands across the country on FOX News!

[Odin2005]

18. The GOP only cares about "freedumb" for the corporations.

[roomfullofmirrors]

19. and that is what you call "the American free market"

try selling t-shirts in a parking lot and see what you get.