It Happens Again: Police In Ga. Shut Down Girls' Lemonade Stand

Police In Ga. Shut Down Girls' Lemonade Stand

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.

Here we go again. I post this thread a while back, and have now come across yet another absurdity.

In this case the safety issue is understandable, but the girls were selling lemonade trying to pay for a trip to a water park. The costs of permits? $50 a day or $180 a day, to operate a lemonade stand, which is simply a permit for a day and likely does NOT address the safety concerns of the lemonade, but rather the enforcement of the "law," which is simply money to pay for a slip of paper. Now they are doing yard work in the summer heat, girls sweating out labor....

This is getting crazy and outright absurd.

How the lemonade was made?? From water, lemons and sugar! What the girls SHOULD do, is open back up, offer FREE lemonade, and request donations, with a sign that says, "We are not allowed to legally sell lemonade without a $50 a day government permit, so we offer free lemonade with requested donations." I bet they would rake in donations--more money than if they just sold it--and get to go to their water park.

Again, lack of conscience from government/police under the guise of safety and enforcement of "law."

How dare these criminals sell lemonade without a permit!

I am sure some apologists will completely justify the actions, but there is a larger issue here, upon which i have briefly touched.

these pigs are a joke. if they shut down my kids lemonade stand you can be dam sure they will be loosing their jobs. illuminati pigs.

Originally posted by Liquesence
What the girls SHOULD do, is open back up, offer FREE lemonade

But then they'd be in the same situation as the people in Orlando giving free food to homeless people, and they'd just get arrested for that.

No one will justify it - but my guess is someone complained about the stand to force the police on the scene. Most cops I know have more pressing issues to attend to (coffee and doughnuts?) than this.

Now - as to the law? Well, thank your local Mexican cooking truck that rolls around this kind of thing. The reasoning behind the permit is so they can have a written record of who's selling food AND a mechanism in place to regulate who can legally sell food/drink on the streets.

Seems silly ... until that Roving Mexican truck that always moves locations comes around with it's 3 day old "Carne Asada Torta" for sale with a side of food poisoning.

What's really a shame is the person(s) who most likely called in a complaint about the little girls stand.

* P.S. - you're right about the donations thing.

also since when did kids need a licence to sell lemonade? unheard of.

I wonder how many meth labs and dead hookers they had to drive by to get there.

Concerns over safety? HAHAHAHAHA.....What about the safety of the food at grocery stores.

I am emailing this police department.

Yeah damn pigs, how dare they? Down with the elitist illuminati pig slavemasters of the Rothschild/Soros Bilderburg white supremecist Nazi Dynasty!

Originally posted by alfa1

Originally posted by Liquesence
What the girls SHOULD do, is open back up, offer FREE lemonade

But then they'd be in the same situation as the people in Orlando giving free food to homeless people, and they'd just get arrested for that.

I hope that's sarcasm.

It would depend on if there is a local ordinance against feeding the homeless, plus the people getting the free lemonade would not likely be vagrant, but i do not know the laws there. I doubt that Midway, GA had a huge homeless problem anyway, and if they did they would probably scare the girls away anyway.

Originally posted by gncnew
What's really a shame is the person(s) who most likely called in a complaint about the little girls stand.

According to the article, the officer was just "driving by," and happened to see them out selling. Instead of asking to buy some or keep driving, what does the officer do...? "You gotta permit to sell that lemonade?"

I mean, really.

A cope sees a lemonade stand and the first thing that crosses his or her mind is "do they have a permit?"

Geez...

There seems to be a petty tyrant personality type that gravitates toward enforement type of jobs. That, in conjunction with the complete lack of common sense in society today, brings this sort of thing about.

Completely ridiculous.

Since most people have bought into the lie put out by not just the main stream media, but President Obama as well, that the Supreme Court are stripping away peoples rights, (Obama used his State of the Union Address to castigate the Supreme Court over the Citizen's United ruling - a ruling that was in fact an upholding of the right to speech, and the prohibition by the Fist Amendment expressly disallowing Congress from enacting any legislation that would do so), few people are aware of Bond v United States.

Bond v United States is a major game changer for We the People, although in truth what the Supreme Court held was always true and there are people who knew the law all ready and have effectively used that law to have bogus legislative acts struck down, or at the very least, had their own case dismissed for want of subject matter jurisdiction.

What I am saying in simple language is this: These children, if they have parents who really want to teach their children well, should rely upon their parent to challenge the oppressive ordinance, and not stop there. Once the ordinance is successfully challenged, and given the strong language of Bond v United States it is a no brainer there will be a successful challenge, if not at a local level in appeals, the parents should then file criminal charges against the arresting police officers, for simulation of legal process, acting under color of law, malicious prosecution, impersonating a police officer, and most importantly obstruction of justice. All very valid laws that are in place to protect people from this kind of nonsense.

Tragically, if I were to bet on the outcome of this travesty, I would bet that the parents do nothing but complain. Not out of a desire to "go along to get along" but out of sheer ignorance of the law.

A bit of an update on this from a local source..

Lemonade Stand Shut Down, Midway Girls Continue Business Ventures

Evidently "The Coastal Source " must be a local news org - they say they have been a ton of complaints about the cops and support for the kids via Facebook, Twitter, comments, etc.

They contacted the mayor who stood by the cops.

But the story does have a happy ending for the girls after all. The kids wanted to go to the water park. The mom thought it would good for them to learn the value of a dollar by running the lemonade stand. Of course, the cops broke that up so..

While we know Roberts is teaching her daughters responsibility, The Coastal Source wanted to help achieve their dreams and gave four tickets to go to Splash in the Boro.

Well - the sleepy little GA town is getting its share of publicity. You have to wonder if the mayor and police are reconsidering the wisdom of their stance? By now this story is popping up on all the MSM outlets..

reply to post by Frogs


They did not teach these little girls about responsibility, they taught them how to get handouts.

reply to post by Liquesence


really?

On the way to gastion yesterday I saw 3 different drink stands with kids aged from 5-12 trying to either make some chash or have fun or whatever the reason is. but nobody would ever shut them down. Cops around here have better things to do.

I'd say 75% of kids at some point or another from 1950-now have tried to do the same without any trouble from the law at all.

reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux


While I agree that Bond vs. US ruling is important, I fail to understand how its applicable to this situation? The Lemonade stand was shut down by local police for violation of local law. Bond vs. US deals specifically with a person being charged under Federal Statute.

unless im misreading the ruling.

I am sure you will read later that monsanto sues little girls over a lemonade stand for using patented lemons for financial gain.

I'll say this much: if the cops have enough time to do things like that in Georgia, then Georgia needs to get rid of some of its cops.

If you're so bored you're targeting children with lemonade stands, then you have far too much time on your hands.

Originally posted by Xcathdra
reply to post by Jean Paul Zodeaux

 

While I agree that Bond vs. US ruling is important, I fail to understand how its applicable to this situation? The Lemonade stand was shut down by local police for violation of local law. Bond vs. US deals specifically with a person being charged under Federal Statute.

unless im misreading the ruling.

edit on 15-7-2011 by Xcathdra because: (no reason given)

Bond v United States makes clear that individuals have the absolute right to challenge bogus legislation. Also, I believe that you have come to know me well enough, my brother, to know that I have long lamented that so few rely upon the Ninth Amendment to keep government in check. The Supreme Court, in Bond v United States was pointing out that reliance on the 10th Amendment was not necessary, and that people could circumvent the process and rely upon the 9th Amendment, rather than wait and hope their state will act on their behalf.

In that regard, yes it is a ruling speaking to federal statutes. However, The Georgia State Constitution has in their Bill of Rights Paragraph XXVIII, which echoes the 9th Amendment:

Paragraph XXVIII. Enumeration of rights not denial of others. The enumeration of rights herein contained as a part of this Constitution shall not be construed to deny to the people any inherent rights which they may have hitherto enjoyed.

Based upon paragraph XXVIII, and if it were actually necessary to gain a hearing from the Supreme Court, that Court wouldn't ignore their unanimous decision in Bond v. United States in order to hold that the state or municipality has the right to trample over rights that the federal government does not.

It is nice to see you.

Its just more proof that police have nothing to do with the community, or keeping the peace. They are here to give tickets, enforce fines, and ask if people have paid their FEE to be allowed to do anything that should be normal and legal in any sane place.

Making kids pay $50.00 a day to sell lemonade is just a way to teach those kids that they can't do anything without government approval and that police allow it.

There was once a time when the police officer would have stopped and bought a cup and stood around chatting with them for awhile making sure no mean boys came by to steal their money.

Originally posted by Butterbone
Its just more proof that police have nothing to do with the community, or keeping the peace. They are here to give tickets, enforce fines, and ask if people have paid their FEE to be allowed to do anything that should be normal and legal in any sane place.

Making kids pay $50.00 a day to sell lemonade is just a way to teach those kids that they can't do anything without government approval and that police allow it.

also the intimidation factor on the community. they are government forces after all.

police also didn't know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.

The paranoia is delusional. They are unconcerned about our safety, but of the governments.
That money should not go to the Little girls making lemonade on the street corner in Georgia anymore but in the pockets of the people above the law. Right??