Little Girls Tangle With the Man Over Lemonade Stand : by Tad Cronn

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Little Girls Tangle With the Man Over Lemonade Stand : by Tad Cronn

from Doofiegirl on 06/12/2015 06:22 PM

Hard work and entrepreneurial industriousness are the key to success in America.

Unfortunately, they're also the key to harassment by police and bureaucrats, and possibly a citation with a fine.

That's what two young ladies learned in Overton, Texas, when they thought to enter the competitive world of concession operations by selling generously sized cups of lemonade for 50 cents and bags of homemade kettle corn for $1.

The Green Girls Lemonade Stand, as their sign says, no doubt was a threat to local purveyors of fast food, soda pop and the like, so the law pounced in protection of its local chamber of commerce.

The Overton Police Department released a video showing a police officer pulling over near the stand and asking the young ladies to get their mother outside pronto. http://www.kltv.com/Clip/11586369/police-video-shows-officer-questioning-about-lemonade-stand-permit

Once mom showed up, the police interrogation began.

Officer: "You get a permit with the city to serve this?"

Mom: "I didn't know I had to."

Officer: "Yes ma'am."

Mom: "Really? For a lemonade stand? I had no clue."

Officer: "Yes ma'am."

Mom: "I knew we had to for garage sales and stuff like that, but I didn't know little kids had to for a lemonade stand."

Officer: "We just have to enforce it."

http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/06/little-girls-tangle-with-the-man-over-lemonade-stand/#uiJq5Qf6dQVeMufZ.99