Cops in Georgia are Jerks

[North Palisades]

BREAKING NEWS: Law applies to everyone. Public disgusted.

Exactly. They're kids. Do you expect them to keep up to the hygiene standards that actual trained, paid adults sometimes don't? If they forgot to wash their hands then people could get seriously sick.

^this.

No. Not that.

Considering the amount of lemonade made by kids in this country, any rational person should find the claim that there was any sort of reasonable risk of E. Coli from a lemonade stand extremely dubious. My sister and I must have mixed thousands of liters of lemonade when we were kids, as I'm sure most other kids did as well.

I seriously cannot believe that this E. Coli argument has actually gained traction on this message board. It is just so ridiculous.

[North Palisades]

let's start at $50 for the street vendor permit, that is paid to the city.

$50 profit is the beginning arbitrary number for what makes a street vending business. anything less is a non-profit organization designed to send 3 girls to an amusement park.

Okay, then. Three girls going to the water park at $27 each is $81. $81>$50. By your own reasoning, they were a business.

Then they'd set up three independent lemonade stands...

[Greater Cabinda]

^this.

No. Not that.

Considering the amount of lemonade made by kids in this country, any rational person should find the claim that there was any sort of reasonable risk of E. Coli from a lemonade stand extremely dubious. My sister and I must have mixed thousands of liters of lemonade when we were kids, as I'm sure most other kids did as well.

I seriously cannot believe that this E. Coli argument has actually gained traction on this message board. It is just so ridiculous.

It's highly unlikely that E. Coli will break out in a high-class restaurant.

They should still be checked to make sure they're up to code.

[North Palisades]

No. Not that.

Considering the amount of lemonade made by kids in this country, any rational person should find the claim that there was any sort of reasonable risk of E. Coli from a lemonade stand extremely dubious. My sister and I must have mixed thousands of liters of lemonade when we were kids, as I'm sure most other kids did as well.

I seriously cannot believe that this E. Coli argument has actually gained traction on this message board. It is just so ridiculous.

It's highly unlikely that E. Coli will break out in a high-class restaurant.

They should still be checked to make sure they're up to code.

Well, considering that restaurants handle raw chicken, and other food that if improperly handled actually has a reasonable chance of causing illness, your comparison to a lemonade stand is dubious.

Seriously, when you were 12 years old and wanted lemonade did you run to your parents and ask them to make it for you? I just don't understand where this idea that there is a danger from kids making lemonade comes from.

[Grave_n_idle]

No. Not that.

Considering the amount of lemonade made by kids in this country, any rational person should find the claim that there was any sort of reasonable risk of E. Coli from a lemonade stand extremely dubious. My sister and I must have mixed thousands of liters of lemonade when we were kids, as I'm sure most other kids did as well.

I seriously cannot believe that this E. Coli argument has actually gained traction on this message board. It is just so ridiculous.

It's highly unlikely that E. Coli will break out in a high-class restaurant.

No, it's (maybe) unlikely that the food or service will be the cause of an e. coli outbreak - but the 'class' of the restaurant doesn't prohibit people from touching door handles with dirty hands (for example).

[North Palisades]

The other point is that even if I were to acknowledge that there is a reasonable risk of E. Coli from kids making lemonade, the whole argument is a red herring anyway. If these kids had paid $50 for a license, they could have served as much lemonade as they wanted. These kids, after paying a $50 fee, would be completely free to peddle their supposedly bio-hazardous lemonade.

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

Georgia cops bust 10-year-old’s lemonade stand
Posted on 07.15.11
By David Edwards
Categories: Featured, Say What?

When three girls in Midway, Georgia set up their lemonade stand, they intended to raise enough money to go to the water park. But the ever-vigilant local police quickly identified the girls’ effort as criminal enterprise and shut them down.

“It’s kind of crazy that we couldn’t sell lemonade,” 14-year-old Casity Dixon told WJCL. “It was fun, but we had to listen to the cops and shut it down.”

The police chief and another officer discovered the stand only one day after it had opened.

“They told us to shut it down,” 10-year-old Skylar Roberts said.

“We had told them, we understand you guys are young, but still, you’re breaking the law, and we can’t let you do it anymore,” Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar explained. “The law is the law, and we have to be consistent with how we enforce the laws.”

A city permit that would have allowed the lemonade stand to stay open costs $50 a day. In contrast, a child’s water park ticket goes for about $27.

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Yea, how DARE those girls try to earn their own money rather than begging mommy or daddy for it! As we all know, this isn't the first time a lemonade stand was closed down by a city government.

What, do cops and inspectors just hate lemonades or something? Maybe the kids should start opening up doughnut stands.

Thoughts?

I can't run a weekend yard sale in my city without posting a $10 fee first, and even then, I can't post "Yard Sale" signs outside of my own property. I was hounded by city workers when I tried doing so without prior knowledge of the fact. Additionally, I can't serve or sell food at all.

Yes, these rules are fucking ridiculous, but police are paid to enforce the law, not interpret it.

[Christmahanikwanzikah]

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Yea, how DARE those girls try to earn their own money rather than begging mommy or daddy for it! As we all know, this isn't the first time a lemonade stand was closed down by a city government.

What, do cops and inspectors just hate lemonades or something? Maybe the kids should start opening up doughnut stands.

Thoughts?

Wait...are we talking about the country?

Win.

[Tiami]

Eleven years ago, when I was ten, I got fined $250 for setting up a lemonade stand. And yes, I lived in Georgia.

[12 year olds]

Wait... all 3 are girls, wouldn't they contaminate the lemonade with Cooties!!??! Yea, police!!!