Georgia Cops Bust 10-Year-Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand

[Purveyor]

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.

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[Drale]

1. It was obviously a front operation for a insidious teenage girl run mafia.

Boy it seems that they can not find anyone smarter then a rock to be a police officer in the south.

[Dept of Beer]

10. Meanwhile...

GE paid no taxes in 2010, and the incentives that they received in return have themselves been given a tax break.

:sarcasm:

[VeryConfused]

2. The article's headline is intended to incite

yet there a couple of points to consider:

14 is a bit old to run a lemonade stand

This was day 2 the stand was open. Traditionally the childhood lemonade stand is a one day venture, not an ongoing business.

[villager]

4. *It was open for two days in summer!!?* How dare those kids!

And an otherwise unemployable 14 year-old doing it to raise money!?

Good Christ! If it had been open any longer, the cops would have been fully justified in tasering them!

[VeryConfused]

13. Glad to see you are taking a level headed and rational position

and not letting your emotions get the better of you.

[villager]

20. Glad to see you are calm and collected when supporting police harassment of kids!

Perhaps some emotion -- empathy, perhaps? -- would help make things better?

[VeryConfused]

25. We don't know if the police got a complaint call

so the accusation of harassment is speculative.

[villager]

27. We know that the cops wanted to shake them down for a $50 "license" to keep going

which is appalling enough.

you are, however, free to keep taking the side of the cops over the kids. Sadly, you wouldn't be alone in rationalizing such appalling behavior, which explains a lot about the times we live in.

[VeryConfused]

29. I know I am free to reserve judgment until I have all the facts

and it will not stop others from flying off the handle half cocked or being angry at me for not joining them

[villager]

31. You don't actually have children in your life, do you?

Me, as the father of two -- well, I know whose side I'm on.

[VeryConfused]

34. I have kids in my life

but for some reason they didn't make me to superior to others like your two daughters did. Please forgive my impertinence

[villager]

37. in your life? But not raising them, right? In terms of siding with the cops over them?

n/t

[VeryConfused]

39. I'm again sorry, clearly I answered the question you asked instead of the one

you meant. That was clearly stupid of me. I guess wanting facts put me on the side of the cops to, so I must be a pig lover or something. My self esteem is taking a real beating exchanging posts with you. Perhaps it's best if I stop.

[Downtown Hound]

44. "Perhaps it's best if I stop."

First rational thing you've said in this thread. :thumbsup:

[bigmonkey]

48. You are aware, are you not, "having all the facts" is a condition that's manipulated politically?

The Republicans continually play on this "we don't have all the facts" theme.

Viz:
"I was taken out of context"
"Some people are saying..."
"We have experts here..." (their own "experts")
"Allegations of election fraud need to be carefully investigated, and are inappropriate now." (to postpone the investigation until it's too late to matter)

This circumstance always makes me suspicious of the "we don't have all the facts" meme.

[plumbob]

49. That's a $50 a DAY license, and it was the female police chief on

the call. AND $180 a year on top of that.

Look, I teach, have taught for three decades, live in Texas all my life, so I know stupid. Cops shutting down the threat to public safety lemonade stand did something stupid.

[ZombieHorde]

6. Liberals love authoritarianism just as much as conservatives.

Makes me sad. Makes me angry.

[Dept of Beer]

11. Give the kids their fucking stand.

All it would mean is that they'd have some spare change to have fun with.

I really hate it when society has to bust the youth don't to shit status for wanting to make a few pennies, yet turn their backs willingly when corporate Amurka is ready to hump them.

[plumbob]

50. Too true. When some bar is serving underage folks, a blind eye is turned

for their old buddy.

Kids wanta run a lemonade stand to earn $27 to go to the WATER PARK!!!??? Whoa Nellie!!!!

Been looking for a story that makes the police look dumber than this one does. Couldn't find one.

[Dept of Beer]

52. I guess that we can be thankful that the kids weren't tazed.

[VeryConfused]

14. Labels save you from having to think though

so that should make you happy

[ZombieHorde]

16. If the shoe fits, wear it.

You're obviously attracted to labels. You joined Democratic Underground; Label Label.

[VeryConfused]

26. That post didn't take much thought either

so you must be ecstatic

[villager]

28. unlike, say, your kneejerk snarks?

:shrug:

[VeryConfused]

30. I am sorry if not joining you in flying off the handle with only half the story

offends you so. please forgive me

[villager]

32. well, congrats on an entirely accurate user name, at least

:thumbsup:

[VeryConfused]

33. Well you have to be correct about that

because you told me you have two kids in your life and that makes you infallible. again my most humble apologies. Can you ever forgive me and my insane adherence to rational fact based thinking and the scientific method?

[ZombieHorde]

35. Tell me all about how you used rational, fact-based thinking and the scientific method

in your post.

[VeryConfused]

36. I suggested we consider two points

that clearly is the act of a crazy man in your obviously flawless view of the world. Sorry, it was wrong of me to consider facts before passing judgment. In the future I will let you decide my opinion on things, rather than think for myself.

[Downtown Hound]

41. I considered your points

and found them to be rather ridiculous. So what if the girl is 14 and had it open for more than a day? Is that really going to bring down Western civilization? When I was a kid nobody would have even debated this. It was just widely accepted as something kids do to make a little extra money, and no harm ever came of it. Kids shouldn't need permits to do stuff like this. We should be encouraging them and be grateful that they aren't out selling dope.

You think you're being rational? LOL.

[VeryConfused]

42. OK, I understand now. Unless the law is designed to protect western

civilization it's wrong for the police to enforce it. Got it, say no more.

[Downtown Hound]

43. Laws should make sense

and exist to protect people. Nobody is being protected by this. All that's happening is that being a child and doing kid things is being criminalized.

Is it humanly possibly for you to have a bigger stick up your ass about a lemonade stand? Jesus Christ.

[ZombieHorde]

45. You did not post facts. You posted opinions, just like me. nt

[villager]

38. It's the unhinged "rationalists" one always has to watch out for...

n/t

[VeryConfused]

40. now you're just being mean

Haven't I already acknowledged your clear superiority?

[villager]

46. actually, it makes me sad that you expend so much effort to applaud picking on kids

n/t

[plumbob]

51. Didn't watch the video at the link, did you? Reporter interviewed the cops

and the kids and the parents.

The whole story is there, and seriously, the police CHIEF says they had to be shut down for public safety since no one knew who made the lemonade or what it was made with or how it was made.

Bet those cops like shaking down kids on Halloween for their candy, too!

No beggar's license??!! Off to old Bailey for you!

[Downtown Hound]

19. Oh, that changes everything. Not. n/t

[Downtown Hound]

21. Your DU name is quite appropriate. n/t

[HereSince1628]

3. CLEAR EXAMPLE! Gov't is HOSTILE to small business and entrepreneurs

I expect to see this go national.

[DJ13]

5. Next up, kids mowing lawns without a business license

You just know they'll get there eventually.

[ZombieHorde]

7. Exactly. I used to pay kids to mow my lawn every couple of weeks. nt

[Dept of Beer]

12. Yep. They have to give that business up to the

landscaping crews that hire out to day laborers.

Why should local kids with a lawn mower be a trusted resource when everything can be businessized at a premium cost to the consumer?

more :sarcasm:

[damntexdem]

8. Tricky pre-teen terrorists. Trying to get Georgians to drink the ... lemonade.

;-)

[VeryConfused]

15. 14 is pre-teen?

[fredamae]

9. Small Gov't Hacks=Big Bro Gov't n/t

[Speck Tater]

17. When I was a kid

We lived a mile from a lake, and me and my best friend built a lemonade and koolaid stand at the beach and made $20 to $30 a day in the summer. And that was in 1952 when $30 was a HELL of a lot of money, especially for a 9-year old kid.

[ZombieHorde]

24. The police should have clubbed you for your dark crimes.

:sarcasm:

[Downtown Hound]

18. Goldman Sachs, BP, Newscorp, every one of these criminal organizations is allowed to roam free

But a kid's lemonade stand is illegal and will be shut down. Gawd Bless Amurica'.

[The Big Vetolski]

22. They were clearly infringing on Wal-Mart's rights, ...

the NERVE! :sarcasm:

[ZombieHorde]

23. If the cops have nothing better to do than break up lemon-aid stands,

then there are too many cops. If they already have all the cops they need to find missing people in their area, investigate murders, and keep an eye on violent gangs, then they should fire the excess workers. A police officer with idle hands is a scary thing. Literally threatening little girls over a lemon-aid stand is over the top.

[Turbineguy]

47. No doubt

Obama told the Police to do it as part of his big socialist government plan.:sarcasm: