Salem, Mass: Kids' Lemonade Stand Shut Down After Competitor Complains

[Ian David]

SALEM, Mass. -- A sausage vendor has given two Massachusetts boys a lesson in cutthroat business techniques.

Police shut down the boys' lemonade stand in Salem after the sausage man complained that they didn't have a permit and were taking customers away from him.

Lieutenant Scott Englehart said police had no choice but to enforce the rules. But he said it's "ridiculous that little kids can't sell lemonade."

Jarrod Clowery is the sausage man. He said he regrets ever calling police because now all he gets are icy stares from people around town who heard about the story.

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[tk2kewl]

1. Clowery. I guess he doesn't have a degree in marketing.

dingbat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. What a jackass.

"He said he regrets ever calling police because now all he gets are icy stares from people around town who heard about the story." He's not sorry he got the kids' lemonade stand shut down; he's sorry about the bad publicity. Well, dude, here's your karma. I bet he loses more business on account of being a dick than the kids would have taken away from him in lemonade sales.

[pacalo]

3. Reminds me of Mr. Weaver

on the Andy Griffith Show...

[zalinda]

4. He's got to be a repub

because if he was smart, he would have had the kids near him to draw in customers. He would have only lost some drink sales, but very possibly increased sausage sales. AND think of the good publicity he could have had, by helping kids.

zalinda

[greekspeak]

5. Did he kick some kittens too because they didn't have any tags?

What a maroon. Scrooge got what he deserves. Actually, he deserves to have people tell him he is a humbug, instead of just giving him nasty looks.

[fryguy]

6. nuttin' like a free market economy - n/t

[zbdent]

7. Watch for this to come up before John "french-fry" Roberts . . .

[Broken_Hero]

8. What a moron...

Its like turning in an old lady for Jaywalking. This guy is going to go out of business cause he is an $%$%$#@%$#^%^$#. Ha, this guy is going to have to move to another town to sell his sausages, and what the heck? Sausage vendoers? I thought they only had those in Wisconsin...:)