Cops bust girls selling lemonade in their own yard
Wanna know how all-controlling, all-powerful, all-intrusive "your" [sarc] government has become--at every single level? You won't believe the story that follows:
Cops in a small Georgia town ordered three little girls to stop selling lemonade in their own front yard.
One of the girls said that the cop initially said "You can't hold up the sign," but a few minutes later (after checking with higher-ups, perhaps?) he said they had to stop selling lemonade--which was clearly the real objective all along.
Now, I'm not picking on Georgia. The local health department in some Oregon city barred another kids' lemonade operation, but that was at some sort of medieval fair, not in the kids' own front yard.
Point is, all levels of government are absolutely infested with people like this. Obviously, not all govt employees are this Nazi-like, but enough are that stories like this are all too common.
And listen to the local police chief's explanation: "We didn't know who made the lemonade, or what it contained, so we had to act to enforce city ordinances."
Gee, if only the country had been that diligent in vetting the guy currently occupying the White House.
If the town's regulations require kids to get a license for selling lemonade out of their own yard, there's a hint right there that some city poobahs need to be fired, forthwith.
What's next? You stalinists gonna make a kid offering to mow lawns in the neighborhood pass a proficiency exam and pay fifty bucks for a license? Come on, you know you want to!
As it happens, fifty bucks is what the city demanded for a ONE-DAY license to sell lemonade.
From their own front yard.
Of course the city, in its graciousness, also offered to sell 'em a license good for a whole year for $150. Hey, bargain.
The reporter commented that by selling lemonade the girls would have learned something about business and selling stuff. And sure enough, they probably did learn--just not the lessons that would have been learned 20 years ago.
Cops in a small Georgia town ordered three little girls to stop selling lemonade in their own front yard.
One of the girls said that the cop initially said "You can't hold up the sign," but a few minutes later (after checking with higher-ups, perhaps?) he said they had to stop selling lemonade--which was clearly the real objective all along.
Now, I'm not picking on Georgia. The local health department in some Oregon city barred another kids' lemonade operation, but that was at some sort of medieval fair, not in the kids' own front yard.
Point is, all levels of government are absolutely infested with people like this. Obviously, not all govt employees are this Nazi-like, but enough are that stories like this are all too common.
And listen to the local police chief's explanation: "We didn't know who made the lemonade, or what it contained, so we had to act to enforce city ordinances."
Gee, if only the country had been that diligent in vetting the guy currently occupying the White House.
If the town's regulations require kids to get a license for selling lemonade out of their own yard, there's a hint right there that some city poobahs need to be fired, forthwith.
What's next? You stalinists gonna make a kid offering to mow lawns in the neighborhood pass a proficiency exam and pay fifty bucks for a license? Come on, you know you want to!
As it happens, fifty bucks is what the city demanded for a ONE-DAY license to sell lemonade.
From their own front yard.
Of course the city, in its graciousness, also offered to sell 'em a license good for a whole year for $150. Hey, bargain.
The reporter commented that by selling lemonade the girls would have learned something about business and selling stuff. And sure enough, they probably did learn--just not the lessons that would have been learned 20 years ago.
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