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TEXAS POLICE SHUT DOWN GIRLS' LEMONADE STAND, DEMAND PERMIT
ABC Channel 13 ^ | June 11, 2015 | KTRK-TV/DT

Posted on 06/11/2015 4:55:15 AM PDT by Flick Lives

OVERTON, TX (KTRK) -- Police in Texas shut down a lemonade stand run by two little girls. They said it was illegal.

Andria and Zoey Green told ABC affiliate KLTV they were trying to raise about $100 for a Father's Day present. They wanted to take him to Splash Kingdom.

They had been selling lemonade and kettle corn for an hour - and made about $25 - when officers showed up and told them they need a $150 permit to sell their lemonade.

Texas House Bill 970, or the Texas Baker's Bill, does not allow the sale of food that needs time or temperature control to prevent it from spoiling. Since lemonade needs to be refrigerated to prevent bacteria growth, police said they needed an inspection from the health department and a permit to sell it.

"It is a lemonade stand, but they also have a permit that they are required to get," Overton Police Chief Clyde Carter said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc13.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lemonade; permit; police
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To: Flick Lives
The sisters plan to try again this weekend. Instead of selling their lemonade, they'll give it away for free and accept donations.

Lol...smart kids!

21 posted on 06/11/2015 5:21:59 AM PDT by mac_truck (Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: Flick Lives
Andria and Zoey Green told ABC affiliate KLTV they were trying to raise about $100 for a Father's Day present.

What a loving and sweet thing to do for their dad...

The police chief if he had any sense should have coughed up the remaining money they were trying to raise...if he was determined to enforce the law...

22 posted on 06/11/2015 5:22:18 AM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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To: Flick Lives

The stand would be open with a “free lemonade” and a big tip jar on the table. Any law against that?


23 posted on 06/11/2015 5:22:41 AM PDT by petercooper (And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus... Rollin' down Highway 41.)
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To: Flick Lives
A few weeks back, during a brief early spring warm period (before we sank back into a cool and wet spring) I was out walking my dog. I came across two girls selling lemonade and yes, I bought not one but two glasses! Gasp! The horror, the risk!

Hey libtard lurkers out there - I got a cool drink of what turned out to be actually pretty good lemonade. The girls got a $1. My lab made a couple of new friends. Oh, and this'll really make the libtards heads' explode - I bought the lemonade from the girls while carrying my 9mm concealed. Guess what, it didn't jump out of its holster and shoot everyone at the stand.

24 posted on 06/11/2015 5:22:48 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Flick Lives

So, evidently, Texas sucks too. I thought this kind of thing only happened up north.


25 posted on 06/11/2015 5:23:33 AM PDT by ladyrustic
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To: CMailBag

It is the cops fault.

He did not have to enforce it on little girls.

What a jerk!


26 posted on 06/11/2015 5:27:03 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Buttons12

That’s exactly how my two daughters did it. I instructed them to make a sign saying “Free Lemonade! Donations accepted”. They misunderstood and wrote “expected” instead of “accepted” but they still made about $45 in an hour and a half next to traffic slowed by rush hour through our town’s bottle neck N-S main street. No hassles from the local constabulary.


27 posted on 06/11/2015 5:27:08 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Flick Lives

Sold koolaide. Made money until mom taught me about costs. She charged me for sugar and the koolaide mix. Now I didn’t make money.

Next summer I got a paper route.


28 posted on 06/11/2015 5:28:15 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Alberta's Child

The differences between lemonade and roast goat are clear, or they should be.

BTW, I buy lemonade from a neighborhood “stand” (card table with three elementary school age girls) several times a year - including just before Mother’s Day and just before Father’s day. The kids I buy from use sugar, lemon juice, and a few real lemons. They serve big ice-cold plastic cups of lemonade, and I like their attention to detail. Once they reach high school, I’ll probably stop buying from them. I would strongly object to enforcement against them now, while I would find enforcement still wrong but much more understandable if they were old enough to work legally.


29 posted on 06/11/2015 5:29:45 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Who is gonna buy roasted goat out of a front yard ? You ? Most certainly NOT Me.


30 posted on 06/11/2015 5:29:47 AM PDT by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: ladyrustic

“Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.”

The police chief does not pass the test.

He may be a legal resident, but he is NOT a TEXAN!

Now if the city is 2,500 this might not be received well at the next city council meeting. I live in a town of 600 and I know what would happen here.


31 posted on 06/11/2015 5:30:33 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: petercooper

Whatever happened to prosecutorial discretion? Has that been abrogated solely to Obama?


32 posted on 06/11/2015 5:31:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: JParris

Agree. No kids running around without shoes, riding their bikes without helmets, or drinking from a garden hose that the cops & bureaucrats could harass? No teens holding car wash or bake sale fundraisers for a band trip? So many youth offenders, too little government to deal with the young buggers.

/sarc


33 posted on 06/11/2015 5:37:14 AM PDT by twister881
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To: Flick Lives

34 posted on 06/11/2015 5:37:18 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Flick Lives
"Law of Unintended Consequences"

Basic economics: Pass a law to make it difficult for people to sell fried goats on the street and you will also outlaw little girls' lemonade stands!

35 posted on 06/11/2015 5:37:19 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: Night Hides Not

In case you are interested, a note could be sent to the following address: overtonpd@ci.overton.tx.us


36 posted on 06/11/2015 5:38:17 AM PDT by fteuph
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To: basil

37 posted on 06/11/2015 5:42:00 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Flick Lives

found this

cityadmin@ci.overton.tx.us

overtonpd@ci.overton.tx.us

From

http://www.ci.overton.tx.us/index.aspx?nid=14

And get this, they have a planning and zoning dept. headshake


38 posted on 06/11/2015 5:42:25 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Alberta's Child

I would.

I think people have a right to sell roasted goat in their front yards.

But just because someone is selling it doesn’t mean I have to buy it.


39 posted on 06/11/2015 5:42:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: Flick Lives

There’s a lot good about Texas, but it is moving towards fascism.


40 posted on 06/11/2015 5:43:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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