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.
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Once again, the offish, brain-dead bureaucracy shuts down a little girl's lemonade stand. Isn't it wonderful to have government rules against, well, most everything! I'm surprised the SWAT team wasn't called.
Clyde, you’re an ***hole. So are the cops you hired.
So pathetic!
Why blame the cops???
It’s the politicians who created this ‘problem’.
The cops were simply enforcing the stupid law.
Deep Red Texas....great.
I blame cops when they enforce a stupid law, and I blame politicians when they pass stupid laws. Given the huge number of inappropriate laws, there is plenty of blame for everyone.
Key word being “stupid”. The idiot could have turned his cop blinders on and just driven by.
So that was the only law broken in this jurisdiction on this particular day? No jay walkers? No litter bugs? No labels removed from a mattress? No illegal drugs consumed? No dogs to shoot?
The cops pick and choose every day which law they will and will not enforce. Takes a real tuff guy to pick on couple little girls..........
Safe arrest! White privilegers!
I would guess there was a complaint from a business hating busy body
How it is we survived so many centuries without laws to protect us from little girls and lemonade stands...
Since they’re not old enough to vote, or tar-and-feather a legislator, I give them a pass.
They should make the lemonade free and have a tip jar for voluntary donations to their cause.
With a little imagination they could even raffle a lemon and end up with enough cash to take Dad to Splash Kingdom.
The lemonade stand was an American institution, the training wheels of capitalism. The kids are learning a different lesson now as the State crushes initiative and demonstrates its authority to intervne in the smallest aspects of their lives. Damn those petty tyrants!
All hail the State, Young Socialist Pioneers! Bow prostrate to your new god!
Overton is a little eye-blink out in the sticks. The population is only about 2500. I’m curious how they could even afford to have a police department.
I sleep better knowing that scofflaws such as these little girls are dealt with swiftly while dozens of attorneys at the IRS who violated the civil rights of US citizens skate.
And still no inquiry into the Clinton Foundation money laundering and bribery machine.
Goood thing the Clintons don’t sell lemonade.
Think about how history remembers people who were “just following orders”
Freaking Tyrants.... As if the Lemonade stand is a real business.
Anyone that enforces this is 100% certified CONTROL FREAK.
I hope the family gets an Attorney and file a law suit on everyone involved. I’m sick of these Tyrants.
Everyone knows this is total B.S.
This scenario is ridiculous, but I’m not sure I’d reflectively call this a stupid law. I don’t think we’d be referring to this as a “stupid law” if it was being used to shut down some dude from the Middle East who was selling roasted goat in his front yard.
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