Posted on 06/11/2015 4:55:15 AM PDT by Flick Lives
Lol...smart kids!
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...
The stand would be open with a “free lemonade” and a big tip jar on the table. Any law against that?
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.
So, evidently, Texas sucks too. I thought this kind of thing only happened up north.
It is the cops fault.
He did not have to enforce it on little girls.
What a jerk!
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.
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.
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.
Who is gonna buy roasted goat out of a front yard ? You ? Most certainly NOT Me.
“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.
Whatever happened to prosecutorial discretion? Has that been abrogated solely to Obama?
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
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!
In case you are interested, a note could be sent to the following address: overtonpd@ci.overton.tx.us
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And get this, they have a planning and zoning dept. headshake
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.
There’s a lot good about Texas, but it is moving towards fascism.
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