wkmac
Well-Known Member
10 Year Old Girl Fined $50 for not having a license.
So the agents showed poor judgement but the fact remains that the agents were acting according to the law and therefore there is such a law and it was the circumstances of the case that caused such public shame that they took the easy way out and in this case blamed the officers. I blame the politicians who passed the law in the first place! A law most likely passed to protect other businesses from competition rather than the public at large but I'm sure it won't take much to convince the non-thinking public that the lemonade in question posed a health risk because it lacked proper testing or rather the young girl had failed to prove to the State she was capable of making a pitcher of lemonade!
Ah but the good news is the State creates it's own enemies and I'd say a certain 10 year old just got her first lesson on opposing state monopoly economics and what the Matrix really is!
Life imitates the Simpsons: a 10 year old New York
http://www.inquisitr.com/33732/10-y...perating-a-lemonade-stand-without-a-license/#
girl has been fined $50 for operating a lemonade stand without a license.
Clementine Lee set up a lemonade stand in Riverside Park, New York Saturday as a way to raise some pocket money, but that was before not one, but three city officials pounced on her illegal operation.
“I was kind of nervous, and I also really felt bad because I didn’t know I was doing something against the law,” Clementine told local media. “They made me feel really, really bad, and scared at the same time,” Clemetine said. “We could have gotten into really big trouble and gotten arrested or something.”
A spokesperson for the New York Parks Department says that the three agents “showed poor judgment” (you think so?) and that the ticket will be dismissed.
For the record, Clementine had managed to sell $19 worth of lemonade before being slapped with the $50 fine.
So the agents showed poor judgement but the fact remains that the agents were acting according to the law and therefore there is such a law and it was the circumstances of the case that caused such public shame that they took the easy way out and in this case blamed the officers. I blame the politicians who passed the law in the first place! A law most likely passed to protect other businesses from competition rather than the public at large but I'm sure it won't take much to convince the non-thinking public that the lemonade in question posed a health risk because it lacked proper testing or rather the young girl had failed to prove to the State she was capable of making a pitcher of lemonade!
Ah but the good news is the State creates it's own enemies and I'd say a certain 10 year old just got her first lesson on opposing state monopoly economics and what the Matrix really is!