Oregon Officials Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand

[Meresgi]

Well, that just makes you an enemy combatant sympathizing with a felon. The little girl's probably planning to sneak across the border to Mexico or Canada so that she can avoid paying taxes on the proceeds generated from the stand. Fuck her. America's deprived from the fruit of its citizens for way too long, after all, we need the tax revenue to pay the salary and benefits of cops who walk around and bust up illegal lemonade stands. It is a gross miscarriage of justice that she wasn't detained and fined for her felony.

I agree.

Also do we have a report as to where the lemonade to make the packets came from? I bet they were handpicked by illegal immigrants stealing American jobs. I would like to know what Rush Limbaugh has to say about this.

[zoobernut]

Valisk is so righteous and noble. Fuck the vendors being cool with it, who cares about their opinions on the matter. I mean its not like they have fucking stands there or anything.

Just to point out this has NOTHING to do with the vendors being cool with it or not and it has NOTHING to do with how much money she could make potentially and not pay taxes on.

This was all about the food safety. She was shut down by health inspectors. At least that is what the OP said.

If you are selling food over a certain volume and in a public place like fair grounds you need a license and to comply to food safety rules regardless of how old you are.

Like it has been said before it is fine to set up a neighborhood lemonade stand where the volume will be small but it is not ok to go to a fair with a large volume of people and not expect to follow the same rules as everyone who is serving food.

People seem stuck on the $120, you can't just pay the $120 and get the permit you actually have to be inspected and show you meet food safety standards before they allow you to pay to get the permit. It isn't about the money it is about maintaining standards for any stand in a public place serving a large crowd food.

[aduidarnenye]

I have to agree with shutting her down at a festival. If it had been her family's front lawn then that would have been overboard. At a festival it looks more like the mother was running the stand and the little girl was being used as a shield to avoid paying fees. Silly thing all around though, the health inspectors had to know that it would cause a shit storm. Don't mess with little white girls.

[Not not Mattaru]

Don't mess with little white girls.

They've got guns now.

[Antithesis]

So the girl was making a nice amount of money. Are we going to deny the girl the right to make money?

Spoiler: show

The right to make money

Spoiler: show

lol

[Corrderio]

I'm somewhat surprised the people running the festival didn't ask them to leave. With 15,000 people there you'd expect them to have a food/drink stand or two around already wouldn't you?

[Firedemon]

It makes sense they gave them a choice to have the license. Like a bunch of people already pointed out, it was a festival, not a small neighbourhood gathering. It's not like she was outside house with a small lemonade stand and the cops came and shut her down.

I'll bet the mom had this cool idea to have her 7 year old daughter run a lemonade stand at a 15,000+ person festival to make a buncha gwop.

[Kerberoz]

Bitch deserves to go to jail for selling Kool-aid as "lemonade".

[Zilong]

who the fuck mixes kool aid for a large gathering group of people that isn't a radical religious cult leader?

The officer prevented Jonestown 2.0, he deserved a fucking medal.

[Cleverness]

Girl needs to learn her place, she belongs in the kitchen. Can't be trying to move it around outside, no clever antics allowed.

[Jeduah]

I'd probably be more sympathetic if they were trying to brand a family recipe or something. Hell, even if the mom had borrowed a recipe from Martha Stewart it would have shown SOME semblance of effort. I do feel bad for the little girl only because it probably made her feel important to be handing out the stuff and I doubt she understands that her mother's own half-assery was at fault.

[Falaras]

Its a fucking seven year old child, probably all that was going through her mind was dreaming of buying new barbies, the health inspector was a dick for doing this.

[Zilong]

wait until you find out the secret ingredient to the lemonade was cyanide!

[BerenTebogo]

Mother was there 100% of the way, this has nothing at all to do with shutting down a lemonade stand run by a child, it's shutting down a lemonade stand run by the mother who was using her daughter as an advertising gimmick.

Lolmedia and attention-grabbing headlines despite what the truth of the matter may have been.

Been said already but safety of the group > you wanting to make a buck by dressing your little girl up and putting her out in the middle of a group of people on a hot, sweaty, summer day and having her generate advertisement for your tax-free shitty product.

Obviously the little girl is going to be upset by this, but the officials aren't the ones who broke her heart, her mother is by being a stupid fucking opportunistic cockswazzle.

Edit: In case people can't follow my line of reasoning: There has never existed, in the history of the world, an event where a parent and a 7 year old daughter were engaged in an activity together that the child had 100% control of every step of the way and the parent was at the beck and call of the child. Doesn't matter what the child thinks the facts of the situation are, the deception is also the fault of the mother. Don't break the rules then point to your crying child who legitimately doesn't understand the situation and yell, "YOU DID THIS TO HER!" because, no, you did you fuckslosher.

[Narol]

Or, put another way, how many people would be rushing to this pair's defense if the article said something like, "Oregon Officials Shut Down Unlicensed Drink Stand Run By Local Woman"?

To continue Sath's line of thought, the kid certainly didn't set this all up herself. But since everyone focuses on a crying little girl, everyone gets too involved in that and misses the fact that it was a mother-and-daughter thing, not just some kid's thing.

[Wulfgang]

Which? To shut down the lemonade stand or sell lemonade tax free at a festival of 15,000 where other vendors had to purchase permits and pay taxes? Age isn't a free pass here.

I can't stand in the middle of the street and charge people a 25 cent toll to get out of the way and neither can a 7 year old. The stand was rightfully shut down. Neighborhood Lemonade stand? Cute! Adorable! Illegal Festival Lemonade stand? Get the! Fuck out!

If you read the original story from the Oregon news site that was linked on Drudge, the other vendors were on the kid+mom's side and told them to just stay after the inspector left. And your parallel to charging a toll is retarded. One requires payment, the other is clearly optional. And Sath you need to chill out lol.

The comments section exploded with Obama socialist overreaching government posts haha.

[Not not Mattaru]

And Sath you need to chill out lol.

Basically impossible.

[Antithesis]

Mother was there 100% of the way, this has nothing at all to do with shutting down a lemonade stand run by a child, it's shutting down a lemonade stand run by the mother who was using her daughter as an advertising gimmick.

Lolmedia and attention-grabbing headlines despite what the truth of the matter may have been.

Been said already but safety of the group > you wanting to make a buck by dressing your little girl up and putting her out in the middle of a group of people on a hot, sweaty, summer day and having her generate advertisement for your tax-free shitty product.

Obviously the little girl is going to be upset by this, but the officials aren't the ones who broke her heart, her mother is by being a stupid fucking opportunistic cockswazzle.

Edit: In case people can't follow my line of reasoning: There has never existed, in the history of the world, an event where a parent and a 7 year old daughter were engaged in an activity together that the child had 100% control of every step of the way and the parent was at the beck and call of the child. Doesn't matter what the child thinks the facts of the situation are, the deception is also the fault of the mother. Don't break the rules then point to your crying child who legitimately doesn't understand the situation and yell, "YOU DID THIS TO HER!" because, no, you did you fuckslosher.

Jealous you didn't come up with it sooner.

[Not Kuno]

They were at a festival? Fuck that shit. It's one thing to do this on your sidewalk but to be next to legit businesses who have to pay permits, get the fuck out.

[Ikith]

Shoulda paid the fees. Everyone else did.