"I’m beginning to think that there’s a nation-wide government conspiracy against either lemonade or children, because these lemonade stand shutdowns seem to be getting more and more common. If you set up a stand for your kids, just be prepared for a visit from the cops.
In Coralville, Iowa police shut down 4-year-old Abigail Krstinger’s lemonade stand after it had been up for half an hour. Dustin Krustinger told reporters that his daughter was selling lemonade at 25 cents a cup during the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Race Across Iowa (or RAGBRAI), and couldn’t have made more than five dollars, adding “If the line is drawn to the point where a four-year-old eight blocks away can’t sell a couple glasses of lemonade for 25 cents, than I think the line has been drawn at the wrong spot.”
Nearby, mother Bobbie Nelson had her kids’ lemonade stand shutdown as well. Police informed her that a permit would cost $400."......
Each state/counties have guidelines for outdoor food services. There is a good reason for these rules and regulations. Would you like to see this family get sued? The are a multiple of things that could go wrong at a curbside lemonade stand. While what this little girl wants to accomplish is quaint and meritorious, I don't think you are looking at the bigger picture that is involved here. One example... you might want to read these guidelines for Maricopa County before you just assume that this is some encroachment on this girls rights...
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The public has rights too!
Yes, that is true. There is a strong human compulsion to consume a possibly deadly concoction of water, sugar, and citic acid which has been know to cause sudden death or birth defects like Liberalitis or dumbassitosis. These "death stands" should be nipped in the bud before more people are harmed and these children profit on the death and suffering of others.
I'm not saying these kids should get jail time either, but at least some rehabilitaion and communiity service.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Personally I don't want to take the risk of eating and drinking unregulated food but I don't have an issue if others want to buy lemonade or burritos from some guy selling outside the Rockies game.
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I agree Fred. FDA regulation is fine.. There is a difference though, between residential front yards, and in front of Coors field feeding the masses. And just having a $400, local county rubber-stamped permit by some bureaucrat doesn't give me complete confidence that the food is ok. I'm just confident that the local gov't is well funded.
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