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No Lemonade

Posted by $ Abaco 10 years ago to Culture
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I feel a lot safer now...

I put this under "culture" because I'm amazed how stupid and soft we've become. LOL...

SOURCE URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed8O7b0TmF4


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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 12 months ago
    I make it a point to buy from the mexicans selling oranges and strawberries on the street corners. At least they are trying to be productive. I doubt they have licenses, but I dont care at all. Much better than the bums on welfare begging for money
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 12 months ago
    Every year or two I hear this same stupid story repeated.
    The only thing different is the location.
    Old dino recalls selling lemonade as a little hatchling. Sold some in paper cups and was not hassled at all.
    People got uptight about other things back in the 50s.
    I could even play without adult supervision in a public park without my parents being arrested.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 12 months ago
    I applaud the parents. Rather than just give them the money, or say the couldn't afford it, they allowed them to become businesspeople. Even in the face of regulation stupidity, they continued on their quest by doing chores. Hurray for them. Those girls , if they are allowed to maintain this attitude are the future. Or at least, the good part of the future.

    By the way, I have imbibed several quarts of lemonade stand lemonade with no bad results.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 12 months ago
    Hello Abaco,
    Protection racket...
    “There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
    ― Ayn Rand
    Respectfully,
    O.A.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 12 months ago
      OA,Thanks for the quote 160000+ pages of fed regulations. And they pick and choose who to accuse or abuse. To top that they are starting to make some laws retroactive.
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  • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 12 months ago
    I've yet to see bodies in the streets from drinking lemonade, but there are hundreds of thousands of bodies resulting from prescription drug deaths, even when properly dosed. The only difference is a license. Perhaps a license to kill.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 12 months ago
    I'm a fan of MaidRite loose meat and another upper midwest to finish it off the Pig's Dinner. The best ever made of the last one The Goal Post in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Sadly, No one in the Chamber of Commerce or City Hall remembered it MaidRites started in Wisconsin. I had my first one in Bemidji, Minnesota as a young lad. Deja sink your teeth into this vu. My sister and I sold lemonade and fresh fruit and vegetables. One day we visited relatives in Mason City Iowa and said, "What is THAT? McDonalds with real Golden Arches- little did we know.
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    • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 12 months ago
      I would enjoy a Maid-Rite over the golden arches any day!

      In 1926, way back before Facebook, and even before TV, people just didn't know how to waste time. But, being really bored paid off for butcher Fred Angell. He worked to get just the right combination of a special cut and grind of meat and a selected blend of spices. When a deliveryman tasted Fred's new creation, he said, "This sandwich is made right."

      With that, the Maid-Rite was born. Fred was quite a sandwich maker but not much of a speller.
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    • Posted by lrshultis 9 years, 12 months ago
      I never sold lemonade but did set up carnival games on the sidewalk and charged a penny or two to play, even gave booby prizes just like the big boys did. Never got busted for that but my home made bazooka which fired CO2 cylinders full of a zinc and sulfur propellant ended up in a cop's hands when a neighbor complained and I was working in my chem lab when a cop walked into the house without knocking and took it away. I was about 13 at the time in 1953. Got in trouble in high school chemistry for making NI3 which explodes with the slightest touch and spreads little peaces all over so that walking on the floor lets off little explosions. I did finally get a degree in chemistry but did not practice it due to not agreeing with the ACS and NSF registration programs. Things were much more free in the 50s, my grandfather even was able to walk through town with his gun on his side without question, that was in Paul Ryan's home town.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 9 years, 12 months ago
    the police force in Midway would have gone far in Nazi Germany...wonder if they would have thrown the switch to gas the girls if the law required it...
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  • Posted by $ blarman 9 years, 12 months ago
    "We don't know who made the lemonade or how it was made so they have to shut down."

    It isn't the government's responsibility to be nannies. That is for consumers themselves.

    I also note that no one from the city council showed up to be interviewed...
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  • Posted by bradberry1984 9 years, 12 months ago
    Who is the neighbor that complained. Someone, generally has to have called the authorities. Some neighbor that has nothing else to do or just contempt against these fine young kids.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years ago
    I remember hearing about this. If we wanted to get from where we are now to a less intrusive place, how would you do it?
    1) Have the police look the other way as long as it was just kids doing this on the side?
    2) Create exemptions in the law for child-run stands like this?
    3) Have the police do an"informal" inspection in lieu of having official permits?
    4) Abolish all laws controlling food preparations. It's up to the customers to assess them.
    5) Change the law so their only required to be independently insured so if they make someone sick, that person sues and wins, they will be able to pay the judgment.

    The answer could be a combination of them and countless ideas I haven't thought of.

    My thought is #5. I'm also for #1 and #3, but only to a small extent. I think when you give gov't power, it must use it consistently, as these police say. They can't show favoritism to their friends or the politically connected. The police seemed like good people who would be happy if the law were changed (by #2, #4, #5) to allow the kids to keep selling.
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    • Posted by Steve_Kolrud 9 years, 12 months ago
      I vote #4... a free exchange of goods and services with out the encumbrances of government, I will make the judgement, take the risk and except the responsibility, the seller has a responsibility as well, that the product will do what he says or is safe to consume. If there is a conflict we will settle it in court.
      What I would have done after being busted ....set up on my front lawn and give it away, maybe with a tip jar visible.
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    • Posted by $ 10 years ago
      I'd just suggest we all use common sense and let kids sell lemonade. Drink at your own risk. So #1 is my vote. Heck, I often will stop at such stand on my way home from work in our hood.
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years ago
        I agree, but I'm really cautious about policies of giving the gov't a power but letting them look the other way based on common sense. It leads to a world where laws aren't there to be followed by to be broken and give officials an excuse to harass anyone arbitrarily.

        I want few laws but strictly and consistently enforced.
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    • Posted by blackswan 9 years, 12 months ago
      Just make the law apply only to a professional business, not a kid's joint. If the volume is below $5,000 per year, then the law should be waived. A lemonade stand with a plywood table would fall under that limitation, and in such cases it's buyer beware. No tort law would apply.
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 9 years, 12 months ago
        That makes sense. It's like you can hire a company that's licensed, bonded, and insured to fix your house, or you can go to someone who does a few jobs on the side and take the risk of their damaging something yourself.
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    • Posted by Sneaker 9 years, 12 months ago
      " independently insured so if they make someone sick, that person sues and wins, they will be able to pay the judgment."

      Really? Insure a kids lemonade stand? Get real.

      Here's a better idea ... leave the kids alone. No one ever got sick from lil Sneaker's lemonade stand. I was ENCOURAGED by the community, not hassled by the police. I showed INITIATIVE .. something many kids these days could use.

      Running a lemonade stand is better than a whole fortitude of other things they could be doing.
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