Police in Midway, Ga., shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls. The girls did not have a business license and required permits, WSB-TV reported.
The girls were in operation for just one day last week before the crackdown; they were trying to raise money to go to a water park. Police say the children needed a business license, peddler's permit and food permit to operate the stand, even on their lawn.
The girls were not arrested or charged, WSVA-TV said, and the police say they are working with attorneys to find a solution or a compromise to the issue.
The girls are now doing yard work and chores for money to go to the water park.
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Meanwhile, real crime is happening--probably even in Midway. Nice work, Midway police. This is absurd!
Police are working with attorneys to find a solution, bah! The solution is to let the girls run their lemonade stand. If the Midway police department was a sharp bunch, they'd take turns patrolling the girls' neighborhood just to stop and buy and cup of their finest. Maybe in some third-world communist country, New York City maybe, or out in California, you might need to get a business license to run a lemonade stand; but this is Midway, Georgia, for crying out loud. Wouldn't hurt the shiftless attorneys to drive over and buy a cup either.
And the girls were not running a business! The report is clear on this. They were simply raising money to go to the water park. What are the Midway police trying to say to these youngsters, that they should steal the money they need? That they should ask for a hand-out? What is the crime in a little self-initiative and hard work?
If the enterprising folks over at WSVA-TV are worth their salt, they will publish the local crime statistics for Midway for the week and note that, while these crimes were happening, Midway police were running honest citizens--three little girls--out of business for selling lemonade on a hot, July afternoon.
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