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Georgia Cops Shut Down Girls’ Lemonade Stand for Lack of Business License

Georgia Cops Shut Down Girls Lemonade Stand for Lack of Business License

MIDWAY, Ga. (AP/The Blaze) — Police in Georgia have shut down a lemonade stand run by three girls trying to save up for a trip to a water park, saying they didn’t have a business license or the required permits.

Midway Police Chief Kelly Morningstar says police also didn’t know how the lemonade was made, who made it or what was in it.


The girls had been operating for one day when Morningstar and another officer cruised by.

The girls needed a business license, peddler’s permit and food permit to operate, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day or $180 per year.

One girl, 14-year-old Casity Dixon, says the three had to listen to police and shut down.

The girls are now doing chores and yard work to make money.

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  • TheEmperorHasNoClothes
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:59am

    I tried to have a lemonade stand when I was about 7. My cousin was babysitting us and, because he didnt want to have to watch us outside, he said that we needed permits and a license from the city. So, we didnt have one. And, I never tried again. Don’t know if that is related, but I hope the parents of these children keep encouraging them.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:51am

      I am surprised they didn’t Taze them
      Cops are required to have a low IQ, why is that ?
      To Protect and Serve

      Robert Jordan sued the New Haven, Conn., police department after it rejected him as a police officer because he scored too high on an intelligence test. But U.S. District Judge Peter C. Dorsey has dismissed Jordan’s suit, ruling that he “may have been disqualified unwisely, but he was not denied equal protection” as defined by law. Jordan’s IQ is approximately 125, versus a national average police officer IQ of 104. New Haven argued that a too-smart cop “could soon get bored with police work and quit after undergoing costly academy training.” (AP) …More likely, the brass realized he’d outrank them within two years.

      maybe so they will just follow orders ????

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:33am

      You just have to wonder how many illegal aliens there are? How many actual convicts there are molesting kids and they have to shut down a lemonade stand. These troopers deserve medals for their courage for stopping this clear violation of the laws.

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:47am

      It’s no wonder our kids have no get up & go about them. Their hands are tied at everything they could do to legally make some money. Guess our laws would rather the kids go out and steal from stores & others homes to make a few bucks. When I was 11, I was selling our flowers, veggies etc. I even made a little cart to pull behind my bike to sell soda pop to a construction site near us. Then I’d go back and collect the bottles for a refund.

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    • libertycapt
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:14am

      Congratulations on your heroic effort in shutting down yet another terrorist lemonade stand run by the worst criminal organization this country has seen since the creation of the Federal Reserve! You should all be proud and start to order the medals your officers deserve to be given at your next pinning ceremony. How dare 14 year old girls and those younger to try and get past the laws that make such common sense! Isn’t there a harsher punishment you can impose? The minute I saw the WJCL news clip, I called our local home alarm company and had a new system installed. Did you see the eyes on those girls? Those fake tears don’t fool me! They are dangerous and should be locked away for life!

      It is a comfort knowing that your town ordinance is protecting your citizens. Those who wrote this into law should be commended for their just and swift reaction to such a crime that plagues this great nation of ours!

      People should understand that they only need purchase the lemonade that is available in their local stores. So what if it is loaded with Aspartame! The government says it is good for us so we should believe that! If not lemonade then simply stay home and drink good old tap water. So what if it is loaded with sodium fluoride! The government says it is good for us so we should believe that too! The nerve of these adolescent criminals to take business away from big corporations that care only for the people and not for self profit!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:15am

      See if the law enforcement officers didn’t shut them down and somebody got sick, well then the officer along with the city would be sued right. Blame ignorant sue happy Americans. The more immoral and debauched Americans become the more masters are required to run them.

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    • Sheepdog911
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:49am

      This is at most a “code enforcement” issue. What the heck are the police doing there? Family should have told the police to go away. Since when do the police enforce health codes in restaurants? They don’t. So why were they sent to this little lemonade stand?

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    • knockered
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:53am

      It’s about nothing else but collecting the taxes. Just check with obummer he’ll tell ya.

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    • mils
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:59am

      These officers need to be congratulated!!!…wow another kiddie lemonade stand bites the dust!! WOW!!!!…I mean the could have been off doing dumb stuff like catching criminals..BUT THEY STOOD THEIR GROUND AND WENT AFTER THE KIDDIES!!!!

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:37pm

      bullies ALWAYS go after easy targets. ALWAYS. 100% of the time.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:39pm

      KELLI MORNINGSTAR
      Chief of Police
      Website: http://historicmidway.com
      10490 E. Oglethope Highway
      Midway, Georgia 31320
      Phone: (912) 880.1000
      Fax: (912) 880.4012

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    • jjoy
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:54pm

      Why aren’t these cops out solving real crimes and arresting criminals like murderers, child-molesters, robbers, burgulars, etc.???

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:08pm

      I’m sorry but states that let this kind of thing happen…

      SHOULD BE CUT OUT OF THE UNION!!!

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    • cous1933
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:10pm

      Tower7,
      I have to respond to your post as it is unfairly collectivist in stating that police officers are required to have low IQs. I am somewhat familiar with Mr. Jordans story and I assure you that it is an anomaly. I am a veteran police officer and I know many police officers who are highly intelligent. (Of course police, like any other profession, have a wide variety of personalities and intellects).
      Do you (like so many others on The Blaze) read a story about a black person or group of black people misbehaving and conclude that all black people are bad? I doubt it. I read most of your posts (because you and I have very similar political beliefs) and I know that you are not a collectivist so please don’t stoop to that level in regards to police officers. Many are very good people.

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    • cous1933
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:11pm

      BTW, I absolutely agree that shutting down a lemonade stand is stupid.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:33pm

      The girls should reopen their stand, offering FREE LEMONADE, with a sign that they may except donations to the worthy cause of a trip to the water park. It would all be legal and the progressive’s police force could go back to being the keystone cops they apparently are.

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 6:29pm

      Isn’t it strange…the cops will shut down a lemonade stand in an instant, but groups of tens of crack-dealers standing around on every corner of a couple specific streets in my town every day of the week hawking their wares, even approaching cars stopped at intersections and knocking on windows, are all but totally ignored. There are streets in my town you just avoid if at all possible, as it’s like that.

      But heck, this is Michigan, a state historically controlled by the Democrats and labor unions. Drug dealing is the only growth-business that exists here. I’m waiting for the unions to try to organize the dealers.

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    • Jahs63
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:38pm

      If you are going to operate in commerce, you are going to need a license. A license is permission. Permission is not required in free country. Where is the free country?

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    • CitizenInane
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:44pm

      I just sent an e-mail to the contact address of the town & requested that they forward it to the Chief of Police. I suggest that everyone who feels this is wrong do the same. If you are worried about sanitation, why not give the kids the price of a cup and tell them you don’t need the lemonade. “Cross-contamination” — do you even know what that means? BTW, a couple of weeks ago a little girl set up a little table on the corner near my house & was selling lemonade for 25 cents a cup. Something about it touched me, and I bought a cup for my husband and one for myself and gave the little girl a dollar and told her she deserved the tip for sitting in the hot sun (and it WAS hot). The lemonade was terrible, and my husband and I both dumped it out, but I had a wonderful day after that! Children taking the initiative to do something like that deserve encouragement.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:48pm

      COUS1933 I must state that I believe you are the anomaly
      A policeman that supports Ron Paul, Obviously you are of high IQ
      and must have been hired long ago when America was still free.

      I do not mean to offend you Sir.
      But my experience compels me to think
      there is some screening going on today.

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    • cous1933
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 11:49pm

      Tower7,
      Unfortunately for the police it is always the worst of us who seem to get the most attention. They make it difficult for us all. I think you would be surprised to know that there are really quite a few of my police officer friends who greatly admire Ron Paul. The problem is that most of them buy into the “he can’t win” philosophy. I work on them when I can and there is a small group of us in my city that will vote for only Ron Paul in the next election, even if we have to write him in.
      All police officers swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. I know that many (just like many elected officials) forget that oath when confronted with adversity. There are also many (again, like the politicians) who took the oath but are not very knowledgable in regards to the Constitution. However I do think you would be surprised at how many keep that oath in mind and do their best to understand the Constitution and live up to it. Believe me – most police don’t want a police state and are just as bothered (probably more so) at the ones who abuse their position.

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    • Lonescrapper
      Posted on July 17, 2011 at 9:00am

      It seems pretty clear that the government think there are two major threats to our country: The Amish, and children selling things without a permit. Watch them crack down on school fundraisers this Autumn.

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  • JimConstitution
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:41am

    What is wrong with us? Laws are for adults or should be. A child is to be protected and cared for by all adults in the good ole USA. A childs right is LIFE, LIBERTY and a HAPPY one. Its adults that should see to it that happens. This includes the one million aborted ones each year. Shame on us for not living for our children until adulthood. Will these little girls now fear the PD in Midway? Will they fear to call 911? The mayor should should apologize and have a talk with the police in that PD. As a Georgian i am not pleased it happened here.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:20am

      I look at it like this!
      I have I ever bought a cup of lemonade from a kid on the street? The answer is, NO!
      As the officer stated you don’t know anything about it. It’s okay to feel victemized and to think your Innocent childeren are victems in this case, but what if the kids cross contaminated it? Ask one of those kids if there is a possibility it was. What would the expression on their face be? Confusion?!
      They were right.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:17am

      @ Yougottabe kidding…
      You gotta be kidding- just because you’re afraid to buy a glass of lemonade from some kids trying to make a few pennies, don’t think you have the right to not allow others, or let the girls have their stand. Commies like you are the reason we’re in such a mess today and the cops are hastling kids.

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    • lobster
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:36am

      Oh for crying out loud. Lemonade has a pH of about 4, it won’t support the life of bacteria. Get Real…

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    • NRAmedic23
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:39am

      You gotta be kidding,

      So you are absolutely positive about what goes into your food and drink at licensed places?

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    • the_ancient
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:45am

      I would trust that Stand over any Government Approved Food Place paying their Employees below minimum wage where they do god knows what to your food.

      But This kinda of crap, on a much larger scale, is the reason we have poor job growth, and the economy still stucks, when you have to have 4 different permits from probably at least 2 government agency just for a child to open a simple lemonade stand THERE IS A MASSIVE PROBLEM. and you can only image what someone must go through to open a real job producing business…. and why most people choose not to do so…..

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    • jjoy
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 12:57pm

      In my 72 years I have bought many a glass of lemonade sold by kids at their road-side stands, and have never had a problem from drinking it…

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:13pm

      To the idiot that called me a commie, I was in Nam where were you.You are an idiot!
      There are laws on the books and we do not get to pick and choose the laws that are enforced!! If you don’t like the law change it, only commies and idiots determin what laws they enforce.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:19pm

      @ yougottobekidding

      And people like you would be the fist to throw a lawsuit against these kids b/c they gave you a cracked cup and which ruined your shirt.

      You my friend are complete trash! So do all of us freedom loving Americans a favor; put on some concrete shoes and take a long walk off a short peer.

      TRASH!!!

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    • BlueStrat
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 6:53pm

      @YouGottaBeKidding

      First, thanks & respect for serving.

      You have a point about the laws being enforced. However, the problem is with selective enforcement. There are certain streets in my town that are open-air markets for drugs, with dealers standing around openly selling crack and even approaching cars at intersections, and users openly smoking crack right on the sidewalk.

      This activity goes on 24/7/365. Every couple years, a particularly-horrific multiple-homicide on one of the streets will receive some attention and the cops will patrol for a couple weeks, then enforcement stops and things return to “normal” and the dealers are back.

      But, just let some kids try to sell some lemonade! They’ll be lucky not to be tazed & arrested.

      I guess it’s a “nudge” towards the occupations government wants our children to be encouraged to follow. “You can’t have a lemonade stand little boy/girl, but we’ll ignore you if you carry a gun and sell crack to your classmates & neighbors.”

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    • JJj
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:29pm

      @YOUGOTTABEKIDDING, I doubt that you are from the Vietnam era. if so you will be the first one that I have ever heard talk the way you do, unless of course you are one of those that didn’t serve. You talk like a coward and I don‘t know to many Vietnam vets that are cowards as a matter of fact I don’t know any. Cross contamination you have to be kidding, do you walk outside with a mask over your face also, or are you to scared to leave the house.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:56pm

      @ yougottabekidding…………………….
      Do you think the law allows for bake sales, at least in churches, because everyone knows Moooochele thunder ass wouldn’t stand for them in schools? Couldn’t the baked goods be cross contaminated????
      Your logic is about as credible as the morons that shut down the lemonade stand. As for Vietnam, were you one of the idiots that ordered our young men to carry out missions without ammo, sounds like something you and John Carry might do????

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  • pazzo242
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:38am

    I sent my e-mail/letter and so should everyone else

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  • Brandi B
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:30am

    Good grief….I’m not even old enough to have grandchildren. I remember having Kool-Aid stands growing up. Just another kick in the face from the Obama run government that will steal money from anyone they can get it from. :( Absolutely disgusting!!!! If the American public was half as smart as they think they are, they would take a hint from Egypt!! We the people…and alll that.

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    • pazzo242
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:42am

      Okay–I no more like this then anyone else but really? You equate this to Obama? I have no use for that guy but that is truly a stretch to place this at his feet. This is a power hungry Chief of Police in some backwater small town and can’t make it in a real police department who knew she could bully 3 little girls, nothing more and nothing less. This IS NOT political.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 6:05am

      I wonder if the Girl Scouts need a license to peddle their cookies in front of Walmart?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:45am

      This isn’t the first time a lemonade stand has been shut down in GA so, frankly, the parents should have known better. Do I agree with it, NO. If there are concerns about how the lemonade was mixed, then don’t buy it, but usually close neighbors and friends are the ones participating to help the kids with their projects. If other ways are suggested they will probably regulate those too – I‘m surprised they aren’t required to have a ‘chore’ permit to help around the house. Oops, better not give them the idea.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:56am

    It’s time to make the lives of these cops very uncomfortable. Make them feel the scorn of the people.

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  • RepubliCorp
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:30am

    If they were illegal Mexicans cutting the grass they would have looked the other way

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:59am

      KELLI MORNINGSTAR
      Chief of Police
      EMail info@historicmidway.com

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    • duckman1911
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:43am

      So Very true. If they were black Al Sharpton would already be on the news talking about how this is a disgrace for the youth of the nation. Unfortunatly for these little girls they are white so no help from Al or Jesse….. Not that it was expected

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:47am

      If the girls were wearing burkas, they would have looked the other way.

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:31pm

      @ Republicorp

      Amen brother.

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  • SHOWMESTATEGUY
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:29am

    I have to take my hat off to the girls. They were trying. How long until the government requires a permit to do chores and yard work? Probably should not have said that, I can just hear the gears turning in some liberal head somewhere.

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  • pazzo242
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:29am

    I am a retired Tacoma, WA police officer and this is the type of thing that gives all cops a bad rap. When my partner and I would be on patrol we would deliberately stop at these stands to buy a cup of lemonade. If the cost was 50 cents we would give them a buck. All PD’s in the US talk about Community Oriented Policing and this act of stupidity violates every aspect of that program. This is not how a PD gets the public on their side and this action creates suspicion of police from the public.

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    • kolinsky44
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:45am

      I agree w/ you Mr. Officer. The police should have just ignored them for they’re just trying to raise money and selling lemonade is better than stealing money

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    • ExpertShot
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 7:52am

      I live about 10 miles from Midway in the Hinesville/Fort Stewart area (Home of the 3rd ID). Midway is so small, it has only one traffic light & that’s only where two major highways intersect. I don’t know much about this police chief other than to say she must not be from the area, as in most small towns, everyone knows everyone & wouldn’t stop some kids trying to develop a work ethic by earning their own money. What’s even more troubling is that TWO of the signers of the Declaration of Independence from Georgia lived in Midway & two prominent Generals from the Revolutionary War are buried there. These guys fought for the right to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”, yet the police chief shuts them down, makes no sense to me. LET THE GIRLS HAVE THEIR LEMONADE STAND!!

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    • Jack2011
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 9:50am

      You, Sir, are a true patriot AND human being for doing that.

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:17am

      Thank you sir.

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  • hudent
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:25am

    isntead of protecting this young generation of business people,they shut them down,they want these young girls to thing that goverment knows best..welcome to the soviet union.
    what the hell is going on here!!!

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:02am

      I mean, just look at the cops face in the image above. That tells you all you need to know. Big govt loving goon.

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  • colt1860
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:05am

    I wrote a polite email to the City:

    I recently read that a lemonade stand ran by a few kids was shutdown. I’m glad to hear that capitalism, the free market, individual liberty, and self dependence is still encouraged and not restricted here in the good old Soviet Socialist Union of America. Great job in going after those little pesky kids. They need to be taught that they can’t be free and enjoy the fruit of their labor without the Government having its “fair” share and say. They must learn that when in need they must apply for welfare or some other Government ran program or licensing scheme. They should have known that in America they cannot be at liberty to aspire to be entrepreneurs and act on that spirit, especially if using their own property, money, time and effort.

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  • Rational Man
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:01am

    Beck was right!….I am already starting to not recognize my country anymore………….

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    • Live Slowly
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:06am

      How about this… If the girls are doing yard work after you shut down their lemonade stand you better cite them for not having an agricultural license. If anyone says ya‘ll are wrong for doing these things just tell them about the laws restricting jews from owning businesses or land in pre WWII germany and the law abiding officers who were just doing their jobs enforcing the ’Law of the Land’ when they carted them off. Thank God for officers like this applying their sense of impartiallity to the law. The U.S. would not be the country it is with out them.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 3:00am

    This cop was disgusting.. we don’t know how its made in a restaurant either, I remember watching a video of a guy peeing a a girls mixed drink behind a bar. Shame on you Midway, shame, shame, shame!

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    • RugDog
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:16am

      That cop, like most all cops was a maggot piece of steamy pile.

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  • Biff Marupis
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:59am

    I live in GA and I’m surprised this happened. I expected it to be somewhere close to Atlanta. I always say there‘s Atlanta then there’s GA…

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:56am

    It should read, young entreprenuers shut down so they will never try again. This my dear people is a way to keep our children and grandchildren from ever learning how to make a living. How very innocent to sell lemonade or koolaid and have a police officer do this to them. I would be ashamed to call this city police or town council mine. I would be at their next meeting raising holy hell. Come on people stand up for these kids. Be Patriots to them, or heros! Show them that they work for you, you are their bosses! Stand up and be somebody.. are we minions! Soon we will be in bondage. Stop this madness!

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    • Mil-Dot
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:07am

      No, you see, they and all other State, Local and Fed govt and the leech govt employees believe that we work for THEM-not the other way around. It is just a matter of time before this whole place goes up in flames. Not if, just when.

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:49am

    It’s all about squashing the Capitalistic instinct inherent in children. Can’t have young people thinking you can actually work and earn your keep without getting permission of the State, now, can we?

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    • ecurbyy
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 10:23am

      Makes me think of a commercial I happened to see on television where a young girl got an I-pad as a gift from here dad, and in one day she was CEO of her own huge corporation. Yeah right! This is a perfect example of how difficult it is to start any new business due to useless laws and those that legislate and those that enforce them. For the first time in my adult life I feel ashamed of my country, Thanks Obamao.

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:38am

    Here is an Email address for Midway Georgia for any of you interested in politely telling them what you think.

    info@historicmidway.com

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  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:31am

    They should open up a DEMOCRAT WELFARE STAND and just stand there with their hands out accepting money. The police can’t shut that down. Heck – they would encourage it.

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  • nptden
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:29am

    Welcome to Communism. The progressive commies have been instituting their Karl Marx control tactics for years. Why do you think most of them became lawyers. Those who make the rules and regulations are in control. The commies have usurped our system. What ‘majority’ of citizens believe to control a kids lemonade stand is correct. Only those who have been brain-washed by a progressive commie educational system believe this may be correct, regardless of what the majority want.

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  • larry25427
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:27am

    Good call there, officer scrooge.

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  • endgamer
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:21am

    So much for learning how to run a business. Regulations get in the way and you’re shut down. Even if you‘re a 5 year old selling lemonade for american currency that’s worthless anyway. $50 a day to have a peddlers permit? The girls would have to sell 50 glasses at $1.00 each to pay for the permit and they haven’t purchased the lemons yet or allocated their time.. The problem is, life didn’t give the kids lemons to make lemonade, It would have gone to the government first . Where can I send the kids some money and tell the police chief in Midway, GA to shove it!

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  • silentwatcher
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:20am

    So what makes that any different than buying lemonade in a cafe? or 711? or any convenience mart? The laws have become so twisted that they cannot be FAIRLY enforced anymore. What happened to “common sense prevails?” Guess there isn’t any anymore.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:26am

      How about “U.S. voters shut down U.S. government for operating without intelligence?

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:42am

      What gets me is in some cities “law enforcement” will turn a blind eye to illegal aliens, but turn around and bust a crime family, distributing a dangerous lemon substance that alters the hapless victim’s mental health and makes them happy and quenches their thirst. And profit off of the refreshing bliss they create!….. Dispicable little brats!!
      The whole world is going crazy!!

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    • Oldphoto678
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 4:32am

      “So what makes that any different than buying lemonade in a cafe? or 711? or any convenience mart?”

      Health inspections to make sure that the lemonade was made under sanitary conditions for one thing you ignorant moron.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:28am

      @Oldphoto678

      I‘d worry far more about buying lemonade that’s been “government inspected” than I‘d ever worry about lemonade from a kid’s stand.

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  • SavingtheRepublic.com
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:18am

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    Question is WHO is the NAZI that initiated the removal of their stand. Find out who that is and where they stand politically. I will bet they are liberal progressive, I cannot see a street cop doing this. Someone, a radical imo, saw this and reported these children.

    Its deplorable I will be most of the Blazers here along with staff did this when they were a kid. This is complete insanity enough is enough OUT the people who are responsible. Turn their lives upside down I will bet they have broken some rules themselves!
    Let He Who Is Without Sin Cast The First Stone….
    SavingtheRepublic.com

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  • CatB
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:16am

    I guess that will show those “kids” .. don’t try to earn money in business in the USSA … it is no longer “business friendly” … who are they hurting? and yes .. it is usually other neighborhood kids and parents who buy from neighborhood stands .. from people they KNOW like these girls.

    Give me a D BREAK!

    TEA!

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    • Wayner
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:27am

      Did “Barnice” get her rocks off by playing big bad cop?

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  • Captain Crunch
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:12am

    Welcome to the new Amerika.

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  • ArgumentumAdAbsurdum
    Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:11am

    Does anyone actually ever buy lemonade from a lemonade stand?

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    • Captain Crunch
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:14am

      As a matter of fact, Yes. Just cant be paranoid about everything.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:50am

      If I ran across one run by a couple of kids, I would buy a cup in a heartbeat.

      Leave it to government agents, like some police, to get all dented over a thing like this instead of dealing with real crimes. Heck–in my day, if some kids had a lemonade stand, cops would probably stop and buy a cup, too.

      What a miserable world we’ve created–thanks to liberals.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 2:55am

      I’ll go out of my way to buy lemonade from cute girls who are running their first honest business venture!….Besides,….I like lemonade…………

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    • robert
      Posted on July 16, 2011 at 8:00am

      Here’s just one more example of why cutting back the police and government employees is probably the only good thing that has come from this economic downturn.

      If all they have to do is pursue frivolous unimportant incidents like this, then they’re way over staffed.

      Here‘s hoping this particular police force will either be cut back so severely it won’t have time for nonsense pursuits or it’s disbanded altogether. I’m betting these authorities are whining about having their budget cut also. If they’ not in a bind financially, they will be soon, and that will be a good thing.

      $50 per day, plus $180 per year for a license is no more than a revenue acquiring gimmick by corrupt demagogues rife within these governmental jurisdictions. Costs like that certainly aren’t justified.

      I’ve notice the small towns in my area, plus the sheriff’s office and especially the Highway Patrol, are lurking around everywhere writing tickets as if there’s no tomorrow, hoping to bring enough money in to keep whatever authorities are involved from going under.

      We need more citizen defense groups and fewer police.

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