Kids Fined $500 for Operating Lemonade Stand Outside U.S. Open
- Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:28am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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This seems like a good time to quote Gawker:
What’s worse than a story about how a group of children were fined $500 by Montgomery County for operating a lemonade stand without a permit outside the site of this weekend’s US Open? How about the fact that they were going to donate their proceeds to a pediatric cancer-fighting charity?
See, officials in the Maryland County found it just flat out wrong that a group of kids would find the audacity to sell lemonade to golf patrons. According to WUSA-TV, a county inspector happened upon the kids’ stand near Congressional, the host course for the U.S. Open, and warned the kids and their parents to cease and desist. They didn’t. So the inspector handed them a $500 fine.
“This gentleman from the county is now telling us because we don’t have a vendors license, the kids won’t be allowed to sell their lemonade,” Carrie Marriott, one of the parents, told WUSA.
“Does every kid who sells lemonade now have to register with the county?” she asked the inspector. His response? The stand was too big to avoid scrutiny.
“Cute little kids making five or ten dollars is a little bit different than making hundreds. You’ve got coolers and coolers here,” he said.
As for the kids, they’re upset too.
“I don’t agree, I think the county is wrong,” said one. “We’re sending the money to charity,” said another.
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Comments (118)
boca_chica
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:23amIt’s no different than the gun laws-only the legal people will be harrassed by “the man”. It’s too dangerous to go after the crooks. When I was building my house( owner builder) the inspector had me doing all the code items that are required. I walked down the street where another house was being built by a “contractor” and the items I had to do were Not being done on that house. Selective enforcement is all over the country-blame corruption, greed or simple stupidity, and maybe a little hate. Don’t expect it to change, maybe get worse in this economy.
Report Post »Lemonade Grandma
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:13amCALLING ALL KIDS……..I say it’s time to declare a new national holiday…….NATIONAL LEMONADE STAND DAY…..August 6th 2011.
Lemonade stands are an American tradition. It’s how we teach our children about CAPITALISM. I had lemonade stands when I was a kid and now my grandchildren have them every summer.
I for one am sick and tired of it. Help me get the word out…….it’s simple, facebook all your friends and on Aug 6th have a lemonade stand at the end of your driveway (or any other place to tick them off), make sure you have a video camera handy.
Take a STAND for CAPITALISM folks.
shelleyfhill@yahoo.com
Report Post »chinsue32
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:45amThey should have done it like this.
Report Post »“Free Lemonade with donation to charity”
Then they cant be accused of operating a business.
3katmomma
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:45amDustyluv, be careful. By federal law any payment over $.50 in pennies, $2.00 in nickles, $5.00 in dimes, or $10.00 in quarters, and I believe $20.00 in half dollars in loose change (these are the amounts of the coin rolls) is not considered legal tender, and business are not required to accept them as payment. Try going into bank with $2.00 in loose pennies to deposit them. They will hand you coin roll sheaths and have you roll them up before you deposit them.
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:46amThey will walk over drop them in the change counter write you a deposit slip and off you go.
Secondly your claim that LAWFUL MONEY can be refused is absurd. I helped a buddy pay $23,000 property tax payment in PENNIES. Sat there for 5 hours watching all the public servants count them out.
I suggest you learn the difference between LAWFUL money used to PAY your debt and “legal” tender used to DISCHARGE your debts. Learn what “discharge means”. You lack the ability to pay your debts UNLESS you use change. Federal reserve notes are NOT money. They are private paper which YOU are charged to use.
Report Post »ForTheRepublic
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:43amfined $500 for a lemonade stand
Report Post »while Weiner get a $37k a year pension.
hmm, makes ya think don’t it.
LovinUSA
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:40amI find it amazing that these so called inspectors, of that county are being paid by the county people and they have nothing better to do than pick on little kids and fine their parents. Makes you wonder what they do the rest of the time.
Report Post »tbconrad
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:35amput the boot on the throat of small business. It’s the liberal way. Had the kids formed a union they would have been ok.
Report Post »Digger-HR
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:22amLesson learned: How dare these young children attempt to help other people without allowing the government to take at least 50% in administration costs and then give the other 50% to those in need. What are you trying to do kids? Show the government that we the people can take care of ourselves without the nanny-state stepping in. Welcome to the U.S.S.A. I’m surprised no one from the S.E.I.U. showed up to demand you pay your union dues.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:17amholder will get right on this case. After all, this is a heinous crime against the state…and the kids didn’t have the requisite Move On person, illegal immigrant, or muslim working the stand…and they weren’t members of any public union.
Report Post »I‘d say that’ll be good for at least 20 years.
nomercy63
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:15amWe can do nothing without their approval! The government controls everything! These kids cant operate lemonade stand but they are building 2 houses next to mine, over 100 workers, plumbers Mexican, framers Mexican, Concrete layers Mexican, A/C Mexican, roofers Mexican and the list goes on! You have lost your country long ago and now just have the illusion of what you once believed in!
Report Post »BBomber66
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:15amRegulations are are used to limit entrepreneurship. It starts small and grows. The cost of a cab medallion in NYC costs $100K. Why? To keep out competition. It’s bureaucracy run amok. The guy couldn’t think for himself. Give ‘em a warning if you have to do something, but a $500 fine. Stupid is a stupid does.
Report Post »evilhatemonger
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:12amIt would seem the Dept of Education SWAT team was unavailable.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:10amLand of the free?? Maryland=Blue State=Liberal mindset=insanity/meanspiritedness.Oh, and then there is this: Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised “Meet The Press’.
From Sunday’s 07 Sept. 2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised “Meet the Press” THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn’ USAF (ret.) asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn’t follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171…
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, “Stand and Face It”.
NOW GET THIS !!
‘Senator’ Obama replied:
“As I’ve said about the flag pin, I don’t want to be perceived as taking sides”. “There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression..“ ”The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing.”
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued: “The National Anthem should be ‘swapped’ for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song ‘I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing’. If that were our ant
Report Post »miles from nowhere
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:01amYou have got to be kidding, fining children 500 dollars for a stand, its a wonder the cops did not do a drive shooting and kill these kids. I can not believe the stupidity of law enforcement these days.
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:00amThis is a minute example of what small business owners and potential entrepreneurs deal with on a daily basis.
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Report Post »vtxphantom
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:59amNow is the time to teach your kids about the black market. Sell out of the basement or I’m sure the kids could find some abandoned building to form their lemonade dens. Gotta have my lemonade fix.
Report Post »Time to change this fascist government people.
christos
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:53am…….They can’t keep their $ grubby hands off anyone,couldn’t they have just given her a warning,as for the guy parking cars in his privately owned land,what’s it their business,their into everything $ GRUBBING MEDDLERS/LOSERS,
Report Post »szig
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:30am“a county inspector happened upon the kids’ stand near Congressional, the host course for the U.S. Open, and warned the kids and their parents to cease and desist. They didn’t. So the inspector handed them a $500 fine.”
Report Post »christos
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 10:28am@SZIG–That county will surely welcome & embrace the N.W.O.,that will be their lot,some 30 years ago till now when do you show courage & quit riding in the back of the bus,if not now when,for some never,will they quit meddling,
Report Post »jtm
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:48amI have found that whenever an inspector is required, whether for building or swimming pools, etc., etvc., they all turn out to be jackasses.
Report Post »Upstate SC
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 3:54pmGonna have to agree with you own that one….To some its gives them a god complex.
Report Post »2010GOP
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:39amThe county needs the sales tax and the permit fee to distribute benefits to those that can’t do anything -like sell lemonade…. the local governments are broke, they are finding ways to fine, levy, tax, permit, license, control, more and more of our lives everyday. We have been referring to this stuff for decades as the nanny state, but we have been complicit in that we continued to allow it to happen, now over those decades we are seeing the oppressive hand of the government pounding us from the top, bottom, and within… its the way of the social justice group, infiltrate, manipulate, discount the law, and then place a boot on our neck… stop this stuff, kids learn a lot from a lemonade stand.
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:38amdont pay the ticket
the fastest way to stop this cr@p is to just ignore it . refuse to pay the ticket, refuse to go to court. refuse the police when they come to take you away ……………….and get it all on video
then use the power of the media against them like they use it against us
its time to make a stand ………………….perhaps a lemonade stand ?
Report Post »lcam67
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:56am@PSYCHOSIS
I like it . Flip it on them. A new American revolution. One lemonade stand at a time !!!
TEA & LEMONADE
Report Post »Lemonade Grandma
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:22amI agree…..I have declared Aug 6th 2011 a new national holiday……NATIONAL LEMONADE STAND DAY.
Let’s protest government regulations…….ticketing little kids for selling lemonade…..That‘s the straw on the camel’s back.
Aug 6th…………have a lemonade stand………have a video camera.
Report Post »Upstate SC
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 3:51pmOkay…This is the best idea I’ve read so far. Those evil, hostile lemonade stands have pop up all over America. Quick some call Eric Holder, we have got to stop this…Gees
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:37amHope and change…..they are not just words
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:55amI think not: “HOPE no one notices while I CHANGE America”
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:36amMore rotten government. Little kids trying to earn a buck in the summer. God please curse those that take our innocent freedoms away.
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:44amYes
Report Post »szig
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 12:28amIs the god that is going to curse them the same one that said “give unto caesar what is caesar’s?”
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:36am.
Report Post »Must be Republicans……….Damn the Horror…………..
Rob
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:35amThe more powerful the government is, the less freedom we have.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 2:14pmGovernment out of money …
Report Post »Hey let’s get the kids !!!!!!!!!
butler180
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:31amGovernment gone amuck
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:37amThe US Open is NOT a Government-sponsored event, and the fines are typical of the Profit-making licensees – who need to make a cut of even a child-like enterprise based on the Golf event.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:39amPay the fine in pennies….add a very thin coat of pancake syrup (just a few drops) to them and let it dry first…I got a ticket in a speeed trap and thats how I paid the fine…It was very funny to see them have to count it out They were not happy…It was worth the wait to get my paid receipt…
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:41amFreedoms lost=Ignorance gained.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:44amWhen I saw the word “Maryland”, then I understood.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:46amYet the geniuses in our government can’t figure out why businesses are leaving the US. Instead, Obama would rather blame ATM machines and automated kiosks. It truly is amateur hour at the white house.
Report Post »Eraldo NY Tea Party
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:48amLet’s vote the liberals out, for the sake of our country.
God bless.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:07amMaybe we should stage a 1,000,000 lemonade-stand protest?
Or a lemon-tea party? Dump lemons on their lawns?
I can just hear those evil children, “curse you! We’d have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling fascists, and your dog, oscoobama, too!” lol
Rational minds would have simply asked them to move it to a more appropriate location.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:09amOut of control government once again.
Report Post »Swordsmansmith
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:19amAnd… You were warned and chose to ignore it so you got fined. Pay your fine. Every other vendor has a license. You think youre the only ones there for charity? You can sell drinks for 5$ each and people line up for it at golf tournaments. Get your license next time and quit trying to be unfair to everyone who got their license and obeyed the rules
Report Post »chinsue32
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:44amThey should have done it like this.
Report Post »“Free Lemonade with donation to charity”
Min donation $2
poverty.sucks
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:47amDrag the kids into court so they see what happens when their parents fail to respect laws and ordinances. Force the parents to submit proper paper work and business plan that outlines the details of operating that small business.
Teach the kids to take life seriously and have a plan. Raising money isn’t a fairy tale.
Report Post »TheAnswerTo1984is1776
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:49amThis is what a police state looks like.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:53amASK YOURSELVES…WHAT is this REALLY about? Killing the ENTREPRENEURIAL-ISM of American Youth. Thinkaboutit.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:03amchildren are too young to register for permits or pay taxes. they don’t need to by law. sue them.
Report Post »Dale
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:05amPerhaps there should be licenses required for: charlie wrangler, weiner (license plates), william jefferson, george ryan, dan rostenkowski, rod blagojevich, and so many more! LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:23amSomebody has to pay for the pervert, Weiner’s 1.28M Package of benefits.
New DEMOCRAT Tagline
Report Post »“SCREW the Children, Antnee wants his”.
poverty.sucks
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:28amWe don‘t live in the 70’s anymore. Society today doesn’t permit our kids to wander around trying things out and learning by making mistakes or just being carefree. Too many Liberals and Lawyers out there. A kid can put up a juice stand just as an adult can, follow procedures is fair. Today‘s society can’t discriminate.
Report Post »wildbill_b
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:37amThat ridiculous assault on them is EASILY dismissed. IGNORANCE of law and who we are is what allows this absurd crap. The state has NO AUTHORITY whatsoever to infer with private contracts. Hale v Hinkel 201 U. S. 43:
The individual may stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen. He is entitled to carry on his private business in his own way. His power to contract is unlimited. He owes no duty to the State or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to criminate him. He owes no such duty to the State, since he receives nothing therefrom beyond the protection of his life and property. His rights are such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in accordance with the Constitution. Among his rights are a refusal to incriminate himself and the immunity of himself and his property from arrest or seizure except under a warrant of the law. He owes nothing to the public so long as he does not trespass upon their rights.
Upon the other hand, the corporation is a creature of the State. It is presumed to be incorporated for the benefit of the public. It receives certain special privileges and franchises, and holds them subject to the laws of the State and the limitations of its charter. Its powers are limited by law. It can make no contract not authorized by its charter.
END OF STORY.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 11:55amPATTY HENRY, I agree with you. Government wants control of everything these days. I‘ve heard it said that Gates couldn’t have created Microsoft in today’s environment. Think of all the innovation we’ll never know because of this. Part of the over all plan for the decline of the USA. It amazes me to see so many on this site defend this stupidity.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:29pmI am sick and tired of the Government doing this to kids and killing their entremaneual spirit.
Here is the name and number and email address of the person that says she stands behind the act.
Jennifer Hughes, Acting Director
Report Post »jennifer.hughes@montgomerycountymd.gov 240-777-6364
PubliusPencilman
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:40pmSorry folks. In a free and equal republic the rules apply to everyone. Even white people.
It seems that the only thing consistent about the Tea Party’s principles is that they only apply when it is convenient to its ideology. You folks wave around the Constitution, but many of you seem shocked that a country would be so bold as to govern itself. God forbid people should choose for themselves!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 12:58pmPlease forgive my spelling in above post I was going to go back and check but hit reply before I sent.
Report Post »“ entrepreneurial ”
sbish
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 1:20pmExhibit 1: Why I live in Virginia and not Maryland.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 2:15pmMONICNE
Report Post »Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:37am
The US Open is NOT a Government-sponsored event …
_____________________________________
Who issued the ticket ?
TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 2:45pmPubliusPencilman, the kids being white or not white has nothing to do with anything. You’re just being a race-baiter, and a poor one at that.
I know this is really hard for liberals to understand, so I’ll use small words. People prosper financially when there are fewer regulations. That doesn’t me NO regulations either, so I’ll stop you before you make that lame argument.
Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.
Report Post »click_name_4_impeachment
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 3:09pmwhy should you have to pay 300 dollars to get permission from the government to rent out parking space on YOUR OWN property……It’s like it becoming a crime to make money….this is not going to be the land of opportunity for very long….for those who want to point fingers at capitalism and say that is what keeps people down and in poverty……look at this, and you can see what keeps people down…..regulation….not capitalism…
Report Post »PubliusPencilman
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 3:18pmFewer regulations but not no regulations. Government is the problem… blah blah blah. Please try to think outside of these completely contentless talking points/cliches (if you can). You say “people” prosper when there are few regulations, but of course we mean here a very small and specific few people–like the CEOs that profited from the financial wizardry that led to our ongoing economic crisis. Somehow these points seem to escape your empty sloganeering.
But let’s not confuse the issue: the country had rules, the parents and kids were breaking the rules, they were warned, and so they have to pay the fine. Pretty cut and dry here. This is clearly a local issue, regardless of how you feel about regulations, and you should not begrudge the county the right to run its own government.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 3:53pmPubliusPencilman, let take it from someone who actually deals with the regulatory environment and let him explain why jobs are not being created. Take about 5½ minutes to listen to this CEO explain it. You will certainly agree, if it were your capital you were risking, you would also be very cautious. Especially with a President who has said publicly he wants to “Spread the wealth around”. That is a Communist idea with nicer wording. Watch the video; I’ll be interested in your reply.
http://www.popmodal.com/video/7914/CEO-Andy-Puzder-on-Cavuto-Economics-101-Why-the-economy-is-not-responding-to-Obamanomics
Socialism and Communism are for the feeble-minded, inept and lazy. Which one are you, PubliusPencilman?
Report Post »click_name_4_impeachment
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 4:13pmI don‘t know what others said I didn’t read all the comments, but as for me I didn’t say NO regulations, I was just pointing out that regulation does far more to keep people down, than capitalism does.
And yes I do think 95% of regulation is a bunch of B S….Why not just have common sense and punish the ones that are caught doing wrong, instead of making it harder for people to conduct or start a business just to try to regulate a problem away. You can not regulate a problem away…once you put regulation to paper it is open to interpretation and it becomes a lot more complicated……
Report Post »dnnyshdy
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 4:44pmWOW.I’m stunned,about the fine and that the idiot’s are paying that much to park.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 6:03pmIt’s all about the sales tax ….. increased steadily over the past 20 years in a slight of hand move to cover the so called cuts in income tax. Regressive in its nature and a good example of the BS Republican claim of actually cutting taxes.
Report Post »Pelling1020
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 7:29pmThis is absolutely obscene and anti american. These little twerps are just trying to take profits under the table to avoid income tax to our goverment.
Report Post »Professional Infidel
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 9:21pmSolving big problems. This will do it.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 17, 2011 at 10:11pmI hope the Kids take it to court and win and the county has to pay mega dollars to the pediatric cancer-fighting charity?
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on June 18, 2011 at 6:48amthe kids lucky he wasn’t sent to a FEMA camp or groped by the TSA
http://www.infowars.com/texas-state-officials-groped-by-tsa-as-punishment/
http://lewrockwell.com/thornton/thornton48.1.html
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