Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: cassandra and sara's daddy on June 18, 2011, 12:31:16 PM
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/montgomery-tries-to-put-the-squeeze-on-lemonade-stand/2011/06/17/AGJ9fWZH_story.html
illegal lemonade stand
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Again?
Don't those folks learn from past experiences?
Oops, sorry. My mistake. Forgot - they are "from the gooberment and here to make sure you follow the rules". :police:
Seems like every summer we get at least one more story about them cracking down on little kids trying thrir first experiment is capitalism.
stay safe.
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wrong kids to try that on
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Montgomery officials were chastened but unapologetic.
“It wasn’t that we were the big hand of county government trying to come down and squash anything. It was, we’re trying to find a solution to a problem,” said Jennifer Hughes, acting director for Montgomery’s Department of Permitting Services.
And that problem is ...?
Bloody morons. Having a lemonade stand is a right of passage for American kids. If the State of Maryland and this county have fiscal issues, I can think of a couple of places to start down-sizing right quick.
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we had a health dept nimrod here shutting down church bake sales the pies have to be refrigerated don't you know.
my favorite was a young nimrod in alexandria wrote me up for "improper handling of food product" i asked him "what is the product? " he said "i don't know"
"if you don't know how can you tell if i'm handling it right? is your boss still rick? lets call him"