Originally Posted by Sly

This same issue comes up about once a month in national news. Kids set up a lemonade stand where it's going to cause some sort of problem for this reason or that, they get warned to move the stand or get proper permits, the parents of the kids refuse to move the stand or get proper permits, family gets a fine for a lemonade stand and then there is a big hoorah because a couple poor kids got a fine. Boohoo.

Attention whorism at its best.