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u-Bob · 07-05-2011, 06:36 PM

50 lemonade stands and I'm calling it a night.

garce · 07-05-2011, 06:51 PM

$500 is cheap. Try setting up a lemonade stand up here at Yonge and Bloor and see how much sympathy you get.

Event or no event, you can't have people setting up shop wherever the fuck they want. The idiot parents should be bitch slapped and possibly investigated for exploiting their own children. Are their no applicable child labour laws?

UBob - that good old "free market" is working wonders : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...s-out-of-money (Random link - there's millions more...)

Bull Smoke · 07-05-2011, 06:55 PM

I don't see what the big deal is. Although as an inspector, I'd probably just quietly ask them to close rather than to issue a fine that can't be enforced against a child anyhow.

PornoMonster · 07-05-2011, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Just like Governments use "safety", "the public welfare", national security",... to gain more power and impose higher taxes and a constant stream of fines onto the people. That's what this is really about.

first they came for the lemonade stands....

Two wrongs make a right?

PornoMonster · 07-05-2011, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Bull Smoke

I don't see what the big deal is. Although as an inspector, I'd probably just quietly ask them to close rather than to issue a fine that can't be enforced against a child anyhow.

They did ask them to leave several times.
The fine was given to the parents. It was also later dropped.

CDSmith · 07-05-2011, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by u-Bob

Secondly: lemonade stands, hotdog carts, hamburger carts,... none of those would stay at any location for a long time if no one was buying their products. The fact that people were buying lemonade or the fact that people at other events were buying hotdogs and hamburgers proves that people valued the services (the sale of cold lemonade, hotdogs, hamburgers,...) that were being offered otherwise people wouldn't be willing to hand over their money in exchange for those products. It's a great thing, it's called the free market.

Whether the product is selling or not is irrelevant.

Q; should those kids be allowed to set up their lemonade stand in front of, let's say, a restaurant? What about in front of one of those burger and soda stands? Where do you draw the line and enforce the rules?

Let me put it another way. If you don't like an existing bylaw, change it. The legal way. Petition elected officials to do something about it. You'll at least if anything find out what reasons they have for keeping it in place. But to just flout the law and set up shop wherever you FEEL is okay to, then ignore warnings to move by local officials, then cry about getting fined? Sorry, no sale.

Maybe I'll go set up my family yard sale at the entrance to the mall this weekend. :D

adultchatpay · 07-06-2011, 03:21 AM

now the $500 goes somewhere...

dazzling · 07-06-2011, 03:43 AM

Its not just in the United States this silly interference in peoples live is happening, its all over Western countries and its getting worse. God fuckin knows how bad it will be 100 years from now.

jigg · 07-06-2011, 04:25 AM

apparently the kids are grandchildren of the Mariott (hotels) Augustine (Lockheed Martin) families. They had a 10 foot by 10 foot tent with coolers and 50% of the proceeds went to charity.

county waived the $500 fine after the parents agreed to move the lemonade stand 100ft from where it was
http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.a...=1001342238001

original report: http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.a...d=997423496001

Phoenix · 07-06-2011, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by jigg

apparently the kids are grandchildren of the Mariott (hotels) Augustine (Lockheed Martin) families. They had a 10 foot by 10 foot tent with coolers and 50% of the proceeds went to charity.

county waived the $500 fine after the parents agreed to move the lemonade stand 100ft from where it was
http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.a...=1001342238001

original report: http://www.wusa9.com/video/default.a...d=997423496001

oh sure officer we will comply
im also going to get my army of vampire lawyers to call your boss
one second please..lol

czarina · 07-06-2011, 05:49 AM

what a bunch of a*holes!

u-Bob · 07-06-2011, 06:42 AM

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Originally Posted by garce

UBob - that good old "free market" is working wonders : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...s-out-of-money (Random link - there's millions more...)

I hope you are not implying that the USA somehow is a free market. The USA has a mixed economy.

the free market: Voluntary exchange. People who produce products and deliver service other people value and are willing to pay for. Producers who can only increase their market share by either lowering the price of the products they are selling or by improving the quality.
the free market is a system where people who produce goods and service other people want are rewarded and where irresponsible wasteful behavior is punished.

In the current mixed economy the irresponsible get bailed out, corporations are allowed to violate other people's property rights, oil companies are encouraged to take what otherwise would have been unnecessary risks because now the government just forces the taxpayer to pay for the damage when there's an accident,....

etc

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07-05-2011, 06:51 PM	#52
garce Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Toronto Posts: 7,103	$500 is cheap. Try setting up a lemonade stand up here at Yonge and Bloor and see how much sympathy you get. Event or no event, you can't have people setting up shop wherever the fuck they want. The idiot parents should be bitch slapped and possibly investigated for exploiting their own children. Are their no applicable child labour laws? UBob - that good old "free market" is working wonders : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...s-out-of-money (Random link - there's millions more...)

07-05-2011, 06:55 PM	#53
Bull Smoke Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 115	I don't see what the big deal is. Although as an inspector, I'd probably just quietly ask them to close rather than to issue a fine that can't be enforced against a child anyhow.

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