Florida Man Asks Police to Shut Down Kid's "Illegal" Lemonade Stand

[Origanalist]

Face it, the Boomers chasing self-gratification is what brought America down. I can tell a distinct difference in attitude in Boomers vs. everyone else.

And there's a reason for it - the Boomer experience is different from everyone else's. Boomers rode a generation-long debt bubble, stealing outright from their own posterity, the losses of which are manifest in government debt.

They did NOT have the experience of a mid- or early-career economic depression. They did not have to buy their homes at ridiculous, bubble-inflated prices. They did not have to pay much, if anything at all, for college. They were given all the benefits of the most prosperous nation ever to exist, and chose to hoard it for themselves and share nothing with future generations. I could go on all day on the differences in the Boomer experience, but suffice it to say that the generation as a whole can safely be labeled as spoiled rotten brats to a degree that no other generation, not even the Millenials, can come close.

Naturally, everyone is an individual and this doesn't apply to every individual.

How old are you? I'm getting real sick of you finger pointers. It must be nice to blame other people, you don't have to look in the mirror. I was 23 with three kids when 1981 came around, I'm sure you weren't around to see it, but things weren't exactly rosy at the time.

Maybe y'all should take a look at yourselves instead of blaming those who came before. I don't see any great reformations happening at the moment.

I could go on all day on the differences in the Boomer experience

You and a lot of others who like to make themselves feel better by pointing fingers.

 

[phill4paul]

I'm an old crank.

I've owned homes. Including one in a neighborhood.

I got no problem with a kid making an honest buck. I would have rented him the space myself. This is a business learning experience is it not? Might cost him some drinks.

If I weren't lucky enough to get him in my yard and I lived a house over I would have made it a point to be a patron. And got to know the neighborhood kids and future hooligans. It's called being neighborly and, well, it is a neighborhood.

 

[pcosmar]

to temper the idealistic noise of the twenty-somethings with the reasonable-ness that comes with age.

57,, tomorrow.. and I have had a fair share of asshole neighbors over the years.

now my closest is 3/4 mile away..

 

[willwash]

I propose local governments publish a nanny offender registry right next to the sex offender registry. Those grumpmy old nannys would likely lower prroperty values more than 13 year old boys selling lemondade.

assume you are joking but you have something there. Perhaps a smartphone app or simple website database of busybody activity to help people in homebuying decisions.

 

[69360]

The kid should handle this the old fashioned way. TP the complainer's trees or leave a flaming bag of poo on his porch, ring the bell and run.

 

[thoughtomator]

How old are you? I'm getting real sick of you finger pointers. It must be nice to blame other people, you don't have to look in the mirror. I was 23 with three kids when 1981 came around, I'm sure you weren't around to see it, but things weren't exactly rosy at the time.

Maybe y'all should take a look at yourselves instead of blaming those who came before. I don't see any great reformations happening at the moment.

You and a lot of others who like to make themselves feel better by pointing fingers.

Why are you acting all defensive? Do you think you are part of those responsible for the things I noted? Or are you going to make the highly implausible assertion that those things didn't happen?

I'm Gen X - the first, and most experienced, of those shit on all their lives by the Boomers. Full grown adult with decades of real world experience. I watched while the Boomers transformed the free nation they were given into the totalitarian police/klepto state that we have now.

I was there when they put up 20' steel fencing - the kind appropriate for prisons - around public schools which previously had open grounds. I witnessed the manifestations of Boomer guilt coalesce into hardcore political correctness. I watched the national debt go from a small percentage of GDP to exceeding it. I watched all of the things we complain of today come into being co-incident with the rise of Boomer political power.

Face it, the US Boomer generation is at least the most arrogant and selfish generation since that which destroyed Rome, if not ever.

 

[CPUd]

This is clearly a false flag- initiated by the kid himself to get press and grow his customer base.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Why are middle-aged and older people always so selfish? You'd think they'd give a little for people who have so much life left in front of them, but they really don't seem to care about anyone other than themselves and their families. Does it have something to do with the baby boomers?

 

[thoughtomator]

Why are middle-aged and older people always so selfish? You'd think they'd give a little for people who have so much life left in front of them, but they really don't seem to care about anyone other than themselves and their families. Does it have something to do with the baby boomers?

They don't call themselves "the Me generation" for nothing.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Really? What a dumb thing to say. Of course there are no douchebags in other generations...

Nobody's saying that, but it really seems like baby boomers think an awful lot of themselves and not much for the kids.

 

[idiom]

This is a business learning experience is it not?

The whole point of lemon stands is learning the basics of business. I remember in middle school the whole class played simulated lemonade stand, with everyone in the class competing on what resources they will spend on ingredients, signs etc, given the predicted weather. It all got entered into the computer and the results called out, and you simulated the next day. Good times.

This kid is learning the true principals of American Business. If you don't have the government in your pocket, you lose.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

lol

I'm going to guess you're around 22 or 23 and never owned a home. pretty close?

how about the kid set up in an empty lot? maybe the nearby retail strip center?

say you're in Colorado, and the kid wants to sell some joints. No problem?

How about just regular cigarettes for that matter? Buy 'em cheap in Oklahoma, go to New York city where they are $12 bucks a pack and set up shop in front of Aunt Gertrude's house?

You're letting the cuteness factor sway your common sense.

So as you get older and get more stuff, you lose respect for liberty and gain a heightened sense of importance for oneself. Good to know.

What makes your property more special than the person's across the street?

 

[PaulConventionWV]

lol

beat me to it

You definitely changed your tone quick.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

to temper the idealistic noise of the twenty-somethings with the reasonable-ness that comes with age.

So violating property rights is reasonable-ness. Got it.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

If you don't support the right of someone elses municipality somewhere else in the country to have zoning laws than perhaps you are the "statist"? How is it any of your business what laws a local government wants to enact? Do you want to go to this town guns a blazing to liberate all the people from their terrible zoning laws? I'm sure they will be waiting for you with flowers and candy in the streets.

It's a myth that local governments can enact whatever laws they want.

 

[phill4paul]

The whole point of lemon stands is learning the basics of business. I remember in middle school the whole class played simulated lemonade stand, with everyone in the class competing on what resources they will spend on ingredients, signs etc, given the predicted weather. It all got entered into the computer and the results called out, and you simulated the next day. Good times.

This kid is learning the true principals of American Business. If you don't have the government in your pocket, you lose.

Simulated. LOL.

When I grew up in FLA my folks had a corner lot on a fairly busy thoroughfare. Perfect for a young entrepreneur. I started with refreshments. Meh, that was o.k. Then I decided to sell some of the things I didn't want. People stopped and bought some stuff for their kids. Because that is all I had. Kid stuff. My dad had some old junk that he said to put out and see what I could get. That stuff sold. So I grabbed my Schwinn tenspeed and a cart and headed to the dump. In those days you could just go in and pick around. Found some sh*t, fixed some sh*t and ended up making a little off nothing more than another's trash.

I weep for today's youth.

 

[MelissaWV]

Yeah, because its totally "reasonable" to use government violence against people (kids or not) who run lemonade stands on a sidewalk.

Its people like you who are responsible for the mess we are in. And you are far worse than the average person because you post on this site. You have literally no excuse. I am not even 20. And I'm "idealistic" enough not to associate with people like you, people who KNOW BETTER and continue to endorse tyranny.

Actually, I originally saw him say he sided with the homeowner, and took that to mean that he could see why it's a nuisance. There have been similar situations in this neighborhood where kids took over a large area for a game or to sell things, and it can be a huge pain in the ass. There are adults guilty of the same thing (think "communal yard sale"). The only decent solution is to work with those who might be inconvenienced and come up with the best way possible to deal with everyone's needs (when I was little I knew the neighbor that worked nights was on one side of the house from us, so I tried to play on the other, for instance). In this case they did that and there was just one guy with a huge problem with it. I don't think anything would make that kind of person happy.

 

[Danke]

It might annoy me too if it were happening every single day all day long right out front of my house.

3 to 7 p.m

 

[Anti Federalist]

to temper the idealistic noise of the twenty-somethings with the reasonable-ness that comes with age.

LOL.

I'm one of the most unreasonable and hot headed people here.

And I'm a middle aged white man.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Why are middle-aged and older people always so selfish? You'd think they'd give a little for people who have so much life left in front of them, but they really don't seem to care about anyone other than themselves and their families. Does it have something to do with the baby boomers?

Blame the parents.

With nothing but the best of intentions, they made it a point, after suffering through the depression and the horror of WWII, that their children would never have to suffer through such hardships.

Leaving a whole, huge, generation adrift and spoiled.

Adversity breeds men.

Prosperity breeds monsters.