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

[otherone]

I already think 95+% of people are either stupid or evil, regardless of what generation they are in.

This is sig worthy. kudos, my young friend.

 

[Anti Federalist]

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

now my closest is 3/4 mile away..

Happy Birthday Pete!

 

[Jamesiv1]

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?

all you young pups need to quit hatin'

you guys detected the dripping sarcasm in post #30, right?

show respect for your elders WTF don't make me come over there and open up a can of whoop-ass.

 

[Christian Liberty]

LOL.

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

And I'm a middle aged white man.

You're actually one of the most reasonable people here. Getting angry and "hot-headed" doesn't make you unreasonable. Lacking a basic respect for one's neighbors and a basic ability to take logic to fairly basic conclusions makes you unreasonable.

 

[Origanalist]

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

And you can't say the same for other generations? Really, this is pathetic.

 

[2young2vote]

I hope the kid starts a strip club RIGHT THERE next to that guys house.

 

[RonPaulIsGreat]

This lemonade "business" is not valid as it does not support the roads. Actually, all the traffic to and from the stand, is stressing the roads, and therefore it should be shut down. The measurement of society is how many and how well the roads are maintained.

Now, if the "business" got a valid permit, and used accounting software to properly pay taxes in support of the roads, then it might be different.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

One bag Miracle grow. A bunch of pot seeds. Form pellets. Add wrist rocket... Put 911 on speed dial...

Yeah, that should fix the prob...

-t

 

[Origanalist]

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.

You were there for the whole thing, but it's somebody else's fault.

 

[acptulsa]

You were there for the whole thing, but it's somebody else's fault.

I was too. And so were a lot of other GenX and Boomer types, and older people as well, who all refused to stick our heads in our rectums and pay attention to nothing but what we had for lunch.

But, you know, it ain't easy to stop a steamroller.

 

[Origanalist]

I was too. And so were a lot of other GenX and Boomer types, and older people as well, who all refused to stick our heads in our rectums and pay attention to nothing but what we had for lunch.

But, you know, it ain't easy to stop a steamroller.

As was I, so I am as guilty as anybody here. At least I know not to throw stones when I live in a glass house.

 

[DamianTV]

So, uh, why wouldnt a Free Market Solution work here?

If everyone was so offended by someone selling lemonade and wanted that person to stop selling lemonade, they dont buy it!

Howver, if you want to support the community, maybe buy the lemonade, maybe offer the kid $20 to mow your yard instead?

Maybe if the kid could find a job suited for teens that isnt saturated with skilled adults that have been laid off from their line of work, he wouldnt be selling lemonade?

And sure, whats the difference between Lemonade, Cigarettes, or Girl Scout Cookies? If you have to get a License to do anything, then you need Permission. To become truly Communist, all Rights must be converted into Permissions. And thats exactly what is happening. In order to get a job, you need Permission. In order to sell Lemonade, you need Permission. In order to do fucking anything in this wretched hellhole we call a Free Country and the odacity to complain about the consequences of too much freedom (there should be a Law against that), you need Permission. Gun? License. Permission. Jouranlist? License. Permission. Drive? License. Permission. It seems the only thing we are given permission to do without a license is to throw shitloads of money at people who dont deserve it, while being imprisoned or shot for giving money who do deserve it.

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As was I, so I am as guilty as anybody here. At least I know not to throw stones when I live in a glass house.

Dont forget that confusious say man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. ... and man who stand on toilet high on pot, fish in other mans well bound to catch crabs, walk thru airport turnstyle sideways is going to bangcock etc etc etc...

 

[Origanalist]

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Dont forget that confusious say man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement. ... and man who stand on toilet high on pot, fish in other mans well bound to catch crabs, walk thru airport turnstyle sideways is going to bangcock etc etc etc...

Ya, that too.....

 

[Christian Liberty]

This lemonade "business" is not valid as it does not support the roads. Actually, all the traffic to and from the stand, is stressing the roads, and therefore it should be shut down. The measurement of society is how many and how well the roads are maintained.

Now, if the "business" got a valid permit, and used accounting software to properly pay taxes in support of the roads, then it might be different.

Can I assume sarcasm?

 

[PaulConventionWV]

all you young pups need to quit hatin'

you guys detected the dripping sarcasm in post #30, right?

show respect for your elders WTF don't make me come over there and open up a can of whoop-ass.

I usually respond to "whippersnapper."

 

[PaulConventionWV]

And you can't say the same for other generations? Really, this is pathetic.

Other generations aren't old yet, so no, I can't.

 

[echo1]

Little old ladies have been the terror of younger generations since man first walked the earth.

I can't tell you how many baseballs, footballs and basketballs I lost to the little old lady on the corner when I was a kid.

As to the OP...it would be nice if the "complainer" was a concerned with his/her property rights and they were with property values (which are a myth)

 

[bunklocoempire]

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.

Why have a relationship with people you're likely to see everyday when the state offers you an un-natural opportunity to puss out?

Neighborhood? Neighborhoods existed before law so... but these "social contract" neighborhoods -that's another story.

Know your neighbors. Excellent advice that is again discouraged by the state's way of doing things.