NAPLES, FL June 18, 2003 - A six-year-old girl was heartbroken when her small lemonade stand was put out of business because she didn’t have a temporary business permit. A neighbor called the police and her stand was shut down.
...
"I was kind of shocked because I didn't know we needed a permit for 6 year old girls to sell lemonade,” said K.C. Shaw, Abagail’s mom.
According to the city, they have to act on a formal complaint.
"Normally we don't get involved in it but once we do get a formal request we must take action,” said Al Hogrefe of the city of Naples.
Man, what kind of neighbor would do a thing like that? I hope s/he get's egged.
The article goes on to say the city gave the girl a permit for free.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
...uh...the thread title should say "No Permit". Can a mod fix it?
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
What purpose does it serve to call the police on a six year old girl's lemonade stand? I mean for Chrissakes, there's no motivation besides sheer assholery there.
Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves…We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.--Ada Louise Huxtable, "Farewell to Penn Station", New York Times editorial, 30 October 1963 X-Ray Blues
Without getting into the issue of whether full-scale adult-run businesses should have to get permits from the State to operate, why the fuck does a minor need permission to run a goddamn lemonade stand?
The article implies the Police don't do anything about it unless there's a formal complaint.
I'd have loved to hear that 911 call.
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
That neighbor is nothing more than a cold hearted buttfaucet
"Right now we can tell you a report was filed by the family of a 12 year old boy yesterday afternoon alleging Mr. Michael Jackson of criminal activity. A search warrant has been filed and that search is currently taking place. Mr. Jackson has not been charged with any crime. We cannot specifically address the content of the police report as it is confidential information at the present time, however, we can confirm that Mr. Jackson forced the boy to listen to the Howard Stern show and watch the movie Private Parts over and over again."
Lonestar wrote:The article implies the Police don't do anything about it unless there's a formal complaint.
I'd have loved to hear that 911 call.
Read again. The article implies they don't close down lemonade stands unless there's a complaint.
Hate police much?
Well I...wait, what? Are you on crack?
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
My God! I have a neighbor that would do something like that. She is the kind of woman that has no family or friends and is pissed off at the world. I bet the neighbor is the same type of person. I bet he/she saw that the kid was trying to earn something got mad and called the cops. I hope that asswipe goes blind
theheap wrote:My God! I have a neighbor that would do something like that. She is the kind of woman that has no family or friends and is pissed off at the world. I bet the neighbor is the same type of person. I bet he/she saw that the kid was trying to earn something got mad and called the cops. I hope that asswipe goes blind
I have a neighbor like that. He has a small penis(My mom is a perv, we have the only two story on the block and she uses it...that and binocs) So he compensates by being an ass.
He called the cops on us for playing music in the yard...at 3 pm....
GALE Force Biological Agent/
BOTM/Great Dolphin Conspiracy/ Entomology and Evolutionary Biology Subdirector:SD.net Dept. of Biological Sciences
There is Grandeur in the View of Life; it fills me with a Deep Wonder, and Intense Cynicism.
theheap wrote:My God! I have a neighbor that would do something like that. She is the kind of woman that has no family or friends and is pissed off at the world. I bet the neighbor is the same type of person. I bet he/she saw that the kid was trying to earn something got mad and called the cops. I hope that asswipe goes blind
I have a neighbor like that. He has a small penis(My mom is a perv, we have the only two story on the block and she uses it...that and binocs) So he compensates by being an ass.
He called the cops on us for playing music in the yard...at 3 pm....
I think everyone has a dick neighbor. Its like manditory that every neighborhood has to have a dick neighbor. I think it's a government policy
theheap wrote:I think everyone has a dick neighbor. Its like manditory that every neighborhood has to have a dick neighbor. I think it's a government policy
Haha, not everyone. ~Jason
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
theheap wrote:I think everyone has a dick neighbor. Its like manditory that every neighborhood has to have a dick neighbor. I think it's a government policy
Haha, not everyone. ~Jason
You're not the only one
Seriously, who is the eunuch here, the neighbor, or the police officer who ordered the stand to be shut down?
Lonestar wrote:
Man, what kind of neighbor would do a thing like that? I hope s/he get's egged.
The article goes on to say the city gave the girl a permit for free.
When I cut lawns in South Florida, one of my customers threatened to turn me in if I raised prices, for I was cutting grass without a business license...
John 3:16-18 Warwolves G2
The University of North AlabamaLions!
Kintaro wrote:Seriously, who is the eunuch here, the neighbor, or the police officer who ordered the stand to be shut down?
Think the "useless individual in need of a falling anvil" award goes to the neighbor -- the cop was just doing his job, as cruddy as that turned out to be on that particular day...
John 3:16-18 Warwolves G2
The University of North AlabamaLions!
Fortunately when I grew up, all my lemonade stands had Mafia backing. Or at least the old man who we were almost certain was a crime boss would always buy something from my stand.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
If we're trading stories about bad neighbors, we had a cranky old lady next door when I was growing up.
She'd constantly call saying we parked too close to her house, and if you made a 3-point turn using her driveway (the ramp between the sidewalk and street, not even her actual driveway) she would call and complain about that.
One year, a big storm knocked down the fence between our backyards. She figured that since when it fell it fell into our yard, it was our responsibility to pay for it. My father, the attorney, eventually got her to change her mind.
But Mom was angry for a while. She made me practice my trombone in my brother's room, which had a window facing her house, and opened the window so she could hear.
Stuart: The only problem is, I'm losing track of which universe I'm in.
You kinda look like Jesus. With a lightsaber.- Peregrin Toker
The house across the street from mine is almost certainly a drug house. It is owned by a little old lady but occupied each day by some new group of high school kids. They blare techno at ungodly hours and every damn night some car swerves into the driveway full of drunken idiots.
Kill them. Kill them all.
The End of Suburbia
"If more cars are inevitable, must there not be roads for them to run on?"
-Robert Moses
"The Wire" is the best show in the history of television. Watch it today.
Have you considered Telling the Bloods it's a Crips hideout?
"The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."
,and this whole permit thing "WTF" since when does a kid need a permit. 
~Jason
