Cops Bust Entrepreneurial Kids
photo credit: Adam Finley
It happens every summer. Someone calls the police and reports that juveniles are selling their product on the street corner. What’s the “dangerous” product? Lemonade, of course.
The call came in at 7:06 p.m. Juveniles, seven of them, on a quiet residential street, selling an uncontrolled substance: lemonade.
A neighbor had dimed them out, and a Haverford Township police officer responded in a hurry.
When he arrived at the two-story brick house on Maryland Avenue, he dutifully informed Dana Kleinschmidt, mother of four of the reputed offenders, who included 5-year-old triplets, that they were violating the law. They were selling lemonade without a permit.
Kleinschmidt was nonplussed. She told the children to cease and desist, but the law was news to her – and evidently to the rest of the township’s police department.
Angela Shupe on July 21st, 2009 6:02 am
Girl Scouts sell their cookies door to door. Kids go around with their fundraisers asking neighbors if they’d like to buy something. If that is no problem, I don’t see why kids with a lemonade stand would be. I’m willing to bet that the person who called the cops is suddenly very unpopular in that neighborhood.
Jaclyn Wells on July 21st, 2009 10:27 am
That is just so ridiculous. kids have been selling lemonade on the street corner for centuries and all of a sudden it’s a problem to people now. I wonder why…is it because the kids are not sharing their profit’s with them? I mean come on, it’s kids selling lemonade not guns and drugs! And like Angela said above, why is it okay for girl scouts to sell cookies and fundraiser items hounding you at YOUR front door, but kids can’t sit on a corner with some lemonade and wait for you to approach them wanting some?
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