Channel 9 News is reporting on a children's lemonade stand near the U. S. Open which has been shut down by a county inspector:
"A county inspector ordered the Marriott and Augustine kids to shut down the stand they set up on Persimmon Tree Rd., right next to Congressional. And after they allegedly ignored a couple of warnings, the inspector fined their parents $500."
The article points out that because the children did not have a vendors license, they could not see their lemonade.
The article reports:
"Jennifer Hughes, the director of permitting for the county, says it's technically illegal to run even the smallest lemonade stand in the county, but inspectors usually don't go looking for them. She said this one was unusually large. Hughes also says they've warned all kinds of other vendors they couldn't operate near the US Open because of concerns about traffic and safety."
The article also points out that many of the people living near where the U. S. Open is taking place have purchased permits (cost $300) to allow people attending the Open to park on their lawns. One neighbor says that he has made enough money with parking during golf events to pay for one of his children's college tuition.
My questions is simple--if the children had paid the money for the permit, would they be allowed to sell their lemonade? What would be the regulations that would affect their lemonade stand?
Does anyone else believe that it's about the money and that the nanny state has run amok?
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