Casper Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/07/sf_cops_lemonade_stand.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyler524 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Apparently someone wast loved enough as a kid or maybe he made a shit lemonade stand that never sold..... either way the guys a prick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flounder Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Fact of the matter is he cant force the ice cream vendors to leave without following the same rules for the kids. Laws are laws and must be followed no matter what age. I agree with what he did. "How can you tell the ice cream carts to leave and then let some people sell other things?" asks Dangerfield. "Just because they're kids they shouldn't get a free pass, you know?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonkerS Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 If they were set up and selling at that mentioned event, I would be inclined to agree, but I see no harm in a kid setting up a little stand at their home on the front lawn. Sign of the times... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 at least they didnt use their taser on the children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd#43 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Fact of the matter is he cant force the ice cream vendors to leave without following the same rules for the kids. Laws are laws and must be followed no matter what age. I agree with what he did. "How can you tell the ice cream carts to leave and then let some people sell other things?" asks Dangerfield. "Just because they're kids they shouldn't get a free pass, you know?"Come on, Flounder.You cant hang out here and believe things are black and white.All the cool kids know that life is shades of gray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd#43 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Sign of the times...Kids with a Lemonade stand is a "sign of the times"?WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorro Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 I hate all cops...except for the one i know...and i barely like him If this stand wasnt making money...I'm sure it would be still operating. Since the mafia....errrr....i mean government cant tax it, then it's going down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood3586 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Kids with a Lemonade stand is a "sign of the times"?WTF?the fact that the kids aren't allowed to have a lemonade stand without a permit is a sign of the time.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 (edited) So now we get pissed when the rules are applied consistently? Mods and friends get away with bullshit, but I don't. Mexicans can't sell food, but kids can!Retarded, and not even news worthy Edited July 27, 2010 by wrillo Excuse my typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casper Posted July 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 So now we get pissed when the rules aren't applied consistently? Mods and friends get away with bullshit, but I don't. Mexicans can't sell food, but kids can!Retarded, and not even news worthyAnd the lightbulb goes on.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood3586 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 do any of you remember being a kid?? its not like they are selling this shit for like 10 bucks a glass.. whats the harm in it really?? if they are in there front yard and not running the neighborhood whats wrong with that?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 (edited) They were all at/around the San Francisco Symphony event at Dolores Park. The cop sounds like he knows its silly, and didn't want to do it, but he couldn't run the mexicans off and turn a blind eye to the kids. He was doing his job, and you guys are getting upset about it?edit: This could have easily been "Illegal Mexican ice cream vendor wins multi-million dollar lawsuit against San Francisco Police Department for Discrimination". Now THAT would be something to get pissed about. Edited July 27, 2010 by wrillo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywood3586 Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 no one is upset its just the principle of it that the cop had to go there and run the kids off also.. its just sad to hear stuff like this.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrillo Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 He didn't go there to run off kids. He was more likely on patrol, shutdown the ice cream vendors, then notice the kids selling food across the damn street. Its not sad. Its fair, and its LIFE. Consider it a good lesson on life for the kids, no one is special or above the law.Another good headline would have been about people getting sick because someones' lazy mommy didn't wash the brownie pan well enough, or mexicans were using bacteria infected dairy products to make their ice cream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BonkerS Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 the fact that the kids aren't allowed to have a lemonade stand without a permit is a sign of the time..Yes, thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Butters Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Fact of the matter is he cant force the ice cream vendors to leave without following the same rules for the kids. Laws are laws and must be followed no matter what age. I agree with what he did. "How can you tell the ice cream carts to leave and then let some people sell other things?" asks Dangerfield. "Just because they're kids they shouldn't get a free pass, you know?"If they were set up and selling at that mentioned event, I would be inclined to agree, but I see no harm in a kid setting up a little stand at their home on the front lawn. Sign of the times...So now we get pissed when the rules are applied consistently? Mods and friends get away with bullshit, but I don't. Mexicans can't sell food, but kids can!Retarded, and not even news worthyThey were all at/around the San Francisco Symphony event at Dolores Park. The cop sounds like he knows its silly, and didn't want to do it, but he couldn't run the mexicans off and turn a blind eye to the kids. He was doing his job, and you guys are getting upset about it?edit: This could have easily been "Illegal Mexican ice cream vendor wins multi-million dollar lawsuit against San Francisco Police Department for Discrimination". Now THAT would be something to get pissed about.i agree with all of the above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan_Rider Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Stand was being operated illegally, period, end of story. The only reason people have a problem with this is because it was a kid and when it comes to kids logic goes out the door and people think only with emotion. Had this been a 40 year old selling brownies and lemonade and the cops shut him or her down no one would give a shit. The cop did his job, quit bitching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 He enforced the law consistently. Good for him that he had the balls to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 all of this "enforce the law consistently" stuff is what causes kids to get expelled from school for having a butter knife.well the rules say no knives. they dont make an exception for butter knives. and rules are rules... sorry bout it. people need to use a little more discretion i think.another question: is a kid selling lemonade a business? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 all of this "enforce the law consistently" stuff is what causes kids to get expelled from school for having a butter knife.well the rules say no knives. they dont make an exception for butter knives. and rules are rules... sorry bout it. people need to use a little more discretion i think.another question: is a kid selling lemonade a business?Then there should be an exception to the rule. Butter knives allowed. If parents and teachers would teach the kids common sense, respect and personal responsibility, half this shit would be avoided. But little johnny's mom whined when johnny took a swiss army knife in and got in trouble but little sarah didn't get in trouble for a butter knife. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheech Posted July 27, 2010 Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 all of this "enforce the law consistently" stuff is what causes kids to get expelled from school for having a butter knife.well the rules say no knives. they dont make an exception for butter knives. and rules are rules... sorry bout it. people need to use a little more discretion i think.another question: is a kid selling lemonade a business?false comparison is false. What you are referring to is the "zero tolerance" rules for schools that aren't reviewable by anyone except for the school board normally comprised of a group of shrill harpies who encase their children in no less than 6 inches of bubble wrap at all times. Under these rules (and using your example), irrespective of the circumstances surrounding it, if someone brought a butter knife to school they would be expelled. End of story. Consistent enforcement would be if two people brought butter knives to school they would be asked to remove them from school premises, as the cop asked both food stand people to leave the premises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Butters Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 I feel more sorry for the officer than I do for the kid. She'll get over it' date=' but he has to go back to work for a system that pretends to help people. Policing isn't always gun fights are car chases. Sometimes you have to ruin a little girl's day... or shoot a dog in the head. It's a shit job and I'm glad it's not mine. That said... permits for street vending is retarded.[/quote']i dont mind permits for street vending...better than someone in a ragged cart selling burgers filled with e-coli or something...they gotta keep some kind of control over things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 Its just the gov't keeping the little guy down!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted July 28, 2010 Report Share Posted July 28, 2010 Yeah.. the government does a great job at walking vendor to vendor and inspecting carts. It's all about the money. It has nothing to do with keeping your stomach from launching half-rotten wieners into the atmosphere.are you saying they dont care about me? I haz a sad now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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