NAPLES, 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.


BACK IN BUSINESS


"Gotta get ready for the sale,” said Abagail.

Even though she’s only 6 years old, Abagail prepares for another day at work.

"We like making money at our lemonade stand. We want it to stay cold so they can have cold lemonade on hot days,” she said.

A young entrepreneur who does the cleaning even the advertising. And it is paying off.

"We are making lots of tips in our tip jar,” said Abagail.

But a few days ago, Abagail and her friends were put out of business by a neighbor.

"We didn't have a permit so she called the cops,” said Abagail.

The police arrived and shut her down.

"We had to take down our lemonade stand,” said Abagail.

Abagail did not have a temporary business permit, which is technically a city violation.

"So we had to do something else to play,” said Abagail.

"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.

So Abagail’s mom went to the city code enforcement office with wallet in hand, prepared to buy a permit.

"$35 every single time for a single use,” said Shaw.

Not wanting to be sour, the city played Mr. Niceguy.

"No we did not charge her, no,” said Hogrefe.

They did finally get the permit.

"Basically a blank check to have as many lemonade stands as we can stand,” said Shaw.

So Abagail is back in business and learned laws can be tough, even for a six year old's lemonade stand.

Shaw said the police officers who shut down the stand felt terrible, but they had to do their job. One of the officers even bought a glass of lemonade from Abagail.

Its really pretty bad when an adult has to turn in a 6 year old child for selling Lemonade w/o a permit. There are some very sick people out there.

Some people just hate kids...

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Naaaa. She's not even that nice. Don't give witches a bad name!

edited to add: ....but, maybe we can cite her for keeping farm animals within city limits --- nobody wants a horse's ass around.

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Ouch...watch the video with the little girl in it...sheeeeesh...how can you call the cops lookin' at that face?

Go to www.nbc-2.com and you will see the story listed under "Local News" on the front page

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The text in the original post mentions Naples as the location. But did you all realize that it is Naples, Florida?! Besides the numerous scam artists who make their home here, we also have millions of retirees who come here with nothing better to do than stick their noses in other people's business.

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My family has been here since 1865. This is my state, dammit!

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ROFLMAO!!!!!

My parents just sold theirs a couple months ago. Tomorrow they're getting in their motorhome and going to Canada for two months. I think that's great - drive around Canada at 20mph in a house followed by a car to pay the Canadians back for coming down here and driving 20mph all winter. Is this thread off topic yet?

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According to Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), in NY, lemonade stands are different:

One summer when i was a kid I had a lemonade stand, but I was terrible at it. A Korean kid setup one next door to me and I couldn't compete with him . . . He was open 24 hours a day, had other kids working it for him, he was selling lotto tickets . . . he was killing me! So, being Italian, I figured that I'd sell him "protection" . . . so I went over and told him what a nice stand he had and what a shame it would be if it got hit by a Big Wheel or something . . .

I read the story and the Police let her open it up again.

I think she should make nice with the neighbor that turned her in and offer them some free lemonaide.

Of course, an obvious substitute for lemonaide would be in order.......

UPDATE

OK now who wants to bet on which company will buy the "little lemonade girl" rights?

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