zonaSker Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Girl's lemonade stand shut down CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Police closed down a lemonade stand in Coralville last week, telling its 4-year-old operator and her dad that she didn't have a permit. An officer told Abigail Krutsinger's father Friday that she couldn't run the stand as RAGBRAI bicyclers poured into Coralville. A city ordinance says food vendors must apply for a permit and get a health inspection. Abigail's dad, Dustin Krutsinger, said the ordinance and its enforcers are going too far if they force a 4-year-old to abandon her lemonade stand. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Being a diligent officer of the law, he just wanted them to "Respect my authoritah!" Quote Link to comment
holvy83 Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 meh, look at it both ways though, the father of the little girl would be none to happy if a rider got sick from the lemonade and sued him. There are 10's of thousands of riders on Ragbrai and not all are good people. It only takes one incident for things to get ugly that is why they make all towns have their vendors get permits to cover their own behind. A couple of years ago a rider was in an accident and died, the family sued the county since the route was on a county road and won, so the county decided that RAGBRAI was not allowed to run through their county. Quote Link to comment
Minnesota_husker Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 It isn't common sense if this little girl is making bank and her dad is doing all the work. It is a law and they have every right to shut her down. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 String her up. It'll teach her a lesson. LINK Quote Link to comment
TXHSKR Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 LINK Sounds to me like they want to stop any liability issues with vendors during the bike race. They only require a vendor permit for the two days of the bike race. Quote Link to comment
Lyons in the Sea of Red. Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Jeez she might as well apply for a liquor license. Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 You know what they say, "When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade." Unless you don't have any water or sugar. And then you just eat the lemons and the rind will give you diarrhea. Quote Link to comment
CornHOLIO Posted August 3, 2011 Share Posted August 3, 2011 Bet the cops wouldn't have shut her down if she'd included donuts on her menu. Quote Link to comment
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