City Tickets 10-Year-Old For Having a Lemonade Stand

I see three black cops and a little girl with her dad who lived across the street selling lemonaide and cookies. Why can't the behavior of the cops be called racist? If it were the other way around, you bet it would be. Al Sharpton would be demanding a cup of lemonaide at the White House, and he would get it.

BTW, the ticket was only $50.00, and then dismissed.

Still, the race thing is something to think about. I'm sick of reverse racism and people ignoring it because it's against white folks.

Those who complain about race that have privilege in society should not be throwing stones.

How about fining all the dumb ass motorist, and bikers, (I am both) who break the laws daily - i.e - riding down the street the wrong way - ignoring street lights and signs, etc. Like the ones that rode over two ten year olds on my block! Ticketing them seems dumb and mean. Someone has a chip on their shoulder. I doubt the world would start selling lemonade in the park because two children were doing this.. dumb..

Sounds like the folks in the Green is RACIST and need to removed from there job.. giving a fine to a 10 year-old you gotta be kidding me...

Interesting story. Incredibly bad taste picture.

I find this...

Hilarious.

maybe ticketing wasn't the smartest of ideas but the officer was following the rules. you set a precedent for one thing and that precedent will lead to others.

so now if a grown adult sells lemonade illegally, he can always refer back to this story.

if the officer just warned them not to do it again and told them to pack up and leave, all would of been ok in the island of manahatta.

besides using the excuse "it was a hot day ... i thought people could use a cold drink" is dumb b/c you're charging them money. if you really thought people needed a cold drink, you would of given it away for free.

fifty cent a cup? what a joke.

send the bitches to rikers!!

Wow. The picture that accompanies this story is wildly inappropriate. And it's not even clever. Is that what Gothamist is shooting for these days? Stupid AND insulting? If so, good job.

Honestly the 2G1C video never entered my mind when I first saw that picture, and It probably wouldn't have clicked if you and some other overly anal readers didn't bring it to our attention.

And now some readers who have no idea what the phrase means will look it up online and their Monday will forever be ruined.

And to be fair, there are two girls sharing one cup (ok and one pitcher). Gothamist is simply stating the facts.

You're hopelessly naive. Everyone else got the "joke." If the allusion was unintentional, I challenge the Gothamist to say so, right here and right now. Otherwise, the photo should be removed.

Why should the photo be removed, exactly? It's a funny little ha-ha-the-internet-is-a-crazy-place picture, harming no one, signifying nothing in particular. You might want to consider a thicker skin.

Yeah, dirty jokes featuring little girls are hilarious. You're so right.

Excuse me for not always having my mind in the gutter. I'll need to update my internet meme/pop culture reference's.

The problem is that most park department employees know only one mode of operation: ATTACK!!!

THAT PHOTO IS PERFECT!

Esp. being you don't see the text (in the header) till after you click through to the main story -- brilliant! Hat, tipped.

OTOH, the story itself is somewhat depressing/annoying.

Wow the photo really is in bad taste. Did you know what that was referencing before you posted it?

Of course they did. They chose it because it is evil and funny. Can You Not Handle It?

It's the camel's nose under the tent flap thing. Kid & Dad were likely asked to stop, didn't, got tagged. My kids have asked about the same thing, told them the regs & drawbacks. If this case gets by, I'll be getting a water dog wagon, setting up outside the Metropolitan, and sit back in a chaise while my kids run the wagon, fee-free. You want a 5 dollar pretzel, a salmonella knockwurst? Talk to the kids under the umbrella, I just hold the cash. I feel for the kid in this story, but Dad should have known better. Did she have a food handler's course certificate posted? Was she paying sales tax? I can see setting up in your front yard, but a City Park? Good lesson in civics, business, government for Kid & Dad. And if stuff like this isn't (even with a warning) enforced, Central Park will look like the walk to Kukulcan in Chichen Itza. Kids vending, parents supervising, next thing ya know it's Three Card Monty run by 8 year-olds.

You folks are joking, but just wait until people realize that they really CAN set their children out to sell stuff and not have them be fined. Or are you going to tell me that only cute kids who don't actually need the money are allowed to vend without permits?

You are the only one making any sense in the comments section. Maybe the dad wanted to make a few bucks, so he had his kid do all the work. What about child labor laws?? Dad should definitely be fined.

In your own front yard..sure, go ahead and sell all the lemonade you want. In a city park...just pay the fine and STFU.

I bet the permit wouldn't have been an issue if some free lemonade and cookies were dished out to the cops.

The cops weren't totally wrong, although I think a warning would have been appropriate.

As long as the girl lists accurate calorie counts in the same font size as the price, I don't see what the problem is.

Gothamist: can you please use a different pic for this story? Those are little girls and the disgusting reference to "2 girls 1 cup" is not cool.

Grow up and join a knitting circle if you want everything so PC. It's like rain on your wedding day but funny.

Sorry, not liking little kids representing scat vids is not being "PC"...those are little girls, perv.

Oh yeah I'm thinking of having sex with them just because a sign has the same words as the title of a porn

Grow up you little bitch

I guess you really WERE thinking that. lol. BTW, you sound like that weirdo Sodini gym gunman guy. He liked to call women "bitches" too. Don't join any gyms. Thanks.

Oh, now I'm a serial killer! Oh you got me right in the heart- if I had one, bitch.

Grow a pair of balls or a sense of humor.

lol. Wait, what? You don't like the Sodini joke? Stop being so PC, go join a knitting circle or something instead of hyperventilating about "bitches" and joining gyms. It's getting creepy.

Oh, the Internet!

But did you see the mugs on the girls in the pic? Even Sodini had standards.

I think a warning and request to close up shop and not return would have been sufficient. What a prick.

You will go to hell for that picture.

Pretty stupid to give a $200 ticket to a kid and her father selling some lemonade for only $.50 a cup....Then again, unless I was in a bar or restaraunt, I wouldn't buy a cold drink from a complete stranger on the street... Unless it came in a factory sealed can or bottle

The city sells the right to distribute food and beverage to asshole vendors, so guess what? I bet one of them dimed her. In my book that officer committed child abuse.

The situation obviously warrants a warning not a 200 dollar ticket. And it only needs one officer, not a pack. It's a ten year old with a lemonade stand fer chrissakes. Granted its not in a park and can't stay, but it's about as far down the chain as a crime gets.

Oops- wish I could delete that 'not' from my third sentence.

Unless something is missing from this story, I don't agree that the officers used poor judgement. The kid wouldn't be expected to know any better, but her father should be aware that he needs a permit to set up a food stand in the park. Why should he be exempt from the law just because he had a kid with him?

Those cops make me want to die.

I hate this.

More fucking bullshit brought to you by people who don't understand grey areas.

Doesn't this little girl realize that drink distribution on hot days is only for licensed individuals and corporations? Bloomberg and his grubby grasping minions need their cut otherwise no fucking way!

Besides, fifty cents a cup? What is this girl, a communist? Lemonade in similar cups should at least fetch eight dollars (or thirty if you're at Citi Field or Yankee Stadium).

Thank You NY Post for showing us the pics these PEP officers. so much for Goodwill, way to go Officer Friendlies.

PEPS, are they going to be downsized in this economy? We are paying their salaries while their sole purpose is to write tickets on spurious charges so Bloomberg can count it as "revenue" in his budget.

The PEPs have been trained to exactly what the Parks Department wants them to do - harass park goers and make their ticket quota.

unnecessary stupidity.