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NY Park Cops Squeeze Kid's Lemonade Stand for $50 Fine

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(Newser) – Manhattan's Riverside Park cops put the squeeze on a kid selling lemonade with a $50 fine for doing business without a permit yesterday. "It was such a hot day I figured people would want a cold drink," said Clementine Lee, 10, dreaming of liquidity. Thick-skinned police made Clementine and her irritated pop close up shop. But the parks commissioner has decided to ditch the ticket. "We're making lemonade out of lemons," Adrian Benepe told the New York Post.

New York City park cops can be the pits.
New York City park cops can be the pits.   (©Pink Sherbet Photography)
Day goes sour for enterprising Upper West Side girl.
Day goes sour for enterprising Upper West Side girl.   (©paperfacets)
Clementine Lee and her pop were bitter about their treatment by park cops.
Clementine Lee and her pop were bitter about their treatment by park cops.   (©cote)
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Reader60610265
Aug 16, 09 8:07 AM CDT
The butthead cop needs to get his head out of the hole it's in. It's un american to ticket a kid selling lemonade .Like the kid would have made enough to pay for his time and for the ingredients LOL Reply
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SalParadise
Aug 16, 09 8:51 AM CDT
You guys are ON with the puns today. I love it. Reply
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jagerhans
Aug 16, 09 8:59 AM CDT
all policemen should be issued a lemon-fueled thinking cap like the one seen in «The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy» . Reply
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autorob
Aug 16, 09 9:07 AM CDT
If the kid would have only had donuts to go with the lemonade. Reply
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answerer
Aug 16, 09 10:19 AM CDT
It was the duty of the Parks Department to enforce the permit rule. However, the agents could have handled the situation better by saying, "Look, you need a permit to sell stuff here. I'll let you off this time but I'm going to have to ask you to leave." I hope the agents are reassigned to park sanitation. Reply
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