I don't know whether to laugh or be pissed as hell, so I laughed first, until I realized they were all true stories.
The local government in San Jose, Calif., grew green with envy when cheerleaders from Lincoln High School scheduled a car wash to raise the money to take their yells and acrobatics to a national competition. Killjoys from the San Jose Environmental Services Department were dispatched to shut them down. Their dreams crushed, the cheerleaders had to send out emails to say that City Hall had declared their car wash in violation of water-discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes.
Lemonade stands blossom like honeysuckle every summer, and the kids can feel solidarity with the cheerleaders. Theyre often targets of regulators with a taste for child abuse. In Bethesda, parents were fined $500 when their children were discovered operating an unlicensed lemonade stand. Half the proceeds were marked for pediatric cancer research. Town officials in Coralville, Iowa, dispatched cops to close down the lemonade stand of 4-year-old Abigail Krutsinger because she failed to obtain a $400 city permit.
Marty the Magician, who tickled kids in Springfield, Mo., was told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to produce a copy of his disaster plan outlining how he proposed to rescue his magic rabbit in event of fire, flood or tornado.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/editorial-cracking-down-on-the-kids/
The local government in San Jose, Calif., grew green with envy when cheerleaders from Lincoln High School scheduled a car wash to raise the money to take their yells and acrobatics to a national competition. Killjoys from the San Jose Environmental Services Department were dispatched to shut them down. Their dreams crushed, the cheerleaders had to send out emails to say that City Hall had declared their car wash in violation of water-discharge laws, therefore we had to cancel this and all future car washes.
Lemonade stands blossom like honeysuckle every summer, and the kids can feel solidarity with the cheerleaders. Theyre often targets of regulators with a taste for child abuse. In Bethesda, parents were fined $500 when their children were discovered operating an unlicensed lemonade stand. Half the proceeds were marked for pediatric cancer research. Town officials in Coralville, Iowa, dispatched cops to close down the lemonade stand of 4-year-old Abigail Krutsinger because she failed to obtain a $400 city permit.
Marty the Magician, who tickled kids in Springfield, Mo., was told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to produce a copy of his disaster plan outlining how he proposed to rescue his magic rabbit in event of fire, flood or tornado.http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/29/editorial-cracking-down-on-the-kids/