Kid’s Lemonade Stand Fined $500

Posted by By Bryan at 8 July, at 00 : 43 AM Print

In Bethesda, Maryland and in every neighborhood across the United States, kids spend their summers selling homemade lemonade. They use this money for toys and some even donate the money they make to their favorite charity.

That is until the county feels like to kids might be making too much money. At least is what officials in Bethesda are telling a local kids’ lemonade stand.

According to the local officials, the kids operating a lemonade stand near this week’s U.S. Open at Congressional Golf Club need an actual vendor’s license in order to run this type of stand. They say it is not about what they are doing, but that it could tie up traffic and endanger the safety of the kids or people traveling near it.

Officials say they warned the kids at the lemonade stand that they could not operate it. They said it is not just a small stand, as they have coolers and coolers full of lemonade that they are selling.

But these kids are not even doing this for a profit. The kids said that all the money they are making is going to help pediatric cancer.

Technically, the county has said that any small lemonade stand is illegal and needs to be registered, but they usually look the other way. But not this week, where times are busier then ever, as golf’s second major event of the year is in town.

The parents were fined $500 after the kids did not take the stand down after they were warned.

Meanwhile, all over town, the city has awarded permits to tons of homes in the area to let them charge for parking on their lawns. For just $300, a person can buy a permit and charge for parking all week long during the event.

It may not seem like a big deal, but these people are charging up to $60 for a day of parking in their lawns. Some people are making tens of thousands of dollars at this event just for having people park on their lawns.

One person complained to a cop as he was about to pay $50 for parking at a house. The cop told him he knows of at least one person who was able to pay his one child’s entire tuition just from charging for parking at huge events that are held at Congressional.

Lesson to the kids. Follow the rules, get a permit and profit!

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