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Where's your permit? Children's lemonade stand shut down in Ottawa
It seemed like the perfect way to help those biking along the Rideau Canal in Ottawa cool off on a hot, sunny day, but two little girls were told to pack up their lemonade stand for failing to have a permit. "I felt sad because I like selling lemonade. It was really fun and there were lots of customers," seven-year-old Eliza Andrews told CBC News. Eliza and her five-year-old sister Adela set up a lemonade stand on a grassy median between Echo Drive and Colonel By Drive...
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Following the letter of the law rather than the spirit. Well done government.
Yes, there are rules in place for entrepreneurs, if they want to start a business. But 2 young kids, who want to make a bit of pocket change by selling lemonade, you can't look that through the fingers? Were you ever young or were you born ancient and stupid?
Lesson in business: the government owns you and will come after you, even if you are a little kid selling lemonade.
I keep wondering what would governments have to do to cause massive public outrage and regime change, but it seems that people are willing to take unlimited punishment nowadays. I like a lot of things about our current times, but wish people weren't the most spineless folk since the evolution of vertebrates.