Sometimes you just wouldn’t have believed it if you hadn’t seen it — or in this case read it — with your own eyes. A “code enforcement officer” for the City of Tulare shut down the roadside lemonade stand of an 8 year old girl trying to raise money for a trip to Disneyland. Why? Wait for it now…
She didn’t have a business license.
Later, after a local radio station caught onto the story and ran with it, Vice Mayor Philip Vandergrift sagely pronounced the City might change the law and charge youngsters only “a nominal fee” or they might set about “establishing a license fee waver” for kids. But, the august politician continued by pointing out that the city just has to harass harmless youngsters selling lemonade on street corners (apparently its unsafe to do so without a license, but perfectly okay with one), “otherwise we’ll have people on every corner.”
And just when, might I ask this noble sage, has that ever happened in world history, with or without “code enforcement?”
But there is good news. The publicity caused a public outcry and the Visalia radio station gave the entrepreneurial girl and her family two tickets to Disneyland.
Read the full story of this silly bureaucratic nonsense here at the Fresno Bee.
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