According to Denver 7 ABC News, police in Colorado were called to shut-down a lemonade stand being run by two young boys (ages 6 & 4) over the Memorial Day weekend.
After the police forced the boys to shut-down their lemonade stand, saying the boys didn’t have the necessary permit, the city said that a permit was not required for children to run a lemonade stand.
In response, the Country Time Lemonade company is launching “Legal-Ade,” a team of people who will help lemonade stands deal with permit issues. If a child gets fined for running a lemonade stand, Legal-Ade will reimburse the cost of the fine or permit up to $300.
Of course, Country Time Legal-Ade is more of a marketing ploy than a true legal service, but the fact that children (and their parents) are being forced by police to shut down lemonade stands is just one more example of government overreach.
We saw this same type of police heavy-handedness in Overton, TX in 2015.
And in 2011, Forbes Magazine wrote an article about The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands.
Fortunately, August 20th is now unofficially National Lemonade Freedom Day, because when life gives you overbearing government regulations…make lemonade, or something.
See the National Lemonade Stand crack-down map here.
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