Thursday, June 14, 2018

HEROIC: Country Time Will Cover Illegal Lemonade Stand Fines and Fees This Summer



The makers of Country Time Lemonade are running a unique promotion this summer. If you’re the parent of a child 14 or younger who has incurred a fine for running an unlicensed lemonade stand or who has paid for a permit, Country Time will “cover your fine or permit fees up to $300," reports Kottke.

Oh, this is great, a company fighting for free enterprise for kids!

Watch this great video.



-RW  

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8 comments:

  1. Well, Johnnie, what have we learned about civil disobedience?
    Love it!

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    1. Indeed!

      Charles Murray wrote a book about this type of thing, "By the People," where I think one of his suggestions was that the private sector should form legal-aid funds to encourage civil disobedience (by paying the legal defense costs and fines). The idea is to make government an insurable hazard.

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  2. I wonder if a cop feels any shame when busting a kid for having an "illegal" lemonade stand?

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    1. Do they feel shame for anything else they do? Yeah, I doubt it too...

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    2. My 12 yr-old kid got busted by a cop, 200 feet from our driveway, for riding a mini-bike in our residential, suburban neighborhood---2 weeks after receiving it as a birthday gift. Not speeding (it goes about 20 mph tops), not riding on the sidewalk (although we offered to do that from now on, if that's acceptable). Just for being a kid riding a device that goes no faster than the other bicyclists around here (to say nothing of a couple of residents who zoom by on real motorcycles).
      The cop seemed bashful and embarrassed, as if he was sorry he followed-up on the complaint from a neighbor (yes, some busy-body ass-hole snitched, supposedly). But he still summarily and unilaterally banned us from ever riding it, until my kid is "of age" when he turns 16. So now the mini-bike sits in the garage.

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  3. Next time I drink lemonade I'll have to look for Country Time.

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  4. This is a master stroke and the kind of common sense I lament in corporate Murica. Bravo.

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  5. How about Country Time teaming up with Institute for Justice to eliminate these frigging laws wherever they can?

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