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[Matlock]

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0803Lemonade03.html

SALEM, Mass.- A sausage vendor has given two Massachusetts boys a lesson in cutthroat business techniques.

Police shut down the boys' lemonade stand in Salem after the sausage man complained that they didn't have a permit and were taking customers away from him.

Lieutenant Scott Englehart says police had no choice but to enforce the rules. But he says it's "ridiculous that little kids can't sell lemonade."

Jarrod Clowery is the sausage man. He says he regrets ever calling police because now all he gets are icy stares from people around town who heard about the story.

Nine-year-old Dominic Serino says after he and eleven-year-old Ryan Decker were thrown off the Common, they relocated to a spot near Serino's home. But their business dropped off.

God, everyone hates kids now. I hope he goes through the same hell that woman who bitched about fresh-baked cookies on her stoop went through.

 

[Tamanon]

Is it really cutthroat if they were breaking the regulations to be there?

Sure it was a dickish thing to do , but the guy just wanted them moved away from his lemonade area.

 

[Baron Aloha]

Someone should get these kids a permit and have them set up shop right in front of this guy's store.

 

[Incognito]

How bout serving some better fucking sausage to compete with the kids?

 

[GaimeGuy]

Of course he gets icy stares. All these kids were doing was selling a little lemonade. I highly doubt it was SEVERELY cutting into this guy's profits, especially since he sells sausage.

Who goes to a sausage place and gets lemonade? "I'd like three pounds of beef and some lemonade to go with that!"

 

[yoshifumi]

maybe he fails to realize that on a hot summer day people want a nice cool lemonade, not a hot greasy sausage.

 

[Phoenix]

Lieutenant Scott Englehart says police had no choice but to enforce the rules. But he says it's "ridiculous that little kids can't sell lemonade."

Don't worry Lt. Englehart, MAF will be here shortly to say that you should have been chasing rapist or getting airdropped into Iraq to help fight terrorists shortly.

 

[Matlock]

Don't worry Lt. Englehart, MAF will be here shortly to say that you should have been chasing rapist or getting airdropped into Iraq to help fight terrorists shortly.

He should have been doing something other than harassing little kids.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

He was bound by the law as you can see by his quote he was just doing his job, the fact that the vendor is refered to as the "sausage man" makes this all the more hillarious.

 

[UltraMarioMan]

I think we should start a fund to get these kids a permit!

 

[DarienA]

Why weren't these kids thrown down, handcuffed and arrested? They were obviously a threat to this sausage man's well being.... therefore a threat to his well-being was a threat to his life... therefore these kids were threatening this man! Apparently Salem, Mass cops aren't as well-schooled in this kind of thing as Fresno cops.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

I think you guys are being a little too light on these children's business venture ... or should I say "Lemon, INC" a Fortune 500 company:

 

[Orin GA]

Heh. The whole story wasnt told. The same vendor let the kids sell their lemonade at his stand using his license.

 

[miyuru]

Heh. The whole story wasnt told. The same vendor let the kids sell their lemonade at his stand using his license.

Before or after calling the cops?

 

[Orin GA]

after

 

[Ninja Scooter]

im all for this guy. Fuck little kids.

 

[raYne]

How bout serving some better fucking sausage to compete with the kids?

"Man it's hot as hell outside... I could really go for some better fucking sausage. Mmmmm refreshing..."

 

[The Faceless Master]

Heh. The whole story wasnt told. The same vendor let the kids sell their lemonade at his stand using his license.

well, probably because he lost EVEN MORE MONEY because all his potential customers thought he was a dick for calling the cops on kids selling lemonade...

 

[AB 101]

Maybe this sausage dickhead could learn something from these kids if he was losing business.

 

[WordAssassin]

I think we should start a fund to get these kids a permit!

Brilliant! Let's all sell lemonade to raise the money!

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