Sister's Lemonade Stand Shut Down For Failure To Have Health Permit

For not having a health permit

Sister’s Lemonade Stand Shut Down For Failure To Have Health Permit

Seriously????

CBS 19 reports:

Wanting to make a little money to take their father somewhere special for Father’s Day, Zoey and Andria Green, set up a lemonade stand Monday, but their efforts soon were thwarted by government red tape.

The 7- and 8-year-old sisters talked with the Tyler Morning Telegraph Monday in front of their home on Garden Club, where they were visited by police Chief Clyde Carter, who shut down their stand, because it lacked permitting required by the city of Overton.

The sister’s mother, Sandi Green Evans, said she was a little miffed about the ordeal and the government in the city of 2,539 residents.

“Their father works in the oil field and is gone a lot, so this is something they wanted to do for him. Something special. They both wanted to do this on their own, and they are both little entrepreneurs,” she said.

Neighbors Charlie Perkins and Nelwin Perry said the Neighbors Charlie Perkins and Nelwin Perry said they were outraged about the situation.

Perkins said he went to the city offices to buy a $150 peddler’s permit, but learned the girls also needed a health department permit.

Chief Carter and Overton City Secretary Rachel Gafford declined to talk with the newspaper on camera, but said laws were laws.

SMH…these cops need lives.