Evil capitalist put out of business

HolyWarrior · June 22, 2003, 22:05

How can people sleep at night with felons like this on the loose? They shoulda locked this dangerous criminal up and thrown the key away.

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Girl's lemonade stand back in business

06/21/2003
By DIANNA SMITH,

Forget about the Gulf of Mexico. Who cares about the breathtaking sunsets. Never mind the romantic lure of the Naples Pier. Something sour has put Naples on the map.

Media from all over the United States have swarmed to now-famous Avigayil Wardein, a brown-haired, 6-year-old who just lost two front baby teeth. Naples police busted Avigayil on June 13 for selling lemonade without a city permit. The
story filtered through the news wires and quickly became a topic on CNN, MSNBC and Fox news networks, as well as the "Today" show and "Inside Edition."

Avigayil Wardein, 6, answers (see picture at link given below) questions during an interview with staff from a national late night talk show on Friday afternoon at her home in Naples.

Wardein runs a lemonade stand with her friends, Alysa Donnella, 6, and Austin Dremann-Pease, 9, and her brother, Lucas, 8, but was forced to stop selling lemonade and cookies at the end of her driveway last week after a neighbor complained.

Rush Limbaugh is talking about it. More than 60 radio stations from across the country have called Avigayil's mom, KC Shaw. On Friday, she talked with producers from the "Late Show" with David Letterman and "The Tonight Show," hosted by Jay Leno.

It was only nine days ago that Avigayil was known to passers-by as the cute girl who sells plastic cups of lemonade for 50 cents in front of her Old Naples house. Today, she's known as the Naples lemonade gal who has the whole country rooting for her and her ambitious little lemonade stand.

It turns out not many folks knew someone needs a city permit to operate a lemonade stand. Even Naples Mayor Bonnie MacKenzie bought lemonade from the small setup before Avigayil was forced to close it. "I've been a customer of hers more than once," MacKenzie said. "That means I've aided and abetted. You know what, I'm not one bit sorry. It's good lemonade."

On June 13, Naples police responded to a complaint from an anonymous neighbor who grumbled about the permit-less lemonade stand on the corner of Sixth Street and 11th Avenue South. Although the Naples police officer who answered the call was only doing his job, he felt so bad he bought a cup of lemonade.

City officials shook their heads in shame. So they waived the permit fee, which was $35. After a temporary shutdown, the city allowed the business entrepreneur to reopen. Avigayil will lug the white plastic table and two gallons of fresh lemonade to the edge of the driveway today at 613 11th Avenue S., where her table is usually crowded with construction workers, landscapers and beachgoers with dry throats and sweaty clothes.

Phone calls from media, strangers and old friends have flooded the Shaw house, which the family might leave sometime soon to appear on national late night talk shows in Los Angeles and New York.

While sipping on a glass of cold lemonade, Shaw said Friday that she has had phone calls from people offering to pay for the permit and wanting to donate money to Avigayil. She's had so many offers, in fact, that she has set up an account called the Lemonade Girl College Fund at Orion Bank at 3838 U.S. 41 N.

Many of the other calls have been from people angry with the neighbor, whom the family believes complained about the stand. The caller didn't reveal her name to police, so it isn't confirmed that the neighbor is the woman who placed the call. Shaw's neighbor has been unavailable for comment despite repeated attempts to reach her this week.

The neighbor called police Friday morning to complain that the media had set up in front of her house and kept knocking on her door.

Phone calls also have flooded Naples City Hall, where staffers have listened to callers either praising the city for waiving the permit fee or criticizing the police for responding to the call.
"One guy was yelling, 'are you proud of what the nation thinks of your city?'" city staffer Michael Moose said. "It's pretty bizarre."

Naples police Chief Steven Moore said the city police department has received several calls, including one at 4 a.m. Friday from a man asking if officers had anything better to do than to shut down a lemonade stand. Others called irate, claiming they heard the police took Avigayil to jail. "It's taken on a life of its own," Moore said with a smile.

But Avigayil doesn't seem to realize it.
She's still a normal 6-year-old who wants to spend what little money she has on candy, art supplies and dresses she can wear when she practices her ice skating moves. She likes to show off her fingernail polish, blue on one hand and purple on the other, as she fills the plastic cups with her mother's homemade lemonade.

Avigayil says she's famous. But she doesn't realize how many people know about her. She bases fame on how many coins and dollar bills are in her tip jar. a glass vase with a sign taped across it letting customers know spare change can be tossed inside.

Since news of the lemonade stand began spreading earlier this week, she expects to be "famous" for a long time. "It makes you get lots and lots of money," Avigayil said, while holding her tip jar. "It's really fun." [/b]

Naples News

Poogas · June 22, 2003, 22:09

Just gonna have to say "What" and leave it at that.

Nubclear · June 22, 2003, 22:12

The little girl was not capitalist pigdog.....She was simply trying to help the peoples in her town while making some money for herself and her family. She was exploiting no-one.

However, the evil capitalist pigdog neighbor was being an evil capitalist, attempting to exploit her permit-less state for her own sadistic satisfaction!!

I recommend that the party LYNCH her!!!!!

darkgrendel · June 22, 2003, 22:18

Coolest little girl ever.

rmsharpe · June 22, 2003, 22:21

Sounds pretty anti-capitalistic to me, and just plain looney. It's a little kid selling freakin' lemonade.

Cruddy · June 22, 2003, 22:31

Wow. I would never have thought anyone could be so small minded and bitter.

Guess I have to move back my measurement of the human soul a few notches.

Dis · June 22, 2003, 22:35

yes her neighbor wins the most evil neighbor of the year award.

JCG · June 22, 2003, 22:36

Funny story, funny girl, funny neighbor. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

GePap · June 22, 2003, 22:40

to the story. This is what the media spends its time on?

Dis · June 22, 2003, 22:40

although I think she is charging too much.

for all we know that money isn't being used for college but being used to purchase marijuana.

DinoDoc · June 22, 2003, 22:47

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Originally posted by GePap

to the story. This is what the media spends its time on?

Local papers shouldn't cover local interest stories?

Urban Ranger · June 22, 2003, 22:53

Interesting story.

Sad troll 0/10

Dis · June 22, 2003, 22:56

would you rather have the media cover more rapes and murders?

The media can't cover all bad events all the time.

Lancer · June 22, 2003, 23:22

Intrusive government regulations

GePap · June 22, 2003, 23:22

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Originally posted by DinoDoc
Local papers shouldn't cover local interest stories?

from the article:

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Media from all over the United States have swarmed to now-famous Avigayil Wardein, a brown-haired, 6-year-old who just lost two front baby teeth. Naples police busted Avigayil on June 13 for selling lemonade without a city permit. The
story filtered through the news wires and quickly became a topic on CNN, MSNBC and Fox news networks, as well as the "Today" show and "Inside Edition."

A neighbor called the police and asked them to enforce the letter of the law..wow, shocking, monsteous. Call the neighbor an A**hole all you want, but that is really the extent of the story.

DinoDoc · June 22, 2003, 23:29

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Originally posted by GePap
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You've never heard of human interest stories?

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A neighbor called the police and asked them to enforce the letter of the law..wow, shocking, monsteous. Call the neighbor an A**hole all you want,

That seems to be the general consensus.

DanS · June 22, 2003, 23:38

Funny story.

Lancer · June 22, 2003, 23:38

The neighbor wanted the regulations obeyed. That neighbor is certainly an *******, but the regulations are also out of control. Regulations are often the tools of *******s.

Lancer · June 22, 2003, 23:40

Also the product of them.

Odin · June 23, 2003, 00:20

WTF!

If I was that girl's parent I would tear the neighbor to shreds.

DanS, you call that funney!

Where is your empathy for the girl!

Lancer · June 23, 2003, 00:24

Odin, you get the overeaction of the day award.

Odin · June 23, 2003, 00:28

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Originally posted by Lancer
Odin, you get the overeaction of the day award.

Boris Godunov · June 23, 2003, 00:48

Let's see... so the dickhead neighbor calls the cops. But the cop feels bad and buys lemonade, the city agrees it is silly and waived the fee and she's now back in business...

So, what's the big deal here? Where's the political angle?

Dis · June 23, 2003, 00:51

There is no political angle

It's just a story

Boris Godunov · June 23, 2003, 00:58

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Originally posted by Dissident
There is no political angle

It's just a story

Well! One wouldn't know that from the introduction it was given!

Ben Kenobi · June 23, 2003, 01:03

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Funny story, funny girl, funny neighbor. Nothing too out of the ordinary.

Bet she sells more lemonade NOW than before.

It all works out in the end.

Lorizael · June 23, 2003, 01:08

My guess is that the jackass neighbor had something against the kid's parents, and so took it out on the kid.

Lancer · June 23, 2003, 01:12

Well maybe we're judging too quickly here. Did anyone find out whether the lemonade she's selling was bought at retail or wholesale? Retail lemonade is not for resale...

I think we need to get the Feds in on this one.

DanielXY · June 23, 2003, 01:28

Nah, its all a plot from the little girl to maximise profit. Probably she or her parents called the cops, so everyone can feel sorry for her. Now she got the permit for free, she got free advertisment in the media, + she got now more costumers than ever before. Its time to raise the price for the lemonade and start adding more products for sell to her stand... (like overpriced t-shirts saying "I support little girl businesses" ) I bet in 5 years time she can open up a new WalMart or something

Dis · June 23, 2003, 01:39

yes, there is a possiblilty they called in the complaint themselves.

greeedy bastards. **** them, and **** that little girl too. and **** her college money.

I'm going to call in some hard hittin' brothers to put a stop to her little "business"