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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Somewhere There is a Failure to Communicate
Girl Scout cookie time has come and gone. (mmm... Thin Mints... ) I have to admit, I'm not a big fan of the new way they sell cookies (the cookie stands in front of grocery stores/Walmart/etc.), but this is a little silly.
While I do miss the way they used to sell cookies (you went door to door, people ordered cookies, you turned in the order form, picked up the order, then delivered them to your friends and family), I can see one reason they had to change their ways- safety. There are too many weirdos in the world today. Going door to door nowadays is just not smart anymore. And, that's just sad.
A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter. Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade. At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled up to their van as they were unloading cookies. Louis said the captain from the 94th Precinct ticketed him for selling cookies without a license. The NYPD said the man and his daughter were not delivering the cookies, but instead were selling the cookies from a table they had set up on the street. The child's grandmother, who was in the van, said her granddaughter was frightened by the police and the girl's father was flabbergasted.There's actually a law against selling cookies without a license? These people need a life. This is just like ticketing some poor kid for setting up a lemonade stand. And, in this case, the police can't claim the man and his daughter were trying to profit from this, and there was no health issue- the cookie boxes are sealed. If this 13 year old girl had gone to City Hall to get a license, they would have told her not to worry about it- I mean, she's just a kid. And, if she had been out there by herself, the police would have gotten on the dad's case for his carelessness. Poor family can't win for trying.
While I do miss the way they used to sell cookies (you went door to door, people ordered cookies, you turned in the order form, picked up the order, then delivered them to your friends and family), I can see one reason they had to change their ways- safety. There are too many weirdos in the world today. Going door to door nowadays is just not smart anymore. And, that's just sad.
