To think people have nothing better to do? (Girl selling lemonade)

[Meowstro]

I am not BU, I cannot be but I'm pretty sure Tower Hamlets and the person who is likely to have complained WBVVVU. Sure the father should have known better, but really charging a 5 year old a fine for selling lemonade? Thank goodness we're clamping down on all of those people who really deserve it!

Article here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/21/girl-fined-running-homemade-lemonade-stall

I blame her dad. It's hardly like she set it up on her own and toddled off to Lovebox. It's not like it was a little table set up at the end of her garden.

You can't just set up a stall selling food or drink made in a kitchen that hasn't had health and safety checks. It's against the law and could make people ill.

He should have been prepared for the fact that they'd be shut down if enforcement officers saw. As it was, he was issued with the fine - not the kid. And the fine has been cancelled.

Shame we can't see her sadface. She looks like a cute little moppet

My sons used to sell some of their little toys outside our house when they were younger. I would not have gone to a newspaper, even a quality one, if this had happened. I would have something to say about it to the Council though

Glad they have responded reasonably Seamstress

And she wasn't blocking the path, the table was set back from the pavement.

Plus, as much as there were thousands of people, they didn't look pilled or coked up at that stage, not many people want to be wasted before they even get to the festival......

Oh and her Dad is a 'professor' for City University. Which is nothing to shout about and probably means he's pretty much unemployable by normal academic standards.

Maths, we must have arrived at different times! When I got there it was rammed, the police were there with drugs dogs and people were dumping stuff in drains along the road . And nope to the other question, I go for the music!

Conversely, there were 2 vans I saw with a professional coffee machine making espresso cocktails at £6 a pop....

So what do you expect them to do? Fine the vans but let her off because she's cute? Next time they will all bring their kids...

Ooh Margaret. Get back into the knife drawer, Miss Sharp!

I love the descriptions from the po-faced of it being an "operation" as if it's a vast criminal lemonade making factory. It was a table from her home with a couple of jugs of home made lemonade, complete with seeds and pith floating about, selling for 50p.

Difference being the vans were professional companies, clearly.

I thought the Cass Business School was highly regarded?

ALTHOUGH..

Hardly her father conducting a mastermind plan to make quick money if she was selling it for 50p However, very interesting that The Guardian failed to mention it coincided with Lovebox and the way to get in!

That report is a bit... metro, isn't it?

I didn't mean that she should have been allowed to do it I meant that the fine was ridiculous. Just letting her know it wasn't allowed - kindly - and telling the father that next time there'd have to be a fine would have done the trick.

Notlachs - my point exactly. Since when was it necessary to issue a fine when telling someone not to do something. Presumably the council have some arrangement to reward the officers for any tix they give out.

Given dad is at a business uni perhaps it's part of a research paper.

Well I hadn't heard of City University, so I suppose it's all publicity

My sister and I used to do stuff like this, parents had no part of it. We were forever selling things and coming up with plans to get money off grown ups who thought we were cute. Gone are the days I suppose

Oh and her Dad is a 'professor' for City University. Which is nothing to shout about and probably means he's pretty much unemployable by normal academic standards.

LOL!

My friend went down to brick lane to try and sell some of her unwanted stuff to get a bit of cash together when things were tight. She got hit with a £150 fine for unlicensed trading. Shame she didn't have a cute baby with her...

Oh and her Dad is a 'professor' for City University. Which is nothing to shout about and probably means he's pretty much unemployable by normal academic standards.

Not sure what this comment is about, but glad you have his CV there. I don't know if that was a dig at the uni or the person. But my guess is that he doesn't make peanuts.

I blame her dad. It's hardly like she set it up on her own and toddled off to Lovebox. It's not like it was a little table set up at the end of her garden.

I don't know why this point is repeated. Of course her dad helped her.

chili do you know them?

FWIW until recently City University's main claim to fame was how empty it's lectures and seminars were because hardly any of their students attended or completed their courses because it was mainly used as a back door immigration scam for people who really wanted to work because the courses were so easy to get on and the entry requirements so low.

Yes her dad helped her ffs! Maybe he lacked the same kind of common sense the officer did when he thought it to be a good idea but I'm in agreement with NotLachsAgainMother, the fine was ridiculous.