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>What percent of unlicensed lemonade stands get shut down these days anyway?

Is the lemonade stand in some upper class suburb where children should be accompanied at all times?

Are the neighbors busybodies?

Do the neighbors and or town government have a bone to pick with whoever's kids have a lemonade stand?

Is this in a region where calling the authorities over minor transgressions is socially acceptable?

Do the local authorities readily enable this behavior by never using their discretion to not enforce something?

If the answer to the affirmative is all of the above then I think a visit from the authorities is highly likely but most people wouldn't let their kids run an unlicensed lemonade stand in that kind of neighborhood in the first place.

I don't think most jurisdictions even have a license that's applicable to and appropriate for a lemonade stand. It's not like it's a serious commercial operation.




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