Mistletoe sale gets 11-year-old girl booted from Portland Saturday Market

I'm used to it by now.

 

I think every single city council, state legislature or Congress should be required to repeal every law that isn't enforced before they pass any new ones. Selective enforcement of a law means there is no law at all. They are kept on the books so people are always guilty of something.

 

Like I said, there's the letter of the law and there's the spirit of the law...

 

All laws are selectively enforced. So the solution lies with whom we trust to arrest and persecute...er...prosecute us.

 

I essentially agree with Maris. If she wants to sell it in front of her house, fine. But selling it in a market where people make their livelihood by renting space and paying for permits only to get undersold by some kid from Lake Oswego with zero overhead, yeah...not a good look.

 

The more I learn about this story, the more it seems like a stunt by the dad to get someone else to pay for braces.

He went to the media with this story. Nobody can find the security guard. The family has a house in Lake Oswego, and the dad has a very good job. The donation website went up Sunday night, before the media even reported the story.

Another day or so, and we'll have to move this hoax to the Gay Waitress thread.

 

I hate the way dad handled that situation. I understand the girl selling mistletoe. I understand police enforcing it if that is the law (no arrests just telling her she can't do it here, unless gets a permit or booth), I don't understand dad encouraging her daughter to bend the law ( and the donation thing if dad can afford the braces is way over the top).

If daughter is really a go getter and wants to do something about it, her and dad should write an exception to the law or ordinace and get that adopted by the city or state legislature. She could even personally testify as an example to the unfairness of it all. Win or lose, that would be a good experience for the daughter. Not going back to the scene with a bunch of mistletoe, giving a speech and looking for more donations. Terrible idea dad!

 

This thread was veering into troll talk about the nation's most ridiculous laws until Maris set it straight. The law stopping the mistletoe girl is a good law. So the trolls called Maris a troll.

 

What Papa said.

 

Here is Ashton Root talking about his job in start-up PR and launch money.

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