• henfredemars@infosec.pub
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    Authorities say that HOA members first summoned police due to reports of “children running an illegal lemonade stand on county right of way.”

    When the sheriff’s deputies arrived, they “found that the children were not blocking the roadway but did ask them to move back from the road a few feet for their safety.”

    Thinking the matter was resolved, the officers then moved on to other calls about parking issues in the area, only to head back to the scene of the stand when the “original reporting parties came out and began yelling at the children claiming they were on private property.”

    As the refreshment row reached fever pitch, the officers discovered that the children running the stand themselves lived within the HOA and that the lemonade pushers “had a right to be there” on the association’s communally held property, leaving the wayward youths to continue their street war against scurvy.

    Assholes.

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      Run for your local HOA to dismantle and disband it if you have one. Make it your platform and every person who’s ever gotten a petty ticket from a nosy nobody will vote for you.

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        In this area there’s a HOA but most of the people who live here are renters and don’t get a say. This leads to strange regulations that are sometimes impossible to follow.

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      Yes, but let us take a moment to appreciate the journalist’s fine end line:

      leaving the wayward youths to continue their street war against scurvy.

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      street war against scurvy

      I can just hear the guy laughing his ass off while writing this story about the most petty individuals on the face of the fucking planet.

      Honestly, if some dick cheese were harassing my kids about their lemonade stand, they would be unwittingly be subscribing to a life time supply of a burning paper bag full of dog shit on their doorstep.

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        There’s a Moby Dick/white whale joke in there somewhere but I’m not clever enough to make it.

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      They should have arrested the adults for harassing the children - could be considered assault under the right conditions.