On Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at 7:18:34 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

You don't have any facts about people getting sick from a lemonade stand
though. I could not find any.

I never said I did. You are only thinking of cute girls selling lemonade, I am thinking of the whole picture of a community of street side food sellers.

REMEMBER, all the cop had to do was explain that to the kids and mom.
You get ****ed at the mom over reacting but let the cop slide. Could
have been handled in two minutes and never made the news. It wasn't.

Well, while you are concentrating in such a focused manner on facts, how do you know he didn't? Do you know for a fact that he didn't?


So why did the cop not take two minutes to explain it? Done. Easy.

Again, how do you know he didn't do just that? He didn't write the parents a citation or a ticket. How do you know he wasn't just a polite guy that told the kids and their mother that the way they were doing it wasn't allowed?

It was a great stunt. Made a cop look like the asshole he is. Got what
he deserved, IMO.

Bashing of law enforcement is a really popular sport right now and in some cases, no doubt deserved. If you feel that he "got what he deserved" by enforcing the law, I am sure you must have personal knowledge of why that is so. I will defer to your knowledge of the man personally and his professional service record; I don't know him, nor was I there at the time he asked them to fold up their table.

How do I know that?

I am not sure what it is you know...


The risks are far greater from a bunch of guys,
training unknown, serving cooked food.

Reading carefully you can see that we are trained by professionals that train for a living that make their living in the food business doing just that.. Sorry if I was unclear in my description of their training and qualifications.

Accepting donations does not
make up for poor food handling techniques, it is simply a work around
for the normal restaurant regulations.

Now you are being deliberately obtuse. You are making a classic straw man argument out of two separate issues. To be clear, accepting donations is accepted by the law enforcement community and the city health board. We are skirting NOTHING, and not trying to deceive or conceal anything. Every event we have the police come by to visit (we give men in uniform free plates of food) and this last event we had the city health inspector come by. Regardless of our donation status, they can still stick a thermometer in our food anytime they feel like it if we are serving to the general public. Likewise, they inspect hand washing stations, gloves, food storage, food prep and utensil storage and use. Since we serve the public we have to (and rightfully so in my opinion) agree to those stipulations.

So WTF are we "working around"?

You can ask about it, but don't
ask the police, they'd rather arrest you.

I'll have to ask the police, or at our next event, the MPs on base those questions while they are chowing down in their Christmas Eve meal. They may not be too worried about what we are serving and how as at San Antonio Military Medical Center and the adjoining Fisher House they have their own compliance officers that inspect our food handling, preparation and serving as well as all sanitation techniques. They will not take a chance on any hospitalized soldiers or their families getting sick, so they do their own compliance inspections and will shut down the whole dinner for any violations.

On consideration, all in all probably not too different from the stringent observation of compliance issues dealt with by the lemonade girls.

Robert