VIDEO: Three Arrested for Selling Lemonade on 'Lemonade Freedom Day'

• Who knew that a little lemon held so many health benefits? Studies have shown that water with lemon helps to eliminate toxins from the body, stimulates a sluggish digestive system when drunk in the morning, balances blood sugars, balances the pH of the body, prevents constipation and cures heartburn. Besides all that, water with lemon is a good source of Vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant!

• Yep.  People can get sick from drinking lemonade sold by kids.  It happens. So now we have to decide if we suppress all such dangers (prohibiting running in parks, playing basketball in cul-de-sacs, etc) as we have been, or if it's okay to have a little responsible danger in exchange for being able to do things like having kids play with their neighbors (which is what a lemonade stand really is), or run on grass in parks or play basketball on a low traffic street. Either way can be argued for.  It's just that the people who want to be safe can avoid those activities, whereas if they are encoded in law, then the people who want their kids to engage in those activities or get a big grin from the kid down the street by paying a dollar for a 50 cent cup of lemonade can not legally do so.  My wife loves watching kids make change and discuss math with them. By the way, you don't have to drink the lemonade, even if you do buy it.  Same thing for girl scout cookies... I always buy them when the girls are out in public, but the boxes usually go to work with my wife who gives them away to fellow faculty.

• its one thing to get in trouble to sell lemonde on your own property but to deliberatly go sell lemonade somewhere where u know its against the law is another, i think they was very stupid in doing what they did and didnt think this out to well they only showed ignorance of being protestors without a purpose... They broke the law on purpose and their actions can not be justified in no way... To me they only set an example of people to rob and kill just to see if they can get away with it knowing its against the law... They should of used a different approach in their cause...

• I guess it's hard to imagine, but Is it possible that someone could get sick from some type of contaminated lemonade? Overall, laws exist and are enforced because some group of legislators believes they are protecting people from something. Certainly there are exceptions to that.

• You're right, those cops sure need to get new jobs. They're not cut out to be officers.

• Yep, nothing says entrepreneurship like learning how to "ump through the necessary hoops."  "You there, you're not getting anywhere without that Form 1065EZ filled out in triplicate without the correct endorsements and signed riders. Come back in a week."

• So why is it that the police can incite violence then respond with violence?

• Yes, because we want our seven-year-old sons and daughters to become depressed and demoralized by the number of hoops they have to go through to make and sell five bucks' worth of lemonade. At the risk of sounding like, well, pretty much every Orange County stereotype, at some point personal responsibility ("those kids have grubby hands so I don't think I want their lemonade") needs to be included in the food safety rules.

• These people need to get jobs.

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