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Mayor shuts down home produce stand operated by kids
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, August 21, 2008 12:48 PM | permalink
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Clayton, California Mayor Gregg Manning is punishing two little kids for 
taking the initiative to sell their own garden
produce from a card table in front of their house.

Manning ordered police to raid their operation because the neighborhood isn't 
zoned for commerce, and because it
constituted an imaginary traffic hazard.

     Clayton Mayor Gregg Manning ... wonders what Katie and Sabrina might do 
with that produce stand if the zoning laws
weren't enforced.

     "They may start out with a little card-table and selling a couple of 
things, but then who is to say what else they
have. Is all the produce made there, do they make it themselves? Are they 
going to have eggs and chickens for sale
next," said Manning.

Eggs and chickens? The horror.

Young girls fight produce stand closure (via Reason)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=6339365