Florida Man Reports Child’s Lemonade Stand To Authorities. You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next! | Wonkette

Ya know that ole saying, "karma's a bitch?" Here's a story only Wonkette could tell.

Today’s lesson in not being a curmudgeonly dickhead comes to us courtesy of Dunedin, Florida, where 12-year-old T.J. Guerrero, an enterprising lad who runs his own lemonade stand, has won a victory over the forces of darkness that hoped to teach him a lesson about the over-regulated nanny state by shutting him down forever. Ha, we’re kidding. The forces of darkness was really one force, an older guy who just didn’t like the kid and his friends and their skateboards and their saggy pants and hippy-hop music or whatnot. Also, clouds.

Guerrero began running his stand (a card table with a folding chair and a sign) at the corner of his street two years ago and has used the money (along with whatever he has earned mowing lawns) to buy himself an iPod, pay his cellphone bill, and take his mom out to dinner. None of the neighbors mind, except 61-year-old Doug Wilkey, who lives a couple of doors down from where Guerrero set up the stand. Wilkey has complained in writing to City Hall at least four times in the last two years about the stand, becoming increasingly shrill as authorities refused to step in and shut down this flagrantly unlicensed business that, he claims, is lowering the property value of his home, what with all the trash allegedly being tossed on his lawn and Guerrero’s skateboarding friends cursing while hanging out on the sidewalk. Children on a public sidewalk in a residential neighborhood! Why we never!

Florida Man Reports Child’s Lemonade Stand To Authorities. You’ll Never Guess What Happened Next! | Wonkette