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When I was a kid....the crime rate in America was actually much, much higher.

Suck it, reactionaries and everyone's nostalgic grandparents.

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Come on, you just know that RW pundits are licking their chops over this one.

"Robbing a small business? Why, that kid has a bright future in government!"

"He robbed a small business? Who does he think he is, [choose one] Obama/Pelosi/Reid/Obamacare/a Liebrul/a government bureaucrat...?"

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wait until that twelve year old knocks over the little girl down the block and robs her Easy Bake Oven

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Squeeze my lemon 'til the juice runs down my stand Squeeze it so hard, I'll fall right out of bed Squeeze my lemon, 'til the juice runs down my stand

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Is this going to sour the 10 year old's view on the free market?

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So you typed this from your mother's basement?

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green grass and high tides forever

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I blame the Dukes

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I think this is called a "hostile takeover" in bizzy parlance, so it seems perfectly entrepreneurial to me. If Goldman Sachs are entrepreneurs, then the kid who holds up the lemonade stand is as well.

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Well I hope it doesn't go sour

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Hey, hands off, that's where I eat MY Cheetos!

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This is just depressing. Talk about making lemons from lemonade.

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The ten year old should have invested that $30 in a nice used Saturday Night Special- problem solved

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talk about a hostile takeover

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I'm holding out for a full auto poop cannon

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kid should have planned ahead and put his lemonade stand in an M1-A1

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