It was a regular Friday for them, as they’d spent Fridays during the summer selling lemonade on a street corner. 7, Jude Peterson was selling lemonade with a friend in Peoria, Illinois. “I wasn’t expecting it to become the way it did,” she said. Two Kids with Lemonade Stand Robbed at Gunpoint, Police Say. Since Glover posted the photo of the police with the children on Facebook, she said dozens of customers have stopped by for lemonade and the children have made hundreds of dollars in only three days. The police officers said the children weren’t doing anything wrong even if their roadside stand created some traffic. Thanks Town of Newburgh Police Department,” she wrote in an accompanying caption. Instead of the officers shutting it down they decided to have a cup themselves. Calling the police on kids with a lemonade stand is a dick move on the part. “Some bitter person decided to call the cops on them. If you look at the locations where such a thing has happened you will note. The two police officers then proceeded to buy some lemonade and pose for a photo with the children, which Glover posted on Facebook. “His first words were, ‘Can you believe someone called the cops on kids selling lemonade?’” she recalled. A 14-year-old named Emily in Macomb, Mich., has been running the Happy Day Lemonade stand in her neighborhood since she was 4-years-old. However, when Officers Clayton Dubois and Thomas O’Connell of the Town of Newburgh Police Department approached the group, Glover said they received an unexpected greeting from them. Some kids are so dedicated to the art of selling lemonade that they’ve been doing it for years. It seemed someone in the neighbourhood had called the police about the children’s lemonade stand. The girls later challenged police to a water balloon fight, and the department accepted while continuing the spirit of goodwill. “We were probably out there for an hour and a half when I noticed the cop car pull up,” Glover told local station News 12 Westchester on Wednesday. The lemonade stand kids’ interaction with police didn’t end there.
Whitney Glover said her two children and a few other kids in her neighbourhood of Newburgh, located 107 kilometres north of New York City, decided to set up a roadside lemonade stand during rush hour on Monday evening. A pair of New York police officers is earning praise after they were called to shut down a neighbourhood lemonade stand and bought drinks instead.