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[Scooter]

San Diego Girl Scouts looking into whether cookie seller outside pot shop broke rules



SAN DIEGO—The San Diego Girl Scout Council is looking into whether a scout who was photographed selling cookies outside a marijuana dispensary broke any rules.

Officials were trying to identify the girl and talk to her family because she was in a commercial area, which is not allowed, council spokesperson Mary Doyle said in an email Monday.

Urbn Leaf posted a photograph of the girl on Friday outside the shop that sells medical and recreational marijuana and invited customers on its Instagram account to come get some Girl Scout cookies.

The girl — wearing her green vest of badges — is clutching boxes of cookies outside the front doors of Urbn Leaf in the photo, which was widely shared on the internet.

Urbn Leaf founder, Will Senn, said the girl was with her parents and was just passing by with her wagon. He said he likes to support local fundraising efforts.

“Cannabis is now legal in California and a direct result of that is the munchies a lot of times,” he joked.

The photo drew praise and criticism. Some objected to a child photographed outside a dispensary.

Marijuana is medicinal and not like alcohol, Senn countered, adding that doctors have been known to prescribe it to treat epilepsy in children.

About 14,000 girls participate in San Diego’s Girl Scout cookie program.

“As Girl Scouts, we assume good intent,” Doyle said. “When we learn that a girl is in violation of a standard/guideline, we almost always discover that the parent was unaware of the rules.”

If a rule is broken again, the girl could lose the awards she earned by selling a certain number of boxes of cookies, but Doyle said that is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Urbn Leaf wants to talk to the council and clear up any misunderstandings, Senn said.

“I’ve been in the cannabis industry a long time and worked to bring it out of the shadows,” he said.

Since the use of recreational marijuana became legal in California on Jan. 1, Senn said it is rapidly becoming accepted.

“Anytime we can help out by driving more people to support local fundraising like a Girl Scout selling cookies, we’ll do that,” he said.

[BoSoxGal]

Whaaaaat? I've seen Girl Scouts selling cookies at tables outside retail stores in every state I've lived in - last year, some enterprising Scouts were selling their leftover stock at a table outside Dunkin on a Sunday morning.

Apparently this rule is widely broken!

[MGMcAnick]

The noon news reported that the girl was not AT the front door of the "store", but with her father AWAY to the side of the entrance. The video showed her across a parking lot. The local Girl Scout Council said that she was indeed following their rules.

Nothing happening here. Move on.

[Scooter]

I just thought it funny that someone thought to sell munchies outside of a pot store...

[ex-khobar Andy]

Whaaaaat? I've seen Girl Scouts selling cookies at tables outside retail stores in every state I've lived in - last year, some enterprising Scouts were selling their leftover stock at a table outside Dunkin on a Sunday morning.

Apparently this rule is widely broken!

Me too. Certainly NY, KY and MO.

[RayThom]

Oh, the poor kid. This might ruin her chances to earn the coveted Water Sports Merit Badge.

[BoSoxGal]

[datsunaholic]

Whaaaaat? I've seen Girl Scouts selling cookies at tables outside retail stores in every state I've lived in - last year, some enterprising Scouts were selling their leftover stock at a table outside Dunkin on a Sunday morning.

Apparently this rule is widely broken!

Me too. Certainly NY, KY and MO.

No kidding. During Cookie season it's like walking the gauntlet outside of every grocery store in town. They camp out right by the door.

[Bicycle Bill]

No kidding. During Cookie season it's like walking the gauntlet outside of every grocery store in town.

Yet another example of the dumbing down of the language.  The proper phrase is 'running the gantlet', defined as "to go through an intimidating or dangerous crowd, place, or experience in order to reach a goal", from the historical practice of torment or punishment of receiving blows while running between two rows of men armed with sticks or clubs.  A 'gauntlet', on the other hand (pun intended), was originally a glove worn with medieval armor to protect the hand and has since come to mean any sort of protective glove, generally with an extended cuff to cover the wrist and forearm, used especially in industry.

But enough people either didn't know the difference — or did and just didn't care — and used the word gauntlet indiscriminately.  It is said that two wrongs do not make a right; however, apparently hundreds of thousands of wrongs do, so that we have reached the point at which we are today ... where most dictionaries, including the venerable OED, consider 'gauntlet' to be an acceptable alternative spelling of 'gantlet'.

-"BB"-

[datsunaholic]

Hlêoðorcwide behwirfan. ðe ðritig we dihtan angelic ðêos.

[BoSoxGal]

[RayThom]

Hlêoðorcwide behwirfan. ðe ðritig we dihtan angelic ðêos.

Amen to that.

[Joe Guy]

Gauntlet is a gantlet of another colour.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Hlêoðorcwide behwirfan. ðe ðritig we dihtan angelic ðêos.

Google Translate is not very helpful here.

Hlêoðorcwide behwirfan. It is a Roman Catholic church.

But it also suggests:

Did you mean: Hlêoðorcwide benh wirfan. ðe ðritig we dinhtan angelic ðêos.

Well OK then.

Hlêoðorcwide benh wirfan. We are in Angels.

This is not getting me very far.

ETA - and BTW it doesn't look very Vietnamesey (as Google Translate claims) to me. Looks more Nordic.

[Econoline]

I'm guessing it's Old English (Anglo-Saxon), but I have no idea what it means.

[datsunaholic]

That's because I don't speak (or write) Old English. It's a badly (bot) translation of "words change or we would write like this".