Cookie wars ceasefire

[Gob]

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOX/AP) – The city of Hazelwood says they do support the Girl Scouts but not when they are violating the home occupancy code.

They’d been warned, but the city says the Girl Scouts Abigail and Caitlin Mills continued to sell Girl Scout cookies from a stand in front of their home. A neighbor complained anonymously because of all the people and the traffic and the dogs barking at all the people and the traffic.

“Based on this complaint, the city of Hazelwood had to take action,” says spokesman Tim Davidson. He says it is also against city code to sell products from home.

And while he has heard some complaints from residents that Hazelwood is being too harsh on the teens, Davidson says others have pointed out that one tenet of the Girl Scouts is good citizenship.

“The fact that we did have this code in place, it’s the responsibility of every good citizen to respect the laws that we have,” said Davidson.

But the girls’ mother, Carolyn Mills, is vowing to let them keep selling their cookies, until they reach their goal of 2,000 purchases.

She says the cookie stand is equally important as a learning opportunity. “This is teaching leadership, communication, entrepreneurship,” Mills explains. “They’re getting to know the value of money, and how to keep people from ripping you off.”

Mills says the cookie stand has been a six year tradition, that started by chance. “We were parked in the driveway, counting the cookies in the back of the van, when suddenly a car pulled up and the driver asked if we had any extras,” explained Mills. “And then another car pulled up. And another.”

UPDATE:

The battle of the cookies is over in Hazelwood.

Wednesday the Rev. George Hutchings bought the last 36 boxes. Hutchings took some boxes and told the mother and daughters to give the rest to neighbors.

http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2011/03/24/ ... t-cookies/

[Miles]

What I want to know is, are their cookies made out of real girl scouts?

[Joe Guy]

"“This is teaching leadership, communication, entrepreneurship,” Mills explains. “They’re getting to know the value of money, and how to keep people from ripping you off.”

And they're also learning how to violate city codes and irritate neighbors in order to make money for their corporation, which will in turn reward them with prizes for selling large amounts of junk food.

[Big RR]

Well, there is a zoning regulation covering it, but somehow I doubt that a cookie stand would bring that much extra "traffic". The complaining person reminds me of neighbors we had when I was growing up, including one who used to curse us out when we played stick ball (a street variation of baseball using a broomstick as the bat and a rubber ball) in front of his house (which of course made us kids do that every day, even when we really didn't want to play stickball, just to tick him off).

[MajGenl.Meade]

"“This is teaching leadership, communication, entrepreneurship,” Mills explains. “They’re getting to know the value of money, and how to keep people from ripping you off.”

And they're also learning how to violate city codes and irritate neighbors in order to make money for their corporation, which will in turn reward them with prizes for selling large amounts of junk food.

I kept people from ripping me off by refusing to buy Girl Scout Cookies. A billion dollars for a big box with a measly few mint thins in it and lots of space.

Meade

PS Ok so my granddaughter ripped me off

[Sue U]

I have no idea how many municipal sales and solicitation ordinances I violated the last two months taking my girls door-to-door selling Girl Scout cookies. All I can say is, "Come and get us, coppers!"

[loCAtek]

No one makes Thin Mints like the Girl Scouts.

[Long Run]

A neighbor complained anonymously because of all the people and the traffic and the dogs barking at all the people and the traffic.

* * *

Wednesday the Rev. George Hutchings bought the last 36 boxes. Hutchings took some boxes and told the mother and daughters to give the rest to neighbors.

Causing a run on Samoas. No wonder the prices seem so much higher this year.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Surely the free distribution would tend to cause a reduction of the inflationary effect of the mass purchase? It's good to see a Christian man who reads the Girl Scout Manual:

Now George was old and advanced in years; and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the cookies still remain to be possessed. 2 These are the cookies that still remain: all the Samoas, and all those of the Thin Mints 3 and those of the Shout Outs! in the pantry; half of the Savannahs and ten percent of the Trefoils. 4 Now therefore divide these cookies for an inheritance to the neighbours.”

[Crackpot]

If you want to get you moneys worth from Girl scout cookies buy the shortbreads.

[rubato]

Anonymous complaint?

What a nasty little cowardly puke. I can see that if there is such an ordinance that they do have to enforce it when it is called to their attention; but I cannot see that an "anonymous" complaint should be allowed at all. Either someone stands up like a man and puts their name on it for all the world to see or no action.

Since when do Americans allow anonymous accusers to govern public life?


yrs,
rubato

[@meric@nwom@n]

So the only acceptable intolerance is the intolerance of the intolerant?

Might be a shift worker who made the complaint. You know those folks that you 9-5ers don't seem to understand exist in large numbers?

But hell, just as long as your little spawn gets to sell her cookies why bother to teach her some consideration along with it?

[dales]

How long do GS cookie sales last, two weeks or so?

Bugger off, ya old cocker!

OOPS!

Directed at the misanthropic subject of the article and NOT A/W.

[dales]

If you want to get you moneys worth from Girl scout cookies buy the shortbreads.

Correcto mundo!

I just purchased a box of Somoans (they were out of Thin Mints).

[Sue U]

How long do GS cookie sales last, two weeks or so?

Here it lasted about 6 or 7 weeks -- from the end of Jan to the 2nd week of Mar. I still have a leftover case of Peanut Butter Sandwich cookies to move; I can only force my support staff to buy so much.

[@meric@nwom@n]

How long do GS cookie sales last, two weeks or so?

Bugger off, ya old cocker!

OOPS!

Directed at the misanthropic subject of the article and NOT A/W.

So as long as you get what you want fuck everyone else eh? Figures.

[rubato]

So the only acceptable intolerance is the intolerance of the intolerant?

Might be a shift worker who made the complaint. You know those folks that you 9-5ers don't seem to understand exist in large numbers?

But hell, just as long as your little spawn gets to sell her cookies why bother to teach her some consideration along with it?

Then the shift worker would have a legitimate and perfectly understandable reason to want the law enforced and would be ok with putting their name on it.


yrs,
rubato

[loCAtek]

True, I'm a shift worker, and know there are much noisier things than Girls Scouts in the world. Me, I'm close enough to hear the trolley going ding-ding-ding -HONK every day, not just during cookie selling season.

[dales]

How long do GS cookie sales last, two weeks or so?

Bugger off, ya old cocker!

OOPS!

Directed at the misanthropic subject of the article and NOT A/W.

So as long as you get what you want fuck everyone else eh? Figures.

Not really, ask any parent.

eta: My two daughters have turned out quite well despite never being a members of the GSA.

[oldr_n_wsr]

from a stand in front of their home

Would it be "legal" if they moved the stand into their driveway ?