The Top Ten Dumbest Fines In America

#2 – Opening a Lemonade Stand

Kids do some outlandish things from time to time. Thankfully, we have county government to remind them that opening a lemonade stand will cause total anarchy. That’s why a 10-year-old received a $500 ticket for serving lemonade outside a golf tournament. She should probably apply for a permit right after she’s done playing hide-n-seek.

Of course, county officials remind us: “It wasn’t that we were the big hand of county government trying to come down and squash anything…We were attempting to do what a government is charged with doing, which is protecting communities and protecting the safety of people.”

I’ll file that excuse right next to leprechauns and unicorns.