10-year-old ticketed, fined for lemonade stand

[Watchdog]

Okay, so I see this on the news, and of course, it makes my blood boil. Some little girl was trying to sell lemonade in the park and park rangers come over and ask for a permit. She and her father explain they don't have one and offer to move on; however, the rangers write her up anyway. The poor father, with his little girl looking on, lifts up the pink ticket.

I'm thinking ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGEOUS!

And I almost click out of the story . . .

But I stick with it and at the very end--of a several minute piece--the father reveals that the park comissioner himself called to say the ticket would in effect be torn up and the commissioner has also instructed rangers not to write up individuals for similar situations.

So, what sounded like a completely irrational story ended up okay with a reasonable result. But I bet half the people didn't finish the interview clip and went away thinking "What idiots we have in authority."

I don't know, just get a tad tired of headlines and blurbs and blips in this short attention span age that do not capture or convey the full story.

Any headlines you can think of that fit this topic?