Man ticketed for selling Girl Scout Cookies with Daughter

**COUNTRYBUMPKIN** · 03-10-2005, 08:00 AM

Man Ticketed For Selling Girl Scout Cookies With Daughter

POSTED: 8:58 am EST March 8, 2005
UPDATED: 2:22 pm EST March 8, 2005

NEW YORK -- A Long Island man was ticketed in Brooklyn for selling Girl Scout cookies with his 13-year-old daughter.

Hoi Louis was in Williamsburg delivering the cookies with his daughter over the weekend. Louis said it was his old neighborhood, before he moved to Bethpage, and he and his daughter have been selling Girl Scout cookies there since his daughter was in first grade.

At 4:50 p.m. Saturday a police captain and a uniformed officer pulled up to their van as they were unloading cookies. Louis said the captain from the 94th Precinct ticketed him for selling cookies without a license.

The NYPD said the man and his daughter were not delivering the cookies, but instead were selling the cookies from a table they had set up on the street.

The child's grandmother, who was in the van, said her granddaughter was frightened by the police and the girl's father was flabbergasted.

**mommy2many** · 03-10-2005, 08:03 AM

sounds like they didn't have permissin to sell from a table where they were set up. My girls are in scouts and you really have to be careful anymore where you sell them. Not everyone wants to be harrassed by cookie salegirls! I think giving thema ticket is taking a little too far though the officer could have aske dthemt o leave.

**Mamawolf** · 03-10-2005, 08:38 AM

not sure about there, but a license here is only $5 for a day.

**AmyMCGS** · 03-10-2005, 07:57 PM

And then we wonder why our cops get bad press... wouldn't a warning have sufficed?

**frugalmommie** · 03-10-2005, 07:59 PM

I agree with AMYMCGS

**momof42003** · 03-10-2005, 08:05 PM

Man that cop would be having a field day here in my area... Everywhere I go, the Girl Scouts are set up... In their own driveway, at stores, and even in the school parking lots.. Most of them have that they are selling cookies printed all over their cars... I think that that cop had just a little too much time on his hands.. What about the "real" crimes that are happening in NY?? Just my opinion...