100PercentFedUp.com By Danielle
A 13-year-old Girl Scout and her mother received $400 in fines for selling cookies from a driveway owned by the teenager’s grandparents.
Erica Fairbanks McCarroll and her daughter Emma set up a stand on Erica’s parents property, which sits adjacent to the main thoroughfare of Pinedale, Wyoming.
However, that didn’t stop a municipal code officer from giving the mother and daughter hundreds of dollars in fines.
Your reminder that most zoning and code enforcement is busy bodies doing nonsensical things, like fining Girl Scouts for selling cookies in their own grandparents' driveway. https://t.co/ToCrGIAXGu
— Dan King (@Kinger_DC) April 29, 2024
Cowboy State Daily reports:
Emma McCarroll, 13, almost didn’t meet her sales goal because the code enforcement officer was an expert on the rules of where a Girl Scout in Pinedale can stand — and where her mom could park their car while selling them.
The spat between the city and the Girl Scout and her mom began when the code enforcement officer asked the mom, Erica Fairbanks McCarroll, if she had the landowner’s permission to sell from the city’s Pine Avenue spot and park a vehicle in a driveway there.
Puzzled, Fairbanks McCarroll didn’t answer the officer’s question because the spot where she parked was in the driveway of her parents.
The officer never made the connection on who owned the driveway and the people using the driveway to sell Girl Scout Cookies.
“I personally don’t think she ever understood that I was related to the Fairbanks, my parents who own the driveway,” Fairbanks McCarroll said.
Nonetheless, the officer snapped photographs of their sales activity between March 13 and 15 to prove that Emma McCarroll had set up the stand, and mom had parked illegally in the driveway, which straddled the public sidewalk on Pine Avenue.
A 13-year-old Girl Scout from Pinedale was surprised when a local by-the-book municipal code officer slapped her with more than $400 in fines for selling Girl Scout Cookies.https://t.co/5Tiyt5GQYq
— Cowboy State Daily (@daily_cowboy) April 23, 2024
According to Cowboy State Daily, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) essentially controls the small town’s main thoroughfare and claims ownership of the property…
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