"We've got better things to do than set up catering trucks to get busted,"

[The Straight Story]

Torrance (CA) food-truck raid outrages fundraisers

One moment, 13 invited food trucks were serving hundreds of diners on a Torrance elementary school campus at an educational fundraiser.

The next moment, the long-planned event had come to a screeching halt, as police raided the gathering and issued citations to trucks without business licenses, prompting some to hurriedly head for the exits.

"It looked like some sort of weird druglord movie where the cops were coming and everyone is running for the hills," said William Mackey, a director with the Yukon Elementary Academic Alliance, a nonprofit group affiliated with the north Torrance school of the same name.

...

"That was not supposed to have happened," he said. "There was no intent to do that.

"We've got better things to do than set up catering trucks to get busted," Scotto added. "We don't need the bad PR. They just need to follow the rules and there would be no issues with this."

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_19413536

[Why Syzygy]

1. Cops?

Cops enforce business licenses? Looks like civil to me.

[msongs]

4. motorized vehicles nt

[MADem]

2. Wonder how big the fines were?

Even at, say, two hundred a truck, that's a twelve hundred dollar take.

Sounds like a revenue generating scheme to me.

[lib2DaBone]

3. Wait until they outlaw Sugar, Salt and Caffein.

No more morning coffee... you will be busted along with MJ users as "Evil Drug Users".

George Orwell was right... we are already there.