Cops Buy 250 Boxes of Girl Scout Cookies From Berated Girls

[WhiteTara]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cops-buy-250-boxes-girl-scout-cookies-berated-37750665

Police in New Jersey have bought 250 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies from two sisters who were berated by a woman who said no one wanted what they were selling.

WABC-TV reports ( http://7ny.tv/1Me16n4 ) 12-year-old Natalie Skolar and her 9-year-old sister, Angelina, were selling cookies door-to-door in Scotch Plains when one homeowner began cursing at them.

Angelina says the woman shouted that she didn't want to buy cookies before she slammed her door.

An employee of the Fanwood Police Department saw a Facebook post detailing the encounter and began passing around an order sheet for cookies. The police department says it bought 250 boxes from the sisters.

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[Wilms]

1. Hope they send some Thin-Mints to sour-puss.

[wryter2000]

2. Thin mints are too good for her

They need to find some of the really old ones that tasted like lard.

[ToxMarz]

6. Just the broken ones

[liberalhistorian]

3. I really do not understand such unneccesary

rudeness. If you don't want to buy any cookies or anything else someone comes to your door to sell, then fine, no one is going to hold a gun to your head and force you to do so. All you have to do is very politely and nicely say thanks but no thanks and go on with your day. There is really no call to curse at the seller, in this case young children no less, and slam the door in their face. SMH.

[Vinca]

4. Here's an even worse Girl Scout cookie story from our paper last week.

Some Scouts were set up in a mall selling cookies and they were robbed of $400. Can you imagine? They caught the creep and it turns out he's a heroin addict. It's horrible what that stuff is doing to people in New England, but to go after Girl Scouts is pretty, pretty low.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Result of criminalizing heroin use instead of providing it free, like they do in Switzerland

Provide it free and people don't overdose, and they gain self-respect and clean up and get jobs. Usage is down 50% in a few years.

[Iris]

18. but then how would we fulfill the American desire to punish everyone for their weaknesses?

[white_wolf]

21. Can we punch conservatives for the weakness of being gullible morons? eom.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. There is a right wing boycott

of the Girl Scouts. Why these people feel they need to berate these girls is beyond me. Personally, I love Thin Mints, but I have to lose weight. When they ask me (usually outside Kroger) if I want to buy some, I tell them I would love to but I am diabetic. I'm not really, but the wife is and she has a severe sweet tooth. We don't need that kind of temptation in the house

[Vinca]

15. LOL - I'm faced with the same quandary only I usually cave. Love the Thin Mints!

[Fumesucker]

22. You don't know what's going on in people's lives

In construction you tend to run into people you don't know or don't know very well a lot on job sites since the trades work mostly for different companies and those companies don't all win bids on the same jobs so you may work with carpenters say from one company one day on one job and another company on another job the next day. Take the dozen or so trades on a typical commercial construction job and you will interact a bit with a lot of people who you may well be meeting for the first time.

There was a guy on the job one time who was acting like a real ass, sour, grumpy and miserable. My usual course of action with people like that was to avoid them or maybe give them a hard time but this time I happened to halfway jokingly ask him what his problem was.. His wife had passed away three weeks before and his only daughter had just relapsed on a really serious cancer and his world was collapsing around him.

[lpbk2713]

7. Wht is it so difficult for some people to just say "no thank you" ?

Instead, some like to show kids what assholes they can be.

[phylny]

8. Who wants my leftover Thin Mints

said no one ever.

Good for these guys, and girl scouts

[virgogal]

9. I thought cops were the enemy.

[Cryptoad]

12. No, thug cops are the enemy

[Fred Drum]

20. roughly, half

the other half just watch

[Mr.Bill]

10. I thought Girl Scouts

stopped selling door to door years ago because of safety concerns.

[dmr]

17. A scout came to my door, but with her mother.

I bought 2 boxes, which was delivered the other day.

I don't understand the rudeness. A simple "no thank you" is so easy to do, which is simply good manners.

I always support children, and I enjoy talking with them. I support giving them a positive experience.

[GoneOffShore]

11. I give money to the Scouts selling cookies and then don't take the cookies.

Mainly because I make better cookies at home yet still want to support their efforts.

[Major Nikon]

16. The local troop only gets a very small portion of the sale

I do the same thing because I don't care much for cookies in general and even if I wanted one it wouldn't be a GS cookie.

My wife and I used to be the cookie distributor for all the troops in our local area back when my daughter was in the Scouts. Back when the boxes were $3 ea, I think the troop only got something like 40 cents per sale. So it's much better for the troop if you just donate cash and it's tax deductible that way as well.

[Oneironaut]

13. Good cops! Have donuts!

We need more cops like this. The bad ones are the most known.

[yuiyoshida]

19. omg, trying to imagine 250 boxes of