U.S. | Children’s Lemonade Stand Is Robbed in Broad Daylight in Boston
The police were searching for two boys who they said flashed a gun at a girl, 11, and boy, 12, who were running the stand in South Boston on Wednesday.
The police in Boston are searching for two boys who they said flashed a handgun at a pair of children running a lemonade stand on Wednesday and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a bright pink lockbox.
The robbery, which occurred around 4:45 p.m., rattled South Boston, where it is common for children to set up lemonade stands in the summer for their first taste of the American dream. Many in the neighborhood couldn’t wrap their heads around why someone would target a pair of young entrepreneurs engaged in a time-honored childhood hustle.
Tiffany Byrne, the aunt of the two children working the lemonade stand, said that about $80 was taken.
“The fact that anyone could do this to children is horrible,” she said.
The police put out a public call Thursday aft