"We were trying to raise some money to take our dad to Splash Kingdom," 8-year-old Andria Green said

http://kltv.images.worldnow.com/interface/js/WNVideo.js?rnd=898305;hostDomain=www.kltv.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=385;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11583440;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed;galleryType=wnstory;galleryId=29279529KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX NewsTwo little girls who opened a lemonade stand to raise money for a Father’s Day gift were shut down by police for operating without a permit.

“We were trying to raise some money to take our dad to Splash Kingdom,” 8-year-old Andria Green told KLTV.

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Added her 7-year-old sister, Zoey: “We had kettle corn and lemonade. The lemonade was for 50 cents and the kettle corn was a dollar, but if you got both it was a dollar.”

However, local Overton, Texas, authorities had little sympathy for the girls when they stumbled upon their stand. “A code enforcement officer and the chief, she called me to the side and said we needed a permit,” Andria and Zoey’s mother, Sandi Green, said.

Green was shocked. It’s “ridiculous,” she said. “I think they’re 7 and 8 and they’re just trying to make money for their own cause.”

Police Chief Clyde Carter stands by the decision. “It is a lemonade stand, but they also have a permit that they are required to get,” he said. “We have to follow by the state health guidelines. They have to have a permit if they’re going to do the lemonade stands.”