Liam Rader, 11, of San Diego has a side hustle slinging lemonade on a street corner near his home. He's been saving up for a dirt bike. Then the unthinkable happened.
In the video below, you can see that Rader briefly left his stand unattended to fetch more cups. Moments before he returned, a gray pickup truck drove by, did a U-turn, and then the driver jumped out and tossed the table and chairs into the truck bed. He left the sign behind.
"My initial thought was maybe he thought it was free because a lot of people leave things up by the road," Liam's mother Kery told Inside Edition. "I was hoping it was a misunderstanding."
Not to be deterred, Liam says his new sign will read: "'Lemonade Stand – Stand and Chairs Not Included"
(Thanks, Chanté McCormick!)
Previously:
• 7-year-old starts a lemonade stand to bury her mother
• Unlicensed lemonade stands will soon be legal in New Hampshire and Illinois
• Kids' lemonade stand shuttered by police chief
• Texas cops shut down two little girls' lemonade stand
• When life hands you cancer, make cancer-ade: via lemonade stand, 6yo boy raises $10K for dad's chemo
• Country Time will pay your kids' lemonade stand fines this summer
