--- title: Girl Scout Cookie Fight, Arrest description: Two teenagers were arrested following an altercation demanding cookies at a Girl Scout cookie stand outside of a Florida Wal-Mart. canonical: https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-28T21:22:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:30.782Z og:title: Fight Breaks Out at Girl Scout Cookie Stand Over $20 Debt og:description: Two teenagers were arrested following the altercation. og:url: https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt736e7b45211acf4c/6988bc64cd1bba16d770425f/girl-scout-cookies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: New Girl Scout Cookies og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fight Breaks Out at Girl Scout Cookie Stand Over $20 Debt twitter:description: Two teenagers were arrested following the altercation. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt736e7b45211acf4c/6988bc64cd1bba16d770425f/girl-scout-cookies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Fight Broke Out at Girl Scout Cookie Stand Proving We Can't Have Nice Things  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 28, 2017 9:22 PM UTC  The new Smores Girl Scout cookies from the Girl Scouts two bakeries. The new Smores Girl Scout cookies from the Girl Scouts two bakeries.The Washington Post—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Feb 28, 2017 9:22 PM UTC Tensions can run high when you’re looking to get your sugar rush, as was the case in Flagler County, Florida over the weekend. Two teenaged boys were arrested by local police after an altercation with a family selling [Girl Scout Cookies](http://time.com/4617635/girl-scout-cookies-smores-2017/) at a stand outside of a Wal-Mart in the Palm Coast. According [to the police report](http://www.flaglersheriff.com/images/Commander%5FReport/Commander%5FReport%5F2-25-17%5FNight%5FShift.pdf) and local news, the boys were looking to collect a $20 debt from one of the girls, but Scout leaders refused. They demanded to be paid in cookies instead—an alternative payment plan that an adult on the scene denied, according to the [Daytona Beach News-Journal.](http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170227/20-debt-leads-to-melee-at-palm-coast-girl-scout-cookie-stand) So they knocked over the cookie stand, strewing tables and boxes of cookies around, which began a “large disturbance with the family.” The interaction escalated into a full-on fistfight; another teenager driving by came to assist the mother of one of the Girl Scouts, and the father was taken to the hospital for a sprained neck and shoulder. The two teens were ultimately charged with a total of four counts of battery and two counts of disorderly conduct, an outcome from the evening that proved to be far less than sweet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/"},"headline":"A Fight Broke Out at Girl Scout Cookie Stand Proving We Can't Have Nice Things","datePublished":"2017-02-28T21:22:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:30.782Z","description":"Two teenagers were arrested following the altercation.","url":"https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt736e7b45211acf4c/6988bc64cd1bba16d770425f/girl-scout-cookies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt736e7b45211acf4c/6988bc64cd1bba16d770425f/girl-scout-cookies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"New Girl Scout Cookies","caption":"New Girl Scout Cookies","creditText":"The Washington Post—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4686036/girl-scout-cookie-fight/","name":"A Fight Broke Out at Girl Scout Cookie Stand Proving We Can't Have Nice Things"}}]}] ```