and they have made that better by apologising and saying that their officers should have used common sense?
they clearly mucked up. They've admitted it.
so why was it revoked and an apology issued? your above expanation would be totally passable to people. But they didn't, they apologised for their obvious error of judgement and stated that their officers should have used common sense.
see above. I disagree with you that it was his idea.That said it's almost irrelevant. Even if it was his idea (which is ambiguous) i would have no problems with my 5 year old selling what looks like homemade lemonade in plastic cups to people for 50p and there is no way on earth she should have...