That’s only what the reporter said. I think the stand was still in the set-up phase. The proprietor had built the key infrastructure and was in the process of supplying the goods for sale when the crime occurred.
I’m trying to think of a way in which Moar Guns would have prevented this theft. Even if the boy had been tooled up to the nines, he wasn’t ever in realistic range of the perp. Perhaps a Claymore mine on the lemonade stand?
To be serious, though, I’d agree this was clearly an actual theft, not a mistake. What kind of guy cruises the streets and suddenly decides to half-inch some garden furniture on impulse? Maybe his neighbours will peach on him, after they view the TV news.
