'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' Star Angers Girl Scouts of America

The pint-sized star of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is in some hot water with the Girl Scouts of America.

The issue began when Alana Thompson took to her Facebook page to advertise sales for a friend, who is a member of a Georgia Girl Scout troop.

The family is selling the cookies for $3.50 a box… and each comes with autographs from the entire “Honey Boo Boo” family.

However, there are some problems… first, to sell the cookies, one must be a member of the Girl Scouts, which Alana is not.

Two, while online promotion for sales is “fair game,” it is against policy to make actual online sales.

“The celebrity factor had nothing to do with this situation.  Online sales are against policy,” the Girl Scouts said in a written statement.

“The advent of social media has created all kinds of new opportunities. Our current policy is that girls who are 13 and older can use social media to promote sales among friends and acquaintances.”

“Through an online sales approach, a girl doesn’t have the personal experience of asking someone to purchase her product,” a rep for the Girls Scouts said. “She doesn’t have to learn the responsibility of handling the money and personally delivering the order. When you have canvassed your neighborhood and manned cookie booths for hours, you learn the value of a hard day’s work. There is also a strong feeling of accomplishment when you are personally engaged in the activity."

However, Mama June Shannon doesn’t believe that her family is in the wrong.

"If I can raise more money for a troop, whoever they are, especially in an area where they don’t get a lot of money, and parents can’t afford to buy a ton of cookies, why wouldn't I help? We're doing nothing wrong,” she says.

What do you think?