No soliciting permit ... no tax ID ... no withholding tax ... no unemployment insurance tax ... no sales tax permit ... no dumping permit ... no worker's comp ... no environmental impact statement ... no ObamaCare ... no union payoff's ... no bribes paid to city hall ... damn criminals!
Unreal. I understand that door to door soliciting can be annoying but not excusing a pair of enterprising young men that would’ve likely been overwhelmed with work is just sad. Common sense would dictate allowing the homeowner to make the decision on whether to hire them or not. I can’t remember the last time any teen ager came by my house offering to mow, rake or empty gutters. Most are too lazy.
The Statists “War on Kids” rages on. Those who make it through the government/media promotion of abortion are subjected to these government restrictions on their freedom to earn spending money from lemonade stands in the summer and snow shoveling in the winter. “Land of the free,” has morphed into “Land of the Freebie.”
Sure but cross the border illegally, use some identity fraud...no problem!
We’ve traded in the constitution for a 10 million page home owners association rule book enforced by SWAT teams and property seizure distinct attorneys.
The last time this story was posted we had a lot of Nanny State Freepers that defended the police action.
Lets see if it happens again.
Some paranoid person saw two boys crossing a yard and thought to call the police. My mother does this all the time if she sees someone cutting across a yard. She lives in a town with 0% crime but it doesn’t stop her from being alert!
Kudos to these guys! Yes, door-to-door solicitors are annoying but I would gladly use their service if warranted during a major snowstorm. I have a sticker on my door I received from my city stating “No Solicitors”. That keeps them away. If there aren’t stickers, they’ll ring every time. Curiously, the only ones who don’t respect the “No Soliciting” sticker are the religious ones.
gotta save these jobs for the illgals....we americans aren’t allowed to work
Would the same statutes apply if they had requested donations for snow removal ? Or if they had promoted their plan on Facebook?
Stupid kids. They need to be down at the local welfare office applying for aid or casing houses to rob for drug money.
What’s this “working” BS? That’s against the law.
What a sorry state when two enterprising teenagers can’t drop flyers off for snow shoveling.
We get inundated with commercial messages all the time. How about banning key word and profile advertisements. Or stop the tricksters playing legal semantics with the cold calls.
Utter govt regulation BS—— as kids up north we would do the same thing. Go door to door and ask if they want to be shoveled. If yes you made a couple of bucks and the neighbor got a service performed. Govt regs/taxes/fees? — never ever crossed the minds. Tyrants.....
Three days after the blizzard of ‘78, two boys knocked on the upstairs window of our house in Newport, RI, and told my mom, “For $20, we’ll dig down to your front door, Miss!” She handed them the $20 out the window. We’d been sitting in the kitchen with the oven on for heat, playing Monopoly, for three days.
While in this case the person complaining seems to have been a resident of the neighborhood who spotted the youngsters going door-to-door with leaflets, the complaint might just as well have come from someone who viewed them as competitors. I live in snow country, and up here, in towns and cities, their are invariably some businesses which view this type of work as their turf.
The city or town plows the road, but the homeowner usually is responsible for clearing the drive and sidewalks. The businesses who contract to do this, often as an adjunct to the landscaping and lawn maintenance work they do in the summer, are seen all over town early in the morning hustling around town with trailers behind pickups or SUVs, usually with a plow mounted in front and loaded with snow blowers and sometimes even little bobcat-like dozers, which they fire up to get the job done in minutes. A single operator might be able to do thrifty or forty homes, doctors’ offices, gas stations, etc. in a mornings work. On a day of a big storm these guys will often have to hit the property two or more times as the storm continues. While some property owners negotiate a monthly or winter-season fee, most seem to get $50 to $100 a hit or more, depending on the size of the property.
That might seem steep to some folks, but as Kerry found out recently, you might get hit with a $2-300 fine for not clearing your walk.
Two kids with snow shovels might not seem like much of a threat to these operators, but if they talk eight or ten homeowners into letting them do the job, that could mean quite a bit of lost business to folks who think it’s rightfully theirs.
My sympathy is with the kids, though. I would advise them to print up a little postcard with their offer of services and mail it predicted first class to occupants of forty or fifty homes in the neighborhood, assuming they want to do the work regularly. Their problem, I think, will be: they can only do the work on weekends. I expect school hours would make it impractical to try this on weekdays.
If Indiana Had such a law when I was growing up I must be a wanted felon.
All such laws regarding “soliciting” should be scraped in their present form.
The only law against soliciting or to “control” it needs no fees or registration, it only needs to say that soliciting cannot be done at any residence or business that has a clearly posted statement near the entrance that says: “No Soliciting”. Such a law only demands our choice to not be solicited is respected. The rest of us are free to respond to solicitors, on a case-by-case basis, as we chose.
I remembered when I had 9 clients who I sholved snow and mowed lawns for. I think I was about 8 when I started with my brothers.
Excellent point!!!! unfortunately people are fleeing NJ and bringing their trashy ideas about everything with them....Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas need to be on alert!