Posted on 02/11/2015 10:46:28 AM PST by Kartographer
New Jersey teens, Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, were hoping to make a few bucks shoveling snow in their neighborhood.
But police ruined their plans when they told the teens they needed a permit to promote their services.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
The kids should have just said they work for good will but will gratefully accept college fund donations.
Shovel snow, go to jail?
GET A LIFE, COPS.
Good to see that New Joisey has no real crime problems and must go after illegal teen snow shovelers...............
“GET A LIFE, COPS.”
For God’s sake the cops are being paid to enforce the laws on the books.
The lawmakers are at fault on this one,they wrote the stupid law.
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The more old people they can kill off with heart attacks from shoveling snow takes them that much closer to reducing social security and medicare expenditures and boosts the death toll on climate change PR campaign.
An easy bust.The cops probably burned half their shift harassing the kids.
Too bad those young men don’t live near me, or I’d hire them. Tough to find any youngsters who would shovel snow. Since I’ve lived in my house, I had only one little kid come to the door asking if he could shovel my walk and driveway. He was so small the shovel was bigger than he was. But he made the effort and I rewarded him for it. Many teens don’t want to make the effort.
They were taking union jobs.
Since the Mafia and all the gangbangers left the state,the cops all stand around with their hands in their pockets-nothing to do.
If the cops enforced EVERY law on the books, you couldn’t leave your house without being detained.
Love to see who these two officers are related too and if and how they benefit.
Yes I am that cynical...
“when Hell freezes over”... but then it is New Jersey and it is covered with snow...
Safer than going after the real crooks and it doesn’t hurt the cash flow.
So I guess there really aren’t any shovel-ready jobs.
Same law in my NJ town. It’s not on shoveling - the law prohibits ANYONE from soliciting ANYTHING door to door without a permit. It’s meant to reduce scammers, etc.
The sad thing here is - someone likely called the Police on the kids. I doubt a cop in Bound Brook (not far from me) would even realize what was happening unless they were tipped off by a cantankerous resident.
Headline writers screw with us. They weren’t stopped for shoveling, but for not having a permit for door to door soliciting.
Now, lets get upset for the real reasons: stupid law, zero tolerance, inability of police to think for themselves or willingness to think for themselves, the person who told on the kids.
When they arrest them, they should force them to undergo a urine test for drugs.
Then, when we have drug testing for welfare recipients, we can compare the stats for drug use among the welfare population with those for the snow-shoveling population.
I would imagine the comparison would be enlightening.
Police have discretion. You don't think police stop people every time they see someone jaywalking or not using a turn signal, do you?
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