I'd agree with you if his cart would have been situated on public property downtown. However, his cart would have been on private property.
When I bought my property in Texas, there were two restrictions. I could not operate a dump or a pig farm on my property. I knew that when I signed the papers.
So let’s say that I started breeding piglets and selling them for $30 each. Then, when the county tells me to stop (didn’t fine me, didn’t cite me, just politely tells me that I’m breaking the rules) I cry to the press and start gathering public support because I’m disabled and I’m special and this is the way I make my egg money...
I would never buy property in an HOA because I want autonomy. The private property owner *should* know the rules in the area where he bought the property.
Don’t like the rules? Vote, lobby, petition, etc.
But a family can’t waltz in, do whatever they want and expect special treatment because they’re disabled.
My son is a T-1 diabetic. Nobody’s fault. It’s an autoimmune disease.
He gets NO breaks. No free grants or college money, no help from the gov’t for his medical needs, nothing. And we raised him to not expect them. He can’t join the military (even though it’s his greatest dream and he has actually smoked the Seal challenge multiple times) and he’s had to learn how to deal with that. Fair or not, he’s not special and that restriction applies to him. I’ve encouraged him to lobby congress to change the rule, but not JUST for him.
This family was not cited or fined. They were just told that he had to move the cart. The city offered them multiple locations to operate the cart from and bent over backwards to help them do it right. These people aren’t arguing that the rules are stupid or the the private property owner has the right to invite them to operate a business on his property, they’re arguing that they should be the exception because the parents are disabled.
If my son tried that crap, I’d kick his butt. I’d tell him to start pushing his damn cart down the street a couple of blocks and that he’s better bone up on his salesmanship in order to deal with the competition.
Yes, the Law is an ass.
But don’t use your disability to try to take an advantage. EVERYBODY has a sob story.