The sad thing is, the kid and his family sound fully willing to help themselves out, but a dickweed mayor and city council are preventing them from doing so.
My frustration with this story is that the city was willing to work with them. There were many other areas where the boy could put his cart, but his parents wouldn’t hear of it. They wanted the cart where *they* wanted the cart.
One of their reasons? “It makes good business sense.” They wanted to put the cart where there was no competition!
Now the story paints the city as if they were the bad guys when this family flatly refused to work within the same rules that every other vender works with. As soon as they heard that they couldn’t have it their way, they whined to the press, gave up and made the boy sell the cart.
IMHO, these people are acting like spoiled brats and milking the sympathy factor for all it’s worth.