[Graybeard58]

While the young man's enterprise is admirable, what he did was illegal. He could work within the law, work to change the law or do business where they don't have a "zoning and planning commission"

Or whine when he gets caught. (flame suit on)

[4yearlurker]

Take your corn and pumpkins to a flea market of farmers market sale. You’ll sell a boat load! I see it all the time here in SW Pennsylvania.

[the invisib1e hand]

Farmers don't have time to screw around with small-town, stupid politics,"

Nobody does. Buts you still hasta do whats the man says.

[JimSEA]

The government must control everything!!!

Are your undies flame retardant?? See, that was not so bad.

[gusopol3]

said Horse, who spent his four years at Housatonic Valley ..... Horse is saving his profits, partly to go to college. On top of that, Hoose and his father, Tim Hoose...

Hoose from Hooseatonic or Horse from Horseatonic?

[SAJ]

Or, if he had any imagination, black-mkt the corn door to door.

Zoning and Planning Commissions? Don't get me started.

[purpleraine]

yeah! 5-10 in the state prison ought to teach this guy to respect the law.

[Southack]

The government nannies would have left the kid alone if he’d scrawled “organic” on his “corn for sale” sign.

[rawhide]

You forgot the sarcasm tag on the end of your post. Some people might take you seriously.

[VaBthang4]

"What are we going to do with it?"

Uh move outside of town limits and deduct the fuel expenses from your bottomline.

Life kid, stop bitching get used to it.

[BGHater]

“zoning and planning commission”

Uh. That one could be a 100 thread starter. As they say, Rights, including property rights are not unlimited.

[americanophile]

This is ridiculous. I'll bet if I spent 5 minutes in that town I could find some other things that the zoning and planning commission could do with its time rather than try to prevent a kid from selling corn he grew to go to college. How pathetically unAmerican. We used to prize initiative, now we punish it at every turn.

[autumnraine]

“Horse is saving his profits, partly to go to college.”

What happened to proof readers!?!

At least this error was funny.

[autumnraine]

Donate it to a homeless shelter and get a tax credit?

[hinckley buzzard]

True. This kind of chickensh*t gubbermint is eroding the American character and I hate it. But to be realistic, he may as well learn the ropes now, he'll be dealing with them the rest of his life, and he'll be ready to go next year.

[hinckley buzzard]

True. This kind of chickensh*t gubbermint is eroding the American character and I hate it. But to be realistic, he may as well learn the ropes now, he'll be dealing with them the rest of his life, and he'll be ready to go next year.

[kickonly88]

He just forgot to take the first 4 or 5 dozen ears to the zoning commission.If it works in Chicagolike that, I’m sure it would work there.

[Gabz]

Gardening Ping?

Opinions here folks.

Because I live in an unicorporated area of my county and I grow or make the stuff I’m selling myself the County does not require anything from me and I am free to put up a stand, signs, whatever.

But that is not always true in some of the incorporated towns in the County.

[guitarplayer1953]

I myself would like to know the history of this piece of land was it at one time outside the township and in the county? The reason I ask this is a friend of mine was living outside of a small town in the county and lived accordingly then the town annex them into the city and came out to their property and began to tell what they needed to do to their home and property that was not in compliance with city ordinances.

They ended up selling their home and property.

[tubebender]

Planning commissions are just a notch below Law Enforcement Oversight committees on my list of socialist organizations...

[Joan Kerrey]

the letter said, and the signs on the road were prohibited by town ordinance. They had to stop selling corn by July 23.
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Give free corn to the town’s leaders. Get it on tape as they accept your gift. When the town comes after you make a claim that the town’s leaders were extorting you by demanding more corn and when you refused they wrote their letter demanding you stop selling. You can now document bribery and the extortion charge would probably stick in a farming community. They’d probably come around if you work it correctly.