Posted on 11/02/2009 11:26:58 AM PST by BGHater
NJ police state ping!
The cop was a mentally challenged jerk. Anyone who would make this big an issue out of an 80 year old lady having a yard sale (and why in the hell should anyone need a permit to do so?) has big time anger and control issues. Another bully in uniform.
We don’t need permits here but if you have a yard sale too often, it can bring the attention of law enforcement.
People with personalities like these seem to be attracted to power.
The small town where I live in Tennessee, put in the same thing. Limit of 2 garage sales per year. You have to get a permit to put up signs and you have to buy your signs from the city.
Dad bought the permits, and had a sale. And dang it if the city didn’t misfile the paperwork and pulled up his signs anyway. They offered him two free signs after the garage sale was a bust.
We got 3/5’ths of the city council thrown out at the last election and the garage sale law was rescinded.
I dare say she’ll be happier (and freer) in Tennessee.
How is New Jersey still part of this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?
Our city is the same - you have to have a permit and only a limited number of yard sales per address per year.
I’ve never seen any cops checking for permits.
Most people to get around the “numbers” issue go in with neighbors.
Only big problem is people who don’t take down their signs they stapled to every pole in the area.
The trouble with idiot rules is they throw out common sense. There is a big difference between someone hosting Pampered Chef parties twice a month, an 80 year old lady trying to sell household goods so she can move and someone selling drugs or prostitution out of their home. But these rules make no distinction.
The Corize Death Panel said “NO!”
This happened in New Jersey?
Why are there palm trees in the photo?
***why in the hell should anyone need a permit..?**
Try doing anything and you realize you have to follow some damn formula or you need some sort of permission to breathe.
i.e. HOV lanes (gotta have an extra person in the car)
Recycling bins - don’t put stuff in that don’t belong.
Buying cigarettes - show I.D.
And don’t get me started on *planned communities* where you are not allowed to paint your house, have a clothes line, have a party, burn leaves, run the mower off hours, post for sale signs, leave garage door open, park on the road, erect a gym for the kids. etc., etc.,
I truly believe that those planned, age-segregated communities were an experiment in community control....works nicely with preparation for re-education camps and communist gulags.
Lol. Posters fault.
Florida.
My fault. Can you change from NJ to Florida.
Global warming, I thought palm trees in NJ were common.
I agree. That’s why I hate all these ‘Zero Tolerance’ Policies. It promotes a zero tolerance for common sense. We see it over and over again.
short sleeve shirt and palm trees. something is odd.
this happened in florida, not new jersey.
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