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Teen forced to close fair booth, couldn't afford $5,000 for liability insurance
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| August 03, 2005
Posted on 08/08/2005 6:19:03 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat
Various costs can eat up your business before you make that first sale. And the government doesn't make easier for small businesspeople to thrive in our economy due to burdensome and costly regulations.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:22:04 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: robowombat; goldstategop
It's unfortunate that government regulations and trail lawyers hassled this young entrepreneur's efforts. But in this particular case the publicity generated will likely make up for any lost time at this fair.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:25:18 AM PDT
by
Coop
(www.heroesandtraitors.org)
To: goldstategop
My husband & I are self-employed, our business is our only source of income. We are trying to sell it now, because insurance & taxes eat up every bit of profit we make. Every time we make a little extra money, the city comes up with another "fee" to charge us & our insurance company keeps raising rates every year. Not to mention how are utility costs are soaring.
We give up.
To: robowombat
Well thank the nice lawyers. Some stupid kid mighta sucked the marshmallow back through the pipe and choked on it. Then his parents would have sued the city (probably not much to be gained from suing the kid).
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:29:38 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
To: robowombat
Mike Dyer, director of the city-owned Bass Park, where the fair is held, said Tuesday that the shooters were not on the city's "do not insure" list, so he sent it to the city's insurer for approval. Marshmellow Shooters! Of course these must be bad, they shoot!
Well, folks, the lawyers and busy-body do-gooders screw up another kid's life.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:30:38 AM PDT
by
citizen
(History shows Muslims are Jihadists....The real radical Muslims are the live-and-let-live moderates.)
To: goldstategop
you still haven't got that Denny Crane quote right:
"(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".) "
It's a great quote- So get the original text, get it right, and do not post hundreds of variations of it. A quote (in quotation marks) is supposed to be the EXACT WORDING.
And if I remember the quote correctly it said looking for TRUTH (not answers)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:31:20 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: alicewonders
Yep. Small business are the key to keeping America economically vibrant. Politicians have no idea what it takes to run one. If they did, they'd be more careful about what they pile upon them. The demagogues think people making $100,000 a year are rich. After various costs, insurance, taxes, etc. the true figure is more like $40,000. Hardly millionaires. Its government that stands in the way of the American Dream these days.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:31:32 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: robowombat; Foxfire4
This is weird. My wife and I have been selling handmade beaded jewelry at craft shows and fairs for six years now (though never at a state fair), and we've NEVER had to pay for insurance. The worst we've had to do is pay for local jurisdiction business licenses, in addition to the booth fee for the space itself (and remitting local/state sales taxes, of course). And we've been around several people selling those marshmallow blowguns at various shows, they're popular items with kids, cheap in materials and easy to make so they're profitable.
Is this a Maine thing, or just particular to this fair perhaps, I wonder.
}:-)4
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:31:42 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Newsflash: It's the South. In the summer. IT GETS HOT. DEAL WITH IT.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
there is something just plain wrong about a small business making less than $5000 being required to insure for $5000
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:32:29 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
To: robowombat
Unfortunately, there are people that probably would shoot themselves in the eye, then sue everyone involved...
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:32:56 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Mr. K
I posted just the quote I heard. I haven't posted a lot of variations on it. When it comes to lawyers, I guess you heard it different - perhaps Danny Crane CAN tell you what he really said. Now "lock and load!" ;-)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:35:02 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
You got that right. Our standard of living keeps slipping every year, we're tired. Lately, I've been having fantasies of getting a "real" job, with "real" benefits & "real" hours.
It was good while it lasted.
To: stuartcr
Companies have to put warning labels on every product just ward off stupid numbskulls who might misuse it. It doesn't matter the product is meant ONLY for the intended use for which it might be sold. Some clever trial lawyer will try to convince the jury the company should still pay for your stupidity.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:37:27 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: robowombat
I sell short term even insurance here in Georgia. Instead of getting an annual policy that costs ALOT, he should look into short term trade event coverage. $1200 max.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:37:27 AM PDT
by
sandbar
To: goldstategop
That's probably the reasoning behind requiring the insurance.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:39:32 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: citizen
>Well, folks, the lawyers and busy-body do-gooders screw up another kid's life.<
I doubt the Kid's life is is screwed up by this.The problem is he put the fair and by exension the city on the hook for the potential liability because he had no insurance.He can sell them from his front yard,door to door or mail order without insurance.The problem comes when someone with deeper pockets gets involved.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:40:00 AM PDT
by
Blessed
To: sandbar
Good idea. On an off-topic subject, I should mention that after doing Internet comparisons with a couple of insurance companies, I got quoted from $690 to $1400 on my car insurance. I own a VW New Beetle that's six years old and I am a driver insurance companies should be banging the doors down for. I have no traffic tickets, no DWIs, no DUI's and no accidents. What gives? You can have a perfect record and good insurance is still hard to obtain at a reasonable price. I feel for the kid.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:43:41 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Blessed
I don't blame the city. We do live in a litigious society. But that makes us all poorer in the end.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:45:03 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: robowombat
We have half a dozen of these things around the house, that my husband and sons have made. The real danger is that one of the kids will whomp the other upside the head with the blowgun, after he runs out of marshmallows.
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posted on
08/08/2005 6:46:40 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Liberals: Too stupid to realize Dick Cheney is the real Dark Lord.)
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