Posted on 11/16/2010 5:10:33 PM PST by WebFocus
This is the police. Step away from the cupcakes!
A half-baked town-board member called the cops on a pair of pint-size entrepreneurs for selling their cookies and cupcakes in a Westchester park without a permit.
"A lot of people go to eat lunch in the park," one of the bummed-out baker boys, Andrew DeMarchis (pictured), 13, of Chappaqua, told The Post yesterday.
"So everybody bought dessert from us. When the cop first pulled up, I didn't know he was there for us. Then he walked up to us. I didn't know we needed a permit. I was more shocked than scared."
Andrew said he called his mother, Suzanne, who had helped make the duo's delicious oatmeal and chocolate-chip cookies on a stick.
"The police officer was extremely pleasant. He said he was sorry to have to do this but that he was following up on a report filed over the phone by a town-board member," Mrs. DeMarchis told The Journal News.
Andrew's pal, Kevin Graff, 13, "was so upset he was crying all the whole way home," she said. "He was worried if he was going to get arrested or have a criminal record."
New Castle board member Michael Wolfensohn -- who had sicced the cops on the boys last month -- refused to comment to The Post yesterday when reached at his home.
A town official said Wolfensohn has received harassing e-mails and phone calls since residents learned of his cupcake stance.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“Two things: 1) Michael Wolfensohn must be a Democrat. 2) His actions have just created two young conservative, small-government advocates.”
Don’t be so sure about that. It appears all are Jewish. They seem to be addicted to the Democrat Party.
Indeed. Another example of dimocrats screwing small business owners
mbwolf@town.new-castle.ny.us
Have at him.
Serves him right.
You do need to apply for a business license.
Its the law in most of the country.
RE: Its the law in most of the country.
I know it’s the law, but it begs the question — why should it be a law?
I want to hold a charity bake sale and I have to pay to apply for a business license? Why ?
RE: Someone post his email address. I would like to send him a piece of my mind.
mbwolf@town.new-castle.ny.us
Go get him.
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