not the cops fault obviously, it’s the local law makers who made that dumb law.
Could be a good opportunity for them to learn the value of Free Market economics and the importance of their voting in the future for fiscally conservative candidates.
We have that in my city. There are things I like about it, like no strangers knocking at the door. The Jehovah Witnesses ignore it.
No good deed goes unpunished.
You can’t even shovel snow for a few bucks anymore? What’s next? Having to get a permit for a lemonade stand? Oh wait..
I’m not sure I can decide what is more restrictive? That is, the fact the police were involved in some kids offering shoveling for $ or the police department backtracking and saying it was “an emergency” and the kids weren’t allowed out. Out of their homes and in their neighborhood?
Must not have been any dogs to shoot that day.
I wonder who ratted on them
Would they have been shut down if they had volunteered to shovel the snow for free and then accepted tips?
you mean to tell me that if you want to help an elderly neighbor it will cost the snow shoveler money to help others out. Where is this happening. I live in a snowbelt area og Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. I have beeen helping my elderly neighbors for years at no cost. One neighbor is just sick with the cost of her medications, she wants to contribute to the cost of snow removal, but instead she has to pay her for her medications. I just say that is okay. But it is getting expensive to do the snow removal too. The equipment does not come cheap - a zero turn with a snowblower attachment is not a cheap machine. A salt spreader is not cheap either. I may just stop helping others soon as it is costing money too.
They’re supposed to be good little drones, sitting at home getting high and playing video games.
The greedy, leftwing DemocRAT politicians want their cut. This is a damn shame. We really need to bring back tarring and feathering to America. Since elections do have consequences, we may also want to consider doing away with them.
So the neighbors will just have to hire a permitted landscaping company if they want someone to shovel their snow. Of course, the landscaping company will be staffed with illegal immigrants, but hey, at least they will have a permit and won’t be breaking the law. The kids are forced to sit on their asses at home watching TV or playing X Box while illegals do the work. This country is so screwed it isn’t funny.
Also, since the economy turned south a few years ago, we've gotten more door to door salesman than at any other time in the nearly four decades we've lived in this neighborhood. It's a nuisance and many other neighbors and I do call the police on them and the cops scare them out of town, because they never have a permit.
In our town, it's legal to leave a flyer in the doors with your name and number. Leaflet people's homes the day before a storm and the people will call.
The kids were "soliciting."
If instead, they were just walking down the street and a neighbor called out and said, "Hey, kid! How'd you like to earn a few dollars by shoveling the snow off my property?" then they'd be alright because it's all done privately on private property.
The cops would have no right to interfere with what a homeowner does on his own property at his initiation.
It's that the kids initiated the transaction by seeking it out. Next time, word of mouth would be the way to go.
-PJ
I hate Nazis...
And this is as perfect an example of Socialism as it gets.
Anything not mandatory is forbidden. For the greater good.
Ok, everybody into the cattle cars, SCHNELL!
Every day I thank God I live in GA. :-)
In case anyone is curious this occurred in Bridgewater New Jersey.
I just want to know what potential customer RATTED them out to the regulation police?