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NJ teens find out it's illegal to offer to shovel neighbors' driveways during blizzard
Syracuse Post-Standard ^ | January 29, 2015 | Ben Axelson

Posted on 02/01/2015 6:57:48 AM PST by Zakeet

Two New Jersey teens got a lesson in government regulations this week then they decided to go door to door offering snow shoveling services ahead of the Blizzard of 2015.

The blizzard ended up being a bit underwhelming in N.J., but forecasts ahead of time predicted it would be a whopper. High school seniors Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18, decided to go door to door Monday evening handing out flyers offering snow shoveling services for the next morning, NJ.com reported.

Unfortunately they didn't know about their town's ordinance related to soliciting, which prohibits people from selling services door-to-door in Bound Brook without a $450 permit.

(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: economy; ericschnepf; labor; mattmolinari; newjersey; regulations
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To: Zakeet

I remembered when I had 9 clients who I sholved snow and mowed lawns for. I think I was about 8 when I started with my brothers.


41 posted on 02/01/2015 9:31:14 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Farmer Dean
I was 11 when I picked tobacco. Hard work but it was worth it. Shade tobacco (Connecticut Valley) is tiresome work, but at the end of the day, we swam in the pond to cool off.

I bet an 11 year old COULDN'T pick the evil plant today.

42 posted on 02/01/2015 9:37:52 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: albie

Maybe they don’t come by anymore because it’s against the law.


43 posted on 02/01/2015 9:59:53 AM PST by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I don’t think the Mexicans get many takers here because the property lots are small enough to do it yourself and it isn’t a wealthy neighborhood.

I do it the way they’ve done it for centuries; with shovels and the shovelers birthed by my wife!


44 posted on 02/01/2015 10:23:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Zakeet

Excellent point!!!! unfortunately people are fleeing NJ and bringing their trashy ideas about everything with them....Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas need to be on alert!


45 posted on 02/01/2015 10:45:09 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: P-Marlowe

RULE #1....for a task such as this utilize a verbal agreement with the home owner...if any one asks “you are related” RULE #2 CASH ONLY...its nobody’s business what you made except you and your customer. I have been self-employed for a span of 35 years and I knew exactly how to side-step all of the garbage they are talking about. It is beneficial to both the homeowner AND myself in a monetary sense...the kids hopefully learned not to put something like this on paper.


46 posted on 02/01/2015 11:05:01 AM PST by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: albie

In reality, these ambitious, hard-working teens just got a lesson in union politics.

Better to let the driveways remain hazardous and the union workers comfortably asleep than to have non-union teens show them up by doing the job they’re paid for not doing. And guess who has the mayor, city council, police chief, and police union on their side?


47 posted on 02/01/2015 11:58:53 AM PST by DPMD
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To: P-Marlowe

RULE #1....for a task such as this utilize a verbal agreement with the home owner...if any one asks “you are related” RULE #2 CASH ONLY...its nobody’s business what you made except you and your customer. I have been self-employed for a span of 35 years and I knew exactly how to side-step all of the garbage they are talking about. It is beneficial to both the homeowner AND myself in a monetary sense...the kids hopefully learned not to put something like this on paper.


48 posted on 02/01/2015 12:04:03 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: P-Marlowe

We just paid the 16 year old boy down the block $30 and a mug of hot chocolate to do our driveway. Two summers ago he restored an old Craftsman riding mower with parts he found on eBay and hung a plow off the front.

He even has a light bar on it for safety. Sharp kid.

I hear him out there doing some of the neighbors as I type this. He’s a hard working young man and he’s raking in cash today. He even added a cup holder to his creation. LOL. We threw the travel mug in as part of the deal. Considering we are looking at a foot or more of snow today I’ve got his number programmed in the phone. He will probably get a call around 7 this evening once this thing calms down.

Money well spent as far as we are concerned.

L


49 posted on 02/01/2015 12:10:55 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Love it. He sounds like a great kid.


50 posted on 02/01/2015 12:14:44 PM PST by tioga
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To: tioga

He must have done a dozen driveways already. We paid him to do one of our neighbors as well. They’re both working today and coming home to a foot of snow on the driveway would really suck.

I’ll bet the kid will make well over $300 in cash today. Righteous bucks for a 16 year old.

L


51 posted on 02/01/2015 12:19:57 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

Around here the men all have snowblowers and run around doing each other’s driveways. They get the elderly, the widows and just about anyone’s drive they can. The kids are too lazy to get out and hussle.


52 posted on 02/01/2015 12:43:45 PM PST by tioga
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To: samtheman

Behold the rise of “The Soccer Moms’’.


53 posted on 02/01/2015 1:22:13 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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To: ExCTCitizen

A buddy and I had three to four people we did the same for, mowed and shoveled. What a great way to make a few bucks. One old lady would go out of town a few times a year and she paid us to look in on her house and water her two plants.

I recall she had booze up on the same shelf as cleaning chemicals in her hallway. And all sorts of pills from different doctors: “take two in the morning” right next to the “take one at night”. Figured they were uppers and downers, but who knows.

Never crossed our minds to drink any of her booze or steal her drugs.

We lived down the street from the high school. Growing up, every graduation night the streets would be packed for parking. We would go around and ask our neighbors if we could use their driveways to park cars. We’d charge $5 a car and fill up the driveways.

I remember one time my sister had parked out on the street and then left for a date. A car came in, pulled into the open spot on the street, and gave us $20 for “holding his place open”!


54 posted on 02/01/2015 1:40:42 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: Lurker
Righteous bucks for a 16 year old.

Until the Nanny State mob catches up to him.

55 posted on 02/01/2015 1:42:39 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: P-Marlowe

“Until the Nanny State mob catches up to him.”

We have his back. One of the driveways he does belongs to the Sgt. of the patrol officers of our PD. Any local busybody who gets in the face of our young entrepreneur is going to be buried in citations of one kind of another.

Sometimes small suburban communities work things out.

L


56 posted on 02/01/2015 5:42:37 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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