GOVERNMENT THUGS REQUIRE PERMIT FOR KIDS TO SHOVEL SNOW

More laws. More regulations. More licenses. More permits. More taxes. More surveillance. More cameras. More government bureaucrats. More police. More military equipment. More tyranny. This is no different than how the English treated the colonists in the 1700’s. At what point do enough people say enough is enough?

Hat tip Boston Bob

Bound Brook cops stop teens seeking snow shoveling work

School was closed for the blizzard that wasn’t, but there was still enough snow on the ground that two Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School seniors thought they could make a few extra bucks.

In the process, Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18, also learned a valuable lesson about one of the costs of doing business: government regulations.

The two friends were canvasing a neighborhood near this borough’s border with Bridgewater early Monday evening, handing out fliers promoting their service, when they were pulled over by police and told to stop.

The story was shared on a popular Bound Brook Facebook group by a resident who saw Schnepf being questioned by police after coming to his door.

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“Are you kidding me? Our generation does nothing but complain about his generation being lazy and not working for their money,” he wrote on Bound Brook NJ Events‘ page. “Here’s a couple kids who take the time to print up flyers, walk door to door in the snow, and then shovel snow for some spending money. And someone calls the cops and they’re told to stop?”

Members of the group responded with support for the young entrepreneurs.

Bound Brook, like many municipalities in the state and country, has a law against unlicensed solicitors and peddlers.

Despite the rule, however, Police Chief Michael Jannone said the two young businessmen were not arrested or issued a ticket, and that the police’s concern was about them being outside during dangerous conditions, not that they were unlicensed.

“We don’t make the laws but we have to uphold them,” he said Tuesday after reading some of the online comments about the incident. “This was a state of emergency. Nobody was supposed to be out on the road.”

The teens took the incident in stride and said that police told them that they only needed permission to go door to door, but were still allowed to shovel walkways if residents called them.

“The cops were nice about it. They weren’t jerks. They were trying to make sure everything is OK,” Molinari said Tuesday.

In this borough, anyone selling goods and services door to door must apply for a license that can cost as much as $450 for permission that is valid for only 180 days. Nonprofits are exempt from the fee but must still apply for a permit.

Similar bans around the country have put the kibosh on other capitalist rites of passage, such as lemonade stands and selling Girl Scouts cookies.

Such laws have been challenged elsewhere on the grounds that they violate the First Amendment right to free speech. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, for example, is suing New Brunswick over a similar law that prohibits panhandling and begging.

The Bound Brook ordinance does not apply to people going door to door for political reasons or to volunteer firefighters or real estate and insurance salesmen licensed by the state.

Jannone said an officer was dispatched to the street because a resident called to report a “suspicious person” with curly blond hair and a hoodie who was walking through yards.

A responding officer told the young men that it wasn’t safe to be out and to come back during the day.

Jannone said his department has no interest in cracking down on kids who want to shovel sidewalks or driveways. The law was made for transient scam artists who prey on the vulnerable, he said.

“The spirit of the ordinance is to protect residents from gypsy activity. People will solicit door to door and target the elderly and get into their house,” he said.

Janonne said the fliers that the two young men were handing out had their first names and cell phone numbers.

“People doing something illegal probably won’t extend this much identifying information,” he said.

The pair managed to get five jobs by early Tuesday afternoon, earning between $25 to $40 a house.

“We don’t really bargain,” Schnepf said. “We help some people out and get whatever they’re willing to pay.”

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Axel
Axel

It is just ironic that alot of this shit happens in the birthplace of American Liberty–the original thirteen colonies.

Gayle
Gayle

I’m about fed up with this safety shit. God help us. TPTB are using this kind of crap to keep a demasculized (is that a word?) population in a constant state of fear so they can use any excuse to extend their tyranny over us. We WILL get used to being told what to do or there will be hell to pay. I’m waiting for the pronouncement identifying when it is safe for me to pee. The latest blizzard episode is a fine example. For God’s sake, people who live in the NE have been dealing with blizzards since day one. Even pea brains prefer staying in to going out and driving around when the wind is blowing 50 mph and heavy snow is falling. I’m pretty sure even my special ed kids could figure I out.

When my kids were teenagers we lived in the mountains and one year we got about 6-8 feet of snow in a week. People were paying the kids $75 an hour to shovel snow off their roofs, they were so fearful of collapse. My son and his sister both earned a tidy sum from a few hours work, and miraculously they survived this life-threatening enterprise.

Now that I have vented, I hope you all stay safe today as your owners look out for your well-being.

Monger
Monger

“that the police’s concern was about them being outside during dangerous conditions”
So fn what,? I recall my youth in the Midwest during the blizzard of 79, 3 days of 50-80 below wind chills and 4 feet of snow, it was an adventure at 17 to be out in it. piss the fok off nanny state.

Stephanie Shepard

What, ya have to be apart of the union now to shovel your neighbor’s drive way?

Lysander
Lysander

In my teens, I made good money shoveling snow and detailing cars. But that was in the late 60’s and early 70’s when kids were their parent’s children and not wards of the state.

This place we live in (I can’t call it “our country” or our “nation” anymore) has turned into Bizarro World…you know, the planet from the early Superman comics where everything was the exact opposite of rational and sane.

From Wikipedia:

“In the Bizarro world of “Htrae” (“Earth” spelled backwards), society is ruled by the Bizarro Code which states “Us do opposite of all Earthly things! Us hate beauty! Us love ugliness! Is big crime to make anything perfect on Bizarro World!” In one episode, for example, a salesman is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: “Guaranteed to lose money for you”. Later, the mayor appoints Bizarro No. 1 to investigate a crime, “Because you are stupider than the entire Bizarro police force put together”. This is intended and taken as a great compliment.”

There’s my new name for the FUSA…Bizarroland

Let me be clear
Let me be clear

Gayle says: demasculized (is that a word?)

emasculated

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

@Steph: Any progress on the Alero?

Gayle
Gayle

Let me be clear

Thank you. I knew it wasn’t quite right.

Let me be clear
Let me be clear

Westcoaster says: @Steph: Any progress on the Alero?

Neal Wiesenberger said plant things according to their mature size, otherwise, if you plant wrong, you will have a hard time correcting the mistake because by then you will have a relationship with a plant. All that to say: she has invested emotions in that car that she is justifying with economics, until she opens her eyes to the fact it is nickel and dimeing her to death.

Mark
Mark

Great opening commentary.

This is exactly what will happen as government refuses to cut spending especially on itself and chooses to hunt down taxes anyway it can.

Bravo , the real reason we became a nation and will be the reason as we split as a nation.

Several nations will form with in the US to break away from the Federal Government. Thank god for the second amendment.

Stucky

Bound Brook cops are so bad …. that’s where Chatham copfuks go for blow jobs.

We go to Bound Brook every couple weeks … they have an indoor farmer’s market and a mighty fine Polish meat market.

Bound Brook is notorious for speed traps … one the Top 10 worst cities in NJ according to an article in the Star Ledger a few years ago. There’s a section in town where the speed limit drops from 45mph to 25mph … the copfuks hide in a church parking lot …. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve gotten millions of dollars over the years from just that one spot. I go 23mph the whole length, pissing off a shitload of other drivers in the process … and the ungrateful bastards don’t even realize I probably saved them a shitload of money.

So, this story does not surprise me. Fucken Bound Brook cops eat shit!!!

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I like “demasculated”. I’ll try to remember it. Leaving aside some probably arcane etymology, it makes more sense than emasculated. Of course, we also need to use “masculated” – as in “Michelle is masculated”.

TE
TE

So many freaking laws, shutdowns, stoppages, all for our safety.

My arse.

Wasn’t one of our original propositions that man has a right to walk about unmolested from the fuzz unless obviously infringing on another citizens rights?

So it sounds like the vast majority of citizens are quite happy to label themselves as “too dumb” to avoid scam artists that show up on your door?

Why don’t we just enact laws making it illegal to open your door to anyone except a government bureaucrat or family member with ID? Now THAT would “keep us safe.”

Probably throw in a law about letting kids play in the sunshine is equivalent to killing them too.

I so hate sheep and the evil that has risen up to lead them.

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