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I'd say flyers at each house is going too far unless it's a free service. Going door to door ringing bells of those houses not yet shoveled would be better. Just a friendly neighbor offering right?
Would it be illegal to put a flyer in everyone's mailbox? Is that still door to door soliciting? Or illegal use of mailboxes or anything?
Section 1725 of Title 18 of the United States Code prohibits it ... but all the offender will get (if a complaint is made) is a phone call asking to knock it off.
So kids have to go thru permit application to mow grass now. Sad. Government at work doing what it does best. Create red tape.
Who do you think lobbied the government to pass a law requiring a permit? The business community did. The more barriers to entry, the easier it is to avoid having to compete.
I can see why they have certain ordinances like this, and don't blame them for enforcing them. Every winter we get some weirdos, with out shovels, coming to our door looking to shovel our drive way. I would be more upset with the person(s) calling and complaining. I highly doubt two kids are going to steal to much business. The people who already paid for snowplowing aren't going to pay for more snow removal, and the people are doing it themselves more than likely would never hire any of these snowplow guys to begin with.
You should get all the facts before posting. The kids were out at night, when there was a state of emergency. No one was supposed to be outside. A neighbor called and reported a "suspicious" person walking across their yard, so that was the reason the cops showed up in the first place. They asked the kids why they were out, and after they told them, the cops informed them that solicitations of that nature were against the local ordinance unless they obtained a permit. This ordinance was put in place to prevent those door-to-door scams on the elderly. The residents there are quite in favor of it. That said, the cops told the kids to come back during the daytime, the next day. And the boys did, and they got 5 shoveling jobs. End of story.
And it wasn't that they weren't allowed to do work for the people, they just weren't allowed to go door to door but could do the work of shoveling snow. But as you said, the cops gave the boys permission to come back in the daytime and to seek work.
It's amazing how many people here are passing judgments and making political statements who are not even bothering to read the story. That the Internet for you.
You should get all the facts before posting. The kids were out at night, when there was a state of emergency. No one was supposed to be outside. A neighbor called and reported a "suspicious" person walking across their yard, so that was the reason the cops showed up in the first place. They asked the kids why they were out, and after they told them, the cops informed them that solicitations of that nature were against the local ordinance unless they obtained a permit. This ordinance was put in place to prevent those door-to-door scams on the elderly. The residents there are quite in favor of it. That said, the cops told the kids to come back during the daytime, the next day. And the boys did, and they got 5 shoveling jobs. End of story.
They did? Without a permit? The cops told them to break the law? I don't get it.
A couple of high school teens went around their neighborhood passing out flyers, door to door, announcing that they would remove snow. Someone complained, probably someone who has a snow plow mounted to a jeep, to the Bound Brook NJ police. The town has a 'no door to door soliciting without a permit'. High school kids, looking to make a few bucks are supposed to know this?
Ya things are getting more and more stupid everyday!!
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