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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?
A police officer responded to the scene of the crime to reprimand the boys that they were breaking the law. Cost of the permit was not stated but I'll bet it's more than what the kids would have made shoveling snow.
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?
A police officer responded to the scene of the crime to reprimand the boys that they were breaking the law. Cost of the permit was not stated but I'll bet it's more than what the kids would have made shoveling snow.
Isn't that the pits? And I bet you're right about the snow removal companies getting their noses bent out of shape.
The problem is easily solved in neighborhoods, though. The kids don't have to go door-to-door. They can phone their neighbors or catch them outside. That's what kids around here do. Same for raking leaves in the fall.
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?
A police officer responded to the scene of the crime to reprimand the boys that they were breaking the law. Cost of the permit was not stated but I'll bet it's more than what the kids would have made shoveling snow.
Sad really. First adults take their part time jobs at minimum wage then this. Can they mow grass still: I wander.No wander they often leave college with no real world job experience.
Sad really. First adults take their part time jobs at minimum wage then this. Can they mow grass still: I wander.No wander they often leave college with no real world job experience.
Immigrant rights groups will get up at arms if kids push too aggressively in to the lawn mowing business.
I wonder if these kids could get around the solicitation laws by putting up signs in their parents' front yards advertising their services? Just don't put them too close to the road so the plows can't bury them in snow.
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?
A police officer responded to the scene of the crime to reprimand the boys that they were breaking the law. Cost of the permit was not stated but I'll bet it's more than what the kids would have made shoveling snow.
It doesn't matter if they "should" know it. It's a law and if it's broken there are consequences.
The city I live in has that same ordinance. The purpose is to keep our streets safe. Every low life out there can't just go door to door, looking for crimes to commit.
Cost of the permit was not stated because there's no proof there was a cost. In our city, you just have to register. There is no cost involved. The kids weren't arrested, they were reprimanded. And informed of the law. They can now go and get the permit, and drum up business.
Immigrant rights groups will get up at arms if kids push too aggressively in to the lawn mowing business.
I wonder if these kids could get around the solicitation laws by putting up signs in their parents' front yards advertising their services? Just don't put them too close to the road so the plows can't bury them in snow.
They can (and do) get around it in the ways I mentioned.
Not only is it easy in multi-home subdivisions, there are all kinds of places to post service flyers--libraries, senior citizen centers, laundromats, garden shops, pet stores. We see (and have, for years) those flyers with the "take one" tabs in many places.
If that's what they need to do, then they should do it.
So kids have to go thru permit application to mow grass now. Sad. Government at work doing what it does best. Create red tape.
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