A few entrepreneurial teens in Bound Brook, NJ, learned in a valuable lesson in government dominance
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.
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.
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Only in New Jersey.....and Chris Christie wants to be president....WTFO?!
ReplyDeleteOh my... oh.... uh... my nanny told me it's too dangerous outside in the 23 degree air with snow on the ground.
ReplyDeleteCan you say Police State?
Just one more example of the Government sucking the life from us. This is a great country, don't get me wrong but while we as citizens have many freedoms, America stopped being a free country a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteChristie had nothing to do with it.
ReplyDeleteBound Brook, like many municipalities in the state and country....
Maybe the absence of pay phones to call his brother and sister is the culprit here.
ReplyDeleteNow, they can sue the Bell Telephone Company.
Oh, wait...
Uh-oh, my comment was to be for the "Lack of discharge plans" article! Sorry.
ReplyDeleteSteve.