New Jersey teens, Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, were hoping to make a few bucks shoveling snow in their neighborhood.
But police ruined their plans when they told the teens they needed a permit to promote their services.
Watchdog.org reported:
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When a major snowstorm hit the east coast two weeks ago, two entrepreneurial teens in New Jersey were ready.
Until they ran directly into a real force of nature: government nannies.
Matt Molinari and Eric Schnepf, both 18-year-olds from Bound Brook, N.J., were going door-to-door in their neighborhood Jan. 27, handing out homemade flyers that offered snow-shoveling services. School had already been canceled for the next day, when a winter storm was expected to bury their portion of the Garden State under several inches of cold white powder.
But their offer of a free exchange of services for cash caught the attention of the local police force.
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According to local news reports, the cops told the kids they weren’t allowed to solicit business by going door-to-door without a permit from the local government.
“We weren’t looking to break the law. We just didn’t know the law,” Molinari told CBS New York.
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