Published January 28, 2015
By: Sergio Bichau (Bridgewater [NJ] Courier News)
BOUND BROOK, N.J. School was closed for the blizzard that wasn't, but there was still enough snow on the ground that two 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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GO0gAfr_n0
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.
"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?"
Bound Brook, like many municipalities in the state and country, has a law against unlicensed solicitors and peddlers.
http://www.perloasis.org/snow-elimination-is-an-essential-evil-when-it-comes-to-having-a-house/
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.
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/01/28/police-stop-teens-seeking-snow-shoveling-work
