Two 13-year-old boys were doing brisk business selling baked goods in Chappaqua, New York.  The two barely-teens, Andrew DeMarchis and Kevin Graff, were peddling Rice Krispies treats, brownies, and cookies at a local park when the police showed up.  The cops weren’t there to buy (there weren’t any doughnuts), they were there to break the business up.  The two kids selling baked goods were run off by the police for selling baked goods without a permit.

The person behind the phone call?  It was actually a local politician from nearby New Castle, Michael Wolfensohn.  Apparently he doesn’t want to be reelected, since turning kids over to the police for a victimless crime is pretty tough to explain away to the local electorate come election time.  Rules are rules, according to Wolfensohn, though he agrees in retrospect he might have been a bit harsh by calling the fuzz.

The two kids have decided to leave the bakery business after their brush with the law.  Meanwhile, the police might consider selling baked goods to raise cash if the economic downturn continues to stagnate local tax bases.

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