Police stop teenagers trying to make a buck shoveling snow

Two entrepreneurial teenagers in Bound Brook, N.J. tried to earn some extra money this week by offering to shovel snow for neighbors while school was canceled. To bolster business, they went door to door handing out fliers — until they were stopped by police, who shut them down for failing to comply with local regulations against solicitors.

An older resident of the neighborhood where the boys where questioned expressed outrage over the situation: "Are you kidding me? Our generation does nothing but complain about his generation being lazy and not working for their money," he said. "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?"

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