June 22, 2017
The
city of Meridian, Idaho was mulling a new city ordinance regulating home-based
businesses. One provision that got people’s attention concerned limiting the number
of attendees at parties for selling products like Scentsy or jewelry, to avoid
disrupting traffic in the neighborhoods.
That
raised a number of questions: How would they enforce it? Would neighbors call
in with complaints? Would a city official come by to hand out a summons? Suppose
someone were actually having a baby shower or a birthday party or a Superbowl
party? Would they have to have a cake and party streamers, or Superbowl snacks,
to prove their innocence?
Then
I started thinking about how the people who actually were selling products
could have specially designed cabinets to thwart the inspectors: One minute the
wares are on display, the next minute they’re completely hidden. A cake would
be prominently displayed and, if you were feeling particularly bold, you could
hand the inspector a cupcake with a tiny baby bottle on it. (It would help this
subterfuge if you had an obviously pregnant woman at the party.)
The
ordinance may need some work…
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