Charlottesville is considering imposing new rules to regulate yard sales. Residents would be required to buy a permit to hold one, and would be forbidden to hold too many. No word yet on how many is too many.
WHY??? What is wrong with the people over there???
Are they afraid people will sell junk? Well wealreadyknow it is something thatthe seller doesn't want. Caveat Emptor
Barton Hinkle over at the Richmond Times Dispatch writes.........
And perhaps there is a sense, among some in the tony environs surrounding Mr. Jefferson's University, that yard sales are shabby, white-trash affairs put on by people who are N.O.C.D. -- Not Our Class, Dear. It's one thing to let the riffraff scatter their belongings all over the lawn once in a while, but must one look at the rubbish every weekend? Maybe that's unfair reverse snobbery.
But requiring permits for yard sales is going too far. Why, it's downright un-American, as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid would say.
H/T to Shaun
