You Might Be Buying Your Street Meat From a Dead Man
The NYPost today reports the completely-not-shocking news that street vendor licenses registered to people who are now deceased are being renewed and sometimes sold to other vendors. Considering how long the waiting list for a vendors license is, I’m not surprised that a family would continue to use (or even sell) their dead uncle’s license. The shocking bit is how much these license renewals “lease” for on the black market. Maybe if the city increased the number of licenses that were available, there wouldn’t be an illegal black market “leasing” these things for thousands of dollars. (Thanks to Lunch’er Dave for the tip)
Posted by Zach Brooks at 1:00 pm, June 15th, 2009 under News, Street Vendor Issues.
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Obligatory: “The streetmeat you might be eating might be a dead man”…