A friend of ours has a young son who bought a lawnmower at a garage sale last spring for $5. He went to a local hardware store and bought a replacement wheel to make it functional. Then he went door to door looking for lawn mowing jobs. He mowed several lawns for a few weeks. Then one day police showed up at his Mom's door asking if he was mowing lawns. When she said he was they wrote her a warning for allowing a person under the age of 16 to work operating power machinery. They also explained that he was not allowed to go door to door searching for work. They left her a Department of Labor brochure which defines which jobs can be done by minors and told her if he mowed again she would be cited. The boy thinks one of the area lawn services turned him in as they stopped and asked him some questions one day. What has happened to our world!?
