Brandon Corbins Head Indianapolis Product & Technology Evangelist

Holland zoning rules won’t bend for young entrepreneur

This article is making me absolutely sick to my stomach. Here is the short version. An 11 year old in Michigan gets old bikes, fixes them up and sells them to kids for a profit from his front yard. 11 years old! Lets make sure everyone gets this: the kid is 11 years old.

So a few of the neighbors didn’t like the way it looked and complianed to the city council! My god people, what kind of ass backwards nation have we become!? The kid is doing something productive with his time. I would rather have him selling bikes on his front yard, than building a pipe bomb in his basement! (Which just happened in the neighborhood next to mine). Or going to school for target practice with his dads gun (who he killed right after finishing his bowl of cocoa pebbles).

So to the neighbors who complained about this kid, get your priorities straight and learn to be more appreciative of the PEOPLE in your neighborhood and not the superficial aspects of your pretty little neighborhood.