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I’ll Need to See Your Permit

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

I don’t know which is worse, that the city of Cleveland requires a “music permit” and a “pool table permit,” or that failing to obtain one is a criminal offense.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 12:52 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under Alcohol, Nanny State, There Oughtta Be a Law. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “I’ll Need to See Your Permit”

  1. #1 |  Jim Collins |  May 7th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    These permits involve paying a fee to the City of Cleveland for the privilege of having a jukebox or pool table in your establishment. It is a tax on the money taken in by these machines. The town I live in has the same thing. You should have seen how pissed off they got when our club removed the coin boxes from our jukebox and pool tables and made them free play. As free play machines they didn’t require the permit.

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  2. #2 |  Jeffrey Quick |  May 7th, 2008 at 3:33 pm

    I knew there was a reason I moved out of Cleveland. I’ll “permit” them…to kiss my a–!

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  3. #3 |  Gary McGath |  May 7th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

    Double trouble in River City! Even Prof. Harold Hill wouldn’t be able to save them.

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  4. #4 |  roy |  May 7th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    Running a business with the permits sounds a bit like tax evasion. As much as I dislike paying my taxes, I don’t find it upsetting that refusing to do so is a crime.

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