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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu May 21, 2015, 06:09 PM May 2015

NYC food cart vendor facing $600 in fines for hiking up hot dog prices for tourists: officials

THOMAS TRACY

That $30 wiener a downtown Manhattan food cart vendor was accused of selling could cost the frank fleecer more than $600 in fines, officials said Thursday.

First Precinct cops visited dog seller Ahmed Mohammed — who allegedly hikes up his hot dog prices when a tourist is in range — on Wednesday and slapped him with three violations, NYPD Capt. Mark Iocco tweeted

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/food-cart-vendor-facing-fines-hiking-hot-dog-prices-article-1.2230837

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NYC food cart vendor facing $600 in fines for hiking up hot dog prices for tourists: officials (Original Post) hrmjustin May 2015 OP

Shame on him. 840high May 2015 #1

Free enterprise? Buyer beware? Free speech? What the vendor did was wrong, but it was not illegal except for Fred Sanders May 2015 #2

840high

(17,196 posts)

1. Shame on him.

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2015, 06:23 PM

May 2015

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

2. Free enterprise? Buyer beware? Free speech? What the vendor did was wrong, but it was not illegal except for

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2015, 06:30 PM

May 2015

not posting prices.

Who, including any tourist, would buy a weinersnitzel on the street in Berlin for 30 Euros?

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