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From: millines@fortune.UUCP (Trish Millines)
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Subject: They say we're moving ahead!
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Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 17:58:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 17:58:35 1984
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I just read this article in the San Francisco Chronicle today.  I'd like to
pass it on to you 'cause I can't believe I read this bullshit.

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     Officials want to close Gerry Clevenger's hot dog stand because they say
she's simply too pretty to work on a street corner where she could cause an
accident by distracting passing male motorists.

     "From what they tell me, she's an attractive girl.  I felt it was a
nuisance," council President Vincent Tarantino said yesterday.

     The 30-year-old woman said she left her job as a cocktail waitress to
begin peddling hot dogs because she wanted to be in the sun, work her own
hours, and bring her 9-year-old son to work with her.

     She said she got the appropriate licenses to open Gerry's Hot Dog Stand
on Route 555 and Glassboro-Cross Keys Road, a busy intersection in a rural
section of this souther New Jersey community, and never anticipated the 
controversy.

     "I haven't caused one accident on this corner in the two months that I've
been here," she said.

     Tarantino said the intersection is heavily used.  "She could cause a
hazard, she could cause an accident," he said.  "If she wears short pants or
a bathing suit, it would be a hazard if someone took their eyes off the road".

     Tarantino said lawmakers in the Gloucester County township were first
told that Clevenger might pose a danger by Butch D'Alessandro, who owns
Butch's Little Ponderosa across the street from Clevenger's stand.

     "She will wave at these people to come in.  I think it's a traffic
hazard," D'Alessandro said.  But he acknowledged that he does not like the
competition.

     At a recent township council meeting, lawmakers discussed whether
Clevenger "is causing a potential danger to motorists."

     The council also considered whether they should try to find a way to
revise township ordinances to bar Clevenger' business from the corner.  They
reached no decision.

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Now isn't that the shit?  One woman opens a little hot dog stand, a man gets
upset because of possible competition, and they're going to change the law
to keep her from operating her business!!!!  What ever happened to free
enterprise?  Does this mean that she has to wear long pants and long sleeve
shirts, and burn up while she's working in 90 degree weather?

I sure would like to hear some opinions on this, 'cause I just can't believe
this is even happening in this day and age.  Thank God I left New Jersey....