Bureaucrats like this oaf who shut the budding entrepeneur down make me ill. The idiot government “worker” should be shunned in the community. What an unfeeling ghoul.
I once knew a woman who was starting a business. She went to the city/county offices and paid the taxes required to get the government’s permission to function...I mean..licenses. She paid it all outright. She was assured that she had paid everything she needed to pay and they failed to inform her that she also needed a food license to put ice in the drinks. So, she opens up and in comes the health inspector to inform her that she can’t sell prepackaged food without a license (like lays potato chips, or doritos, or whatever). And, she can’t use her ice machine, nor can she purchase Ice from a licensed dealer. In fact, she couldn’t even stay open unless she hired someone with a portable foodwagon to sit in her driveway to sell food. And, she still couldn’t put ice in the drinks. It killed her business.
It was crazy.
She did get the food license, but by then word got out and destroyed her customer base.