From last nights "This is True"

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RULES ARE RULES: Jan Cline of Salem, Ore., is trying to fight off
terminal bone cancer. "Just by walking I can break a bone," she says.
Cline wants to be a good citizen and pay her mounting medical bills.
"It's a struggle," she says. "It's a struggle for me because I'm very
independent, used to taking care of myself." To help, she has been
selling off her possessions in a series of yard sales. The problem:
Salem has a law limiting residents to three yard sales per year. She
didn't know about the law until a city inspector stopped by her house
and ordered her to stop the sales. If she has another one within a
year, it's a misdemeanor and she'll be subject to a $300 fine. "I hope
no one else has to give their lives away for nickels and dimes and then
be told they can't even do that," Cline said. After explaining to the
inspector what she was doing and why, "He said, 'I'm sorry. Rules are
rules.'" (RC/KATU-TV) ..."Rules are rules" -- the bureaucratic
equivalent to the parental "Because I said so."

"The government is stupid because when a law was formulated it didn't include an extremely specific situation in which someone would need more than three yard sales a year."

1. Take crap you want to sell.
2. Distribute among friends.
3. Have them sell it and give you the money.
4. Profit!

Alternately;

1. EBay.
2. Profit!

Incidentally, according to TIT(heh), as soon as Cline's story was picked up by ABC news, she got a ton of donations, and the mayor was working to get the sales moved to commercial property. But nope, Cline wants an exception put in the law.

Would this be a "terminal cancer" exception? Because I am pretty sure this loophole will be abused. In fact, all you'd have to do is give your crap to a guy with terminal cancer to sell. In fact, this law is probably to stop people who want to end-run around a business license and/or zoning laws by having all the yard sales they want.
Also, lady, you are dying of cancer. Priorities. Worry about getting your stuff sold first.