Occupational Licensing Gone Wild
January 25, 2011 at 08:28 AM EST
An 82-year old Oregon barber (pictured above) with more than half a century of experience cutting hair (he was first licensed in 1957) is accused by government authorities in Oregon of “criminal barbering” because his government license to cut hair inadvertently expired in 2006. Now state regulators want him to go back to barber school [...]