It depends on the rule and the severity of the rule-breaking. Every day some kid is risking a fine for selling lemonade by breaking any number of permit and he

It depends on the rule and the severity of the rule-breaking. Every day some kid is risking a fine for selling lemonade by breaking any number of permit and health code laws. They do it anyway. I suppose a lesson could be learned, start a movie studio that shows how to build a lemonade company. Most kids would not get off the ground. Most would simply complain to their parents who would in turn email The Consumerist causing the media to get the kids their lemonade stand. I probably would have broken the rules and got the truck without the permit. Maybe it would have blown it for me, and I would have been forcibly removed and never sold a single shoe. Though I think there is another important side to this. That side is the nepotistic behavior of the city issuing permits to only movie studios and construction companies to build ball parks. I would rather prove the point that there is nefarious permit issuing going on within the city than be a part of their corrupt system of permit issuance. I suppose the best thing to do would be to work as did the shoe guy, make your 40K units sold, and then make some noise about the permit issue with your profits. Sometimes breaking rules is a good thing, and helps to enact change for the better, or make awareness of the absurdity of the rule itself.