July 26, 2007 1:15PM # Illegal Manicure in the ‘Live Free or Die’ State By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE In response to to my [post](https://www.cato.org/2007/07/25/darn-those-stubborn-market-failures/) about a (possibly) illegal hairdresser in Massachusetts, Michael Hampton of [Homeland Stupidity](http://www.homelandstupidity.us/) forwards a link to [a priceless local New Hampshire news report](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx0HH5FIScU). (It’s two years old, but it’s new to me and to this blog.) [Free State Project](http://www.freestateproject.org) member Mike Fisher performed an illegal manicure right in front of the “Live Free or Die” state’s [Board of Barbering, Cosmetology and Esthetics](http://www.nh.gov/cosmet/). (Motto: Yew Best Drop That Thar Em’ry Board, Son.) When the police asked Fisher if he had a license to perform that thar manicure, Fisher said no. When the police issued him a summons and asked that he stop performing that thar manicure, Fisher refused. So the cops slapped handcuffs on this dangerous outlaw and put him in a squad car. Fisher [reportedly](http://nhindymedia.org/newswire/display/2361/index.php) received a 30-day suspended sentence, with a vow from the judge that if Fisher receives so much as a traffic ticket, it’s off to the pokey he goes. I wonder what the Granite State *wasn’t* doing with the time and resources used to arrest and prosecute Fisher. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Regulation](https://www.cato.org/regulatory-studies), [Tax and Budget Policy](https://www.cato.org/tax-budget-policy), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).