No Permit – No work

About 5 city officers stopped by a guy who sells potatoes on the street corner outside the library and municipal offices and requested that the guy produce a work permit for selling potatoes. The officers said that if he didn’t have the permit, they will confiscate his potatoes but one thing that caught my attention is how calm the guy was and how he was responding to the officers, and I suspected that he did not have the permit. He then pretended to be calling someone to bring the permit for him and the officers left saying they are coming back but they did not return