I don’t answer the door either. Maybe during the day, but definitely not at night. If it were someone I knew, they’d have called first. Nothing is as important as your personal safety. I’m sure that “I thought he was telling the truth about being homeless/his hurt puppy/his wrecked car/the charity he is campaigning for,” is a great comfort to women (or men) who opened the door and lived to regret it.
A year or so ago I had fallen asleep in the recliner near my front door and awoke at 2 AM to some rustling sounds. I went to the peephole and it was a drunk-looking man trying to open my door. I grabbed the closest heavy object, which happened to be a rock pick. (My toolbox happened to be near the door.) When he started banging I shouted at him to go away. Then he started mumbling some nonsense that I knew who he was and told him he could come over. He left when he heard me talking to the 911 operator.
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No doubt about it, CPD are good guys. But, just for the record, if you lived in Forest Acres, the FAs woulda had the guy face-down and spread-eagled in the middle of Trenholm Road before you hung up.
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Oh, come on. You know they’re too busy catching speeders from Columbia going 41 on Trenholm.
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Charming. How do you know he was lying?
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I’ll only speak for myself here, but any panhandler claiming to be a veteran is almost certain a liar.
For claiming to be a veteran, and for basicly acting like a potential psycho.
There is a difference between ‘annoying’ and ‘intrusive’. Most panhandlers already hit the ‘intrusive’ level just be asking for change outside of a store. This is several levels above that.
