Got hit with the Dawn dish soap scam

[GBLittle]

Tell them to be VERY CAREFUL of the dog

 

[Autonomous]

Do not post signs advertising you have guns. You are not intimidating anyone, rather you are letting the bad guys know where to find guns.

Letting strangers in your home is a bad idea. They are not there for your benefit; a co-workers wife let some guys in to clean the carpet for free. She never would admit it had something to do with all their silver bullion being stolen a week later.
It took me too many decades to stop my wife from signing up for every free offer she saw. I fear if I pass first, she will get taken sooner than later.
If you have to let contractors or service people in, hide the Rembrandt & lock the bedroom doors.

dben002 said "I have become overly jaded the past 7 years "
Jaded, or older and wiser?

 

[ridewv]

I feel slighted because being off the beaten path NO one comes to my house. Well unless I order something on Amazon then FedEx will come in my drive and leave the box on my porch.

Back when I lived in town I got all kinds of visitors; people selling lawn service, kids selling stuff for school fundraising, Girl Scouts selling cookies, Mormons and other Christians promoting their faith, local politicians running for office, people selling magazine subscriptions etc. Although I imagine magazine sellers have had to find something else now.

 

[white cloud]

I live on a 200 acre timber tract in the very rural south. The driveway is pretty long. I get NO drop in company and have had repair people call at the head of the driveway and ask if it was really okay to drive in. I don't miss the city at all.

 

[kamloops67]

Bring back chain gangs and tramp chairs

 

[brians356]

No such thing as a quiet neighborhood these days, I'm afraid.

Not around metros like Atlanta anyway.
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[Smoke]

No such thing as a quiet neighborhood these days, I'm afraid.

Disagree

 

[dm1215]

Should have pulled out the cell phone and snapped a picture or two and share with the local PD..Be careful the next few nights Tom, all the rats come from up north Jersey and NY after dark for the home invasions & high end car thefts

I don't need to snap a picture of anyone at my front porch. I tell them to look up and smile. There is a nice-looking camera there making a video.

 

[45Smashemflat]

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That’s a big lawn for a push mower!

 

[F4phantom]

We live in a small community and the police really look out for the residents. They patrol all the neighborhoods and if you call them and tell them you’ll be on vacation they’ll add patrols to check your house.

I, too, live in a small community. The Village has a no soliciting ordinance, one must register with the Village to canvas the neighborhoods. Plus individual households can be on a no soliciting list, which t means even if they get a permit from the Village, they cannot knock on your door. One nice thing is if someone does ignore everything, a quick call to the PD has an officer on site within five minutes. BTDT

 

[llowry61]

We don't answer the door anymore. We can see them with the camera and the video goes straight to our phones and the cloud. Seems like no one pays attention to the Green River Ordinance in effect. We have a sheriff that lives in the neighborhood that parks his marked vehicle in the drive and still doesn't even slow them down. People have to know they are on multiple cameras anytime they are in the area.

 

[Smoke]

That’s a big lawn for a push mower!

That's what grandkids are for

 

[XP10035Rem]

Got a sign my wife won't let me put near the front door. Now I lay me down to sleep. Beside my bed a gun I keep. If I awake and your inside a coroners van will be your last ride

 

[Echo154]

I keep bees. I have a hive at each ground floor windows and 1 on my front porch! I have beware of bees posted in numerous places! I also have this sign on my front door and always have this on when I’m outside on my property! Oh and a sign warning “bees sting to defend their home …..Home owner just shoots!

PS I don’t have grandkids…..do goats count

 

[Jay Hall]

Last year I had an interesting encounter with a sales person who wouldn't leave. I had just returned home from the range and was unloading things from the back of my car and my garage door was open. I was in the middle of unloading the car when a young Hispanic male dressed in a knit shirt with a business logo and a hat with the same logo and a clip board approached. He approached me but was still in my driveway when I asked him if I could help him. It was obvious he was selling something and I asked what he was selling. He responded that he wasn’t selling anything and said he was new in the community and wanted to know if I could recommend a good church. I told him my wife and I used to attend one in a nearby town where we had lived but when we moved it was just too far to drive. He persisted and I said there is a church on every corner and I couldn’t recommend one because I didn’t know anything about his faith or him.

I then confronted him asking what he’s selling and he again said nothing but started to walk into my garage. I told him I was armed and it wouldn’t be a good idea to walk any farther into my garage or he would regret his decision.

We exchanged words and laughed at me and I informed him there’s a sign at the entrance of the subdivision prohibiting solicitation and told him to leave or I’d call the police and he finally did.

I went ahead and called the police and reported the incident. The police arrived within a couple of minutes and asked a few questions. The police officers drove away then one returned about 5 minutes later. The officers partner was detaining two young men working my neighborhood and the officer asked what I’d like them to do with the two men. I said I thought a warning would be in order and he agreed.

We live in a small community and the police really look out for the residents. They patrol all the neighborhoods and if you call them and tell them you’ll be on vacation they’ll add patrols to check your house.

I live in a rural area and had a similar incident but I surprised the "visitor" knocking at my front door by going out the back door and flanking him, I had my right arm behind my back with my 5 inch 686, which he could not see but surely surmised and he then gave a bizarre reason for coming to the door . I did not have to say much and he quickly left in a pickup truck. I felt for sure he was there to case the house or worse, wish I had gotten his plate number.

 

[Heinz]

‘Au contraire mon frere’.​

My neighborhood is the very definition of serenity and tranquility.

But you are paying a high price for it.

 

[Rustyt1953]

But you are paying a high price for it.

Actually, I am not.

 

[hkcavalier]

I live in a very rural and not wealthy area, which keeps the in-person scammers at bay. I also am hidden from the road by woods and a ~900ft driveway. I saw some shady door-to-door types when I lived the suburb life south of Seattle.

I am against signs like "protected by Smith & Wesson" or "beware of owner" as they indicate you have (probably nice) firearms in the house. This middle-class cheekiness does you no favors. Be the gray man (or woman).

 

[FLF]

Rural property, fenced with no-climb and electric. Locked gates with no trespassing and dogs on property signs. Nothing says anything about guns or bad dogs - no need to give the lawyers any extra ammo. If they get past the gates they have to deal with the dogs, if they hurt a dog they will have to deal with my wife - will not end well for them... Florida so do not expect any problems from the local LEO's or DA.

 

[Telecaster]

How does the Dawn dish soap fit into the scam? Not that it needs to make sense…