Rural living is great for privacy, or is it?

[dragoneggs]

I was bothered by them a few iyeas in a row...until the day I was woken up frm a nap nude. Threw on a robe, answered the door. Them not taking "NO" for an answer, I kept repeating while accidently letting the robe slip a bit more open. didn't take lone and they must have put me on a list as I haven't seen them at the door for over 20 years now.

Bad man. :talktothehand:

 

[turnkey4099]

JW's are just people and deserve as much respect shown to them as you want shown to you.

And no, I'm not a JW!

Granted but when they don't leave after I tell them "Not interested" they are disrespecting me and deserve any retaliation short of physical. DThat goes for the Mormans and other proseltyzers.

 

[dragoneggs]

Granted but when they don't leave after I tell them "Not interested" they are disrespecting me and deserve any retaliation short of physical. DThat goes for the Mormans and other proseltyzers.

They are a persistent lot. My guess is they are trained hard not to take a brush off... and stay with the pitch as long as possible. Salespeople like that are a turn off for me regardless of the product they are pushing and I don't put up with it as they are spending my time.

 

[PhysAssist]

Thanks, now see I would have known what "gone bush" meant. But I had never heard of the galah. I have talked to a fair number of ozzy's over the years and Kiwi's too over amateur radio, but I guess we didn't discuss the fauna. Many years ago, I used to talk to this old ozzy gal out in the middle of the country, I can even remember her callsign, It was VK3BJB. Her name was Joan. She was much older than I and I am sure she would be gone by now.

I just looked up that callsign, and it is still there!.. Joan Beevers in Mildura Victoria.:shocked: Of course that doesn't mean she is still around, just that the callsign has not been reassigned.

As a bird lover and former Umbrella Cockatoo owner [she got egg-bound and died of sepsis], we knew what a Galah was- some folks call them Galah Cockatoos, but most folks here call them Rose-Breasted Cockatoos- they're very pretty.

Also, They are/were [I know they used to be] Aussieland's nearest equivalent to our pigeons- in number and ubiquity.

Thomas.

 

[Alien]

I was bothered by them a few iyeas in a row...until the day I was woken up frm a nap nude. Threw on a robe, answered the door. Them not taking "NO" for an answer, I kept repeating while accidently letting the robe slip a bit more open. didn't take lone and they must have put me on a list as I haven't seen them at the door for over 20 years now.

Don't give me ideas turnkey. LOL

 

[thepumpguysc]

I don't get the JW's but the OLD Baptists came around ONCE..
I have 3 dogs who are very protective of THEIR property..
I have swingin' dog doors on all the doors and they come and go as they please..
They'll hit the front porch/yard barking before I even know anyone is there..
All I ever see are tail lights going back down the road..

 

[daugen]

They are a persistent lot. My guess is they are trained hard not to take a brush off... and stay with the pitch as long as possible. Salespeople like that are a turn off for me regardless of the product they are pushing and I don't put up with it as they are spending my time.

well said.

as someone who had to spend a few years occasionally making cold calls (from a list of leads), the ability to take rejection
is quite an issue. I never wanted to bother folks but I did want to find out if they had any use for the long term care insurance
I was newly able to provide. Mass Mutual, one of the finest American insurance companies. Been in Springfield Mass for hundreds of years.
Equivalent to selling John Deere or Fendt. Top of the line. I still have my LTCI policy and they have never raised their rates.

So here I am calling about a really good product from a 100% reputable company and I wasn't very good at it. I would never want to offend and would disengage too easily. Now the motivated religious folks seem to have much better training than I did...or their belief that they were doing God's good work by spreading the Word just let them power through the first volley of objections.

If they have passed your signs and/or after you have said no thank you they persist and even lean closer to your doorway, well... I find it amusing that the most successful response seems to be the male nude body. Americans are so uptight about nudism and I bet these folks are wound pretty tight about that too, so I can see why it works.

I also see these people, as has been said before, as gentle human beings who are trying to do good works.
We may have zero interest in it, and have a knee jerk negative reaction to them, the hard sell salesmen for their particular God...,
but we shouldn't abuse them. Not at first...let's not forget to be the nice people we are and say no thank you pleasantly.

Of course others feel the racking of a pump shotgun works too.
You sure wouldn't get me going door to door...
Nothing like a great big dog scrabbling away with its claws on your driver side window when you think about how to get out of the car....:shocked:
I get too much UPS from Amazon to put in an electric gate. Now, if someone sees a No Trespassing sign and a fully shut gate and fence, and they
climb over that fence, I'm no lawyer or LEO but I think you can get shot that way. I know if someone actually breaks into your home, the law seems to allow a lot of leeway in protecting yourself, as in shoot first and ask questions later.
Well what if you have a six foot privacy fence and a locked gate and they still get in?

We can keep the deer out with fences, but apparently not people.

 

[jack707]

JW don't bother me they have a 1/4 mile walk and beside that this is men a night area.

 

[scdeerslayer]

I'd be very surprised if that happens. All of those satellite image maps use outdated photos for a reason; terrorism. Google used to have very up-to-date images, until one day they didn't. I asked them why, and was told they changed to older images at the request of Homeland Security in order to stymie terrorist plotting using current info.

They sometimes do take a few years to update, but some areas are updated more than others. The last time the photo of my area was updated (in 2014) the image was only a few months old. I could tell because there was a tree in my parents yard that had been blown apart by lightning and the image was before we cleaned it up, and from the looks of my fields I knew it was only about a week or so since I had planted them. Plus from the cars at my parents house I knew the image was taken on a Sunday afternoon.

The realtime satellite image likely won't happen because of bandwith. Plus there's only so many satellites, and they can see a certain area, so then who controls where the satellite is and what the satellite is looking at?

 

[roadhunter]

I am not a big fan of what are essentially door to door religion salesmen. Doesn't' matter if it's JH or Mormons. It's an invasion of privacy and quite frankly makes for an awkward time for the homeowner for no good reason. I had a guy I worked with and his wife come by a few years ago. I was nice, too nice IMO. They came back a week or so later and I was working on the roof. I did not come down and greet them. I hated to be rude but felt it was necessary to get the point across.