ok bud, you should seriously be shot.

[scroob]

This isn't from me but one of my cw's. I recently got a new job as an appointment setter (canvasser) for a major window company. Most of the houses I visit are fine, but there are some exceptions, such as: people who refuse to quiet their barking dogs and screaming kids while trying to talk to me, people who stand at their windows and stare at me for 486359823436578234 minutes without acknowledging me, parents who send their kids out to shoo me off their porch, people who call the police on me AFTER talking to me and saying no to my pitch, and saying things such as "maybe if we ignore the bell he will go away."

But the worst was what happened to my poor cw. Now she is new at this, and one of the sweetest girls you will ever meet. So was it really necessary for a bunch of teenage kids to drive by her, and throw a soda bottle at her head? I mean she's just doing her job. I understand that the kids probably inherited money and will never have to do a job in their lives, but is it really necessary to abuse someone just walking down the damn street?
I think not.

[Moirae]

Wow. Assault. I'd say thats reason to call the cops.

[scroob]

sad thing is, the area she was in, if she had called the cops, it would've been more likely she would've been the one arrested (for "soliciting w/out permit or whatever they call that bulls***) and the kids wouldn't have gotten in trouble. Besides, she wasn't hit by it. But this job has caused me to lose respect in the police and therefore I have complete confidence that they wouldn't have done anything for her.

[An Haddock]

sad thing is, the area she was in, if she had called the cops, it would've been more likely she would've been the one arrested (for "soliciting w/out permit or whatever they call that bulls***) and the kids wouldn't have gotten in trouble. Besides, she wasn't hit by it. But this job has caused me to lose respect in the police and therefore I have complete confidence that they wouldn't have done anything for her.

Was she soliciting without a permit?

[scroob]

technically speaking, no. we are not solicitors. but most cops dont see it that way

[tropicsgoddess]

Damn that really sucks those punks did that to her (and may very well get away with it from what you're saying)!

[starsinthesky]

I can't imagine someone doing that. Stupid punks.

The only time I have been rude to people in the same position as you is this auto glass company in my state. They are very aggressive to the point where they cite made up laws to scare people into using their service to replace/repair the glass. One time they even asked if they could talk to my husband when I told them to leave.

[RealUnimportant]

In this market you've got to do whatever you can find to get a paycheck I suppose, and there's absolutely no defense for assaulting anyone on the street whether that was related to her work or not!

I'm not convinced you should be working a No Soliciting zone though; sounds like your boss is risking your freedom on the hope that you'd get off, but I doubt he'd offer any legal support if you actually were arrested.

[Barracuda]

I had something sort of similar happen to me once. I was at the bus stop on a busy road after school (I was still in high school at the time,) and as someone was driving by, they yelled, "HEY ASSHOLE!" and threw a full large paper cup (fast food, this was before they switched largely to plastic,) and beaned me right in the side of the head. Some sort of cola exploded all over me, and I had a large welt as a result for a couple days. Unfortunately, I was too stunned to think to get the license plate number. I heard them laughing as they drove off; I never did understand why someone would want to be such a total asshole--and waste the soda they had paid for.

[Nayeli_Sabia]

saying things such as "maybe if we ignore the bell he will go away."

I don't answer the door for a variety of reasons, but partly because the door knockers tend to come by while my husband is overseas with the military. There is no way I'm opening the door for anyone not family, friend, or uniformed personnel. In our old neighborhood that was a safety thing too. Just a reminder that you never know why someone may not answer the door. Though I tended to try and hide, that didn't always work with the huge front window.

[sirwired]

*poof!*

SirWired

[Ree]

Just a reminder that this thread is not meant to discuss door to door solicitors nor telemarketers, and how we feel about them or deal with them.

The fact is, some of our members, including the OP do work these types of jobs to pay the bills, and they do not need to read comments that degrade them or what they do.

The thread is also not meant to discuss whether the OP's job constitutes soliciting or should be backed up by a license.

The focus of this thread should be that someone deliberately threw a bottle of soda from a moving car and hit a complete stranger's head just because they didn't like what she was doing by going door-to-door to earn a living.

That is not acceptable at all, and her unprovoked assault should be what has people outraged, rather than the job she was doing.

Any further discussion of opinions on the jobs of door-to-door soliciting and telemarketing will be removed.

[Andara Bledin]

Yes, certainly throwing the object was out of line, but...

There is no "but." Unprovoked assault is never ok.

^-.-^

[FiddleFaddle]

There is no "but." Unprovoked assault is never ok.

^-.-^

Amen! There is no BUT about unprovoked assault, no matter WHAT You think of her job she didn't deserve to be treated like that >(

[wolfie]

The focus of this thread should be that someone deliberately threw a bottle of soda from a moving car and hit a complete stranger's head just because they didn't like what she was doing by going door-to-door to earn a living.

That is not acceptable at all, and her unprovoked assault should be what has people outraged, rather than the job she was doing.

But the worst was what happened to my poor cw. Now she is new at this, and one of the sweetest girls you will ever meet. So was it really necessary for a bunch of teenage kids to drive by her, and throw a soda bottle at her head?

Besides, she wasn't hit by it.

I had something sort of similar happen to me once. I was at the bus stop on a busy road after school (I was still in high school at the time,) and as someone was driving by, they yelled, "HEY ASSHOLE!" and threw a full large paper cup (fast food, this was before they switched largely to plastic,) and beaned me right in the side of the head. Some sort of cola exploded all over me, and I had a large welt as a result for a couple days.

Actually, the soda bottle (no mention of full or not) missed the door-to-door person. It was someone else waiting at a bus stop after school who got hit by a full soda cup. Still, the fact that the bottle-thrower missed doesn't excuse things, merely downgrades it from battery to assault.