On 6/3/2021 6:16 PM, GM wrote:
> On Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 5:59:14 PM UTC-5, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 06:40:59 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 9:01:15 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 04:53:05 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday, June 3, 2021 at 7:27:42 AM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure what "calls past" means (I even looked it up).
>>>>>
>>>>> We would say "drops by".
>>>>
>>>> Somebody knocks or rings on the door when I'm not expecting it I
>>>> don't even look out peephole 19 out of 20 times. The door doesn't
>>>> get opened.
>>>>
>>>> I was cornered by a roofing salesman a couple weeks ago ("Kyle")
>>>> while I was sitting on the porch and I told him "Not interested.
>>>> Keep on walking" before he even entered the driveway. Then 10 more
>>>> times... "Please leave", "Just go away", "Get off my property",
>>>> "stop walking. Turn around. DO NOT COME ANY CLOSER", "get the ****
>>>> off my property", :"Now get the **** out of my yard!", "Yo! WTF IS
>>>> YOUR PROBLEM DUDE!?!".... all the while he's trying to sell me a
>>>> roof while advancing on me on the porch criticizing my 'attitude',
>>>> criticising, my lawn, my trees, my bushes (which I had just trimmed
>>>> and were spread out all over the yard)... "May I ask who did your
>>>> roof last time?"
>>>
>>> "Please show me your peddler's license."
>>>
>>> That lets them know you're willing to call the police on them. They
>>> usually stop when we say that.
>> Our jurisdictions don't require solicitation permits. And the
>> Cities that do, they're being shot down by higher courts. The
>> Supreme Court has ruled that solicitors of any sort are allowed to
>> bug the shit out of you by knocking on you door to deliver any
>> message they want, provided it's a "proper time and place". I shit
>> you not.
>>
>> While you can get somebody for trespassing, that's only after you
>> deliver notice to *specific* individuals witnessed by a Judge or
>> police officer. And only then can subsequent ingresses be
>> prosecutable. And getting a cop out to delver a residential
>> trespass warning and file it is near impossible (around here).
>>
>> The only other way it's prosecutable is if you have a
>> fence/wall/gates and they scale it to get onto your property. But
>> 99.5% of residential areas have laws about front-facing fences,
>> walls, and gates saying that they may only start at the edge of your
>> house (except on a corner lot), leaving street entry open to your
>> front door. And thereby fair game for solicitors. I shit you not
>> again.
>>
>> Is that ****ed up or what? And people wonder why those "no
>> solicitation" signs don't work.
>>
>> I found a loophol,e though. The law regarding it being unlawful to
>> enter "Crime Scene" areas marked by tape or other notices, DOES NOT
>> have a provision saying that it must be placed by an authority to be
>> unlawful to pass. So I'm going to order 7,500 feet of yellow
>> "Crime Scene - DO NOT ENTER" tape. While I only need to wrap it
>> around the front of the house, 7,500 feet is the minimum order. I
>> can sell some to my neighbors at $.03/foot (cost).
>>
>> I should have been a lawyer.
>>
>> -sw
>
>
> Naw, sounds like you vote democrat...
>

He's doing his own form of "community policing"...

;-)