[Summit] Summit Digest, Vol 75, Issue 17

[Emlyn Addison]

I don't think that's altogether fair. Come spring, this board lights up with
crime reports and just last week there was talk of bogus _magazine sellers_
once again mining the area for easy scores. So it's perfectly understandable
that another seller could raise eyebrows.

Yes, one can indeed refuse to answer the door, but how is that any more
compassionate? In my view the neighbor who called the police was just
practicing due diligence and magazine sellers would understand a certain
level of suspicion in a neighborhood so often targeted by less
well-intentioned outfits.

Call me cynical, but after having my $2,000 wheels stolen off my car in the
middle of the night, not 8 feet from where I sleep, I consider any
"business" practices in the area as much fair game to us as we are to them.

Emlyn


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> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:45:02 -0400
> From: elizabeth kearns <ek94 at cox.net>
> To: summit at sna.providence.ri.us
> Subject: Re: [Summit] magazines
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> At your house, you can choose to not answer the door.
> You can also say, 'No.' to a solicitor.
> I don't need magazines, so I got a subscription sent to the Walter
> Reed Hospital.
>
> It's too bad when an eager door knock at the end of a long day
> qualifies for a call to the police &
> when cynicism trumps compassion
>
>
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