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[quote=Anonymous]1:49 is correct, especially if you are alone at home w/ a child.  There have been several instances in Great Falls where men opened the door for someone (need directions? help? Can I use your phone? whatever) and then two men blast in, wrapped the man up in duct tape and took everything.

What you just experienced happened a lot in Fairfax county.  As a rule we now have very strict no solicitation rules just because of this problem.  Any legitimate solicitor has to have a badge which they are wearing around their neck with name and product they are selling clearly identified - since no one wants to bother with that anymore, I haven't had one of these rackets hit me in at least five years.

The racket is that young men and women runaways  - usually fairly attractive - are brought down from NYC to work the streets here.  They are left on street corners at dawn and told which streets to work,and that they need to sell 3 magazine subscriptions per house, for a total of X subscriptions by the end of the day or bad things will happen to them.  Or they won't get their ride back.  Or they won't get their drugs.  The kids are picked up much later in the day by the runner who collects all the orders and checks.  Naturally, no magazines or books ever arrive.

The usual approach is that the young healthy male (last one I spoke to) came bounding up my steps, running, saying that he was just talking to my friend "Mr Thomson over on X STreet" and "he thinks you might be interested in this".  He has the street right but the name he uses is usually wrong.  Of course he has my name from phone records.  Then he goes into the spiel about buying magazines and tries the hard sell.  At that point I say thru the door we're not interested and call the police.  Many of these kids have been lured into these operations and can't get out.  The police want to break up these operations, save the kids and send them home.  So next time it happens, don't open the door, but do call the police.  [/quote]

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