Tonight at 8PM, a young teen knocked on our front screen door (half glass half screen, locked at that time). I was working on something in our living room and couldn't get to the door right at that moment, so I called out "who is it?" At the time the teen knocked, I saw them briefly, and they saw me. However upon seeing me, they hid somewhat off to the side of our door, to where I could no longer see their face. They replied, "cut". I said "what???" And again came the reply, "cut". I could not understand why someone would be offering to cut my lawn (if that's even what it was they were saying) when it was almost completely dark out, so I simply said "no thanks". Things got even weirder, when the person immediately replied "no, I have a girlfriend". Again I said "what??" The teen then showed themselves, and again said "I have a girlfriend". At this point I did not know what type of person I was dealing with, but it was starting to feel like a potentially dangerous situation. I finally said "I think you should leave now". At this point they held up some small white laminated card, with some pictures on it but I could not make out at all what was on it from where I was. At this point I was really getting mad and I said "I'm not interested". Again he said "I'm not interested either, I have a girlfriend", after which he laughed. I finally said "would you like for me to call the police?" He laughed again and mumbled something and walked on to our neighbor's house. They were not home. I then saw him heading down Winchester towards Fletchwood Rd.
After they left, I could not help but wonder if the same thing was being done here as Cristian posted below, regarding scoping out houses for robberies. I'm not exactly sure of how to handle this situation if it occurs again, but it left me very concerned for my family tonight.
The person was a young black teen, wearing a white t-shirt and jean shorts, probably around 5' 11" in height (from where I was sitting in our house I could not see him straight on to get a better height estimate). If this person happens to be the son of one of our blog readers or community members, I cannot stress enough that you might want to have a chat with him about his "sales" skills. The best part of it all is we have a sign right next to our door which clearly reads, "no soliciting". It was the first time in a long time I felt unsafe in our own neighborhood.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
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Interesting, in a scary kinda sorta way. I wish you would've seen the cards. I think you should've call the police and let them know about them. I know I will next time. 8 pm is just too late and that was some weird dialog.
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