Doorstep seller outburst leads to 999 call


Yesterday I heard someone knock very hard on the front door, went to answer it and was confronted by a salesman holding out a flier for double-glazing and conservatories. “No, sorry. I’m not interested but thank you,” I told him, before he had a chance to start his scripted sales pitch.

We get these unsolicited visitors coming round our street at least once a week. It’s tiresome and annoying. But I was entirely courteous, and so was taken by surprise when he kicked the front door and started effing and blinding. I called 999 and spoke to the police.

I gave them a very good description (the most notable bit of which was ‘orange skin from spending too much time on a sunbed’) and was told that a police car would be sent to patrol the area to see if the man could be caught. I thought, as most would these days, yeah, whatever, we’ll see… But, to the credit of the local police, an officer arrived about fifteen minutes later to tell me the man had been apprehended and cautioned for his behaviour.

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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

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