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Hammock Parties · 06-28-2006, 08:51 PM

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=912212006

Knock, knock, who's there? No Jehovah's Witnesses or double-glazing salesmen
FRANK URQUHART

DOOR-to-door salesmen and Jehovah's Witnesses have been hit with a council ban in the first initiative of its kind in Scotland to protect residents from unwelcome cold callers.

Angus Council has joined forces with Tayside Police and Neighbourhood Watch to set up six "no cold-calling zones" throughout the area, with plans for more than 100 eventually.

Doorstep cold-calling is often used as a smokescreen by criminals to prey on vulnerable households, particularly the elderly.

Pilot schemes, where signs and window stickers warned off would-be door-to-door sellers, significantly reduced general crime figures in the area, according to council research.

Placards, warning uninvited representatives that they are entering a "no cold-calling area", have been attached to neighbourhood watch signs in the six zones. Window stickers are also being used to warn potential callers they are not welcome.

However, party canvassers calling at houses during local government, Westminster and Holyrood elections, have been excluded from the scheme.

Chief Supt Bill Harkins, the divisional commander with Tayside Police, said: "Tayside Police is fully committed to and supports any initiative that will assist in the reduction of crime and the fear of crime within our area. Doorstep crime often involves the elderly or vulnerable members of our community."

Karen Kelly, the chair of neighbourhood watch in Angus, said: "The Angus executive neighbourhood watch committee all agreed that all watch areas in Angus should become 'no cold-calling areas'.

"Nobody wants bogus callers or pushy salespeople and we think this is a positive step to prevent unwanted callers."

A spokeswoman for Angus Council said research had revealed residents unanimously supported the introduction of "no cold-calling zones". She said: "The scheme is about people not approaching anyone's house without a prior arrangement. It is an advisory scheme and is not enforceable and we are just inviting people to co-operate.

"The scheme will not apply to political party canvassers during local and national government elections. The scheme is to stop doorstep selling and to deter those that are coming to give you their sales pitch."

She added: "There are plans for 118 zones to be set up across the county, covering neighbourhood watch areas. This will be the largest number of 'no cold-calling zones' in the UK. It builds on the work carried out in the county to drive out rogue doorstep sellers."

The new "no cold-calling zones" in Angus are being supported by BT, which has donated £3,000 to the campaign.

Trading Standards Institute research has found 96 per cent of people do not want salespeople calling at their door, while 25 per cent reported having a bad experience with a cold caller in the 24 months prior to the survey.

Brendan Dick, BT Scotland's national manager, said: "Congratulations to Angus for its wholehearted approach. People should not have to put up with uninvited intrusion into their homes or the mis-selling of services and we are very happy to support this initiative."

**pr_capone** · 06-29-2006, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Moooo

Lets take it easy on the French... They're annoying, rude, and couldn't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, even if they had a knife, but they did help us out in the Revolutionary War when no one else would...

We kinda HAVE to be nice to them...

Moooo

I must disagree.

The were only 2 reasons that the French even became involved in the Revolutionary war.

#1 - they hated the living piss out of england

#2 - they thought they could have say in how our government was run if they helped us out.

when the US told them to go **** themselves, they imposed a ban on the US and began seizing any and all US ships they could find. They did everything short of declaring war on us.... prolly because they looked at their own history in war and decided that open war would not be prudent.

At least this is what I learned in my college U.S. History class.... taught by a French Canadian of all people.

**Rausch** · 06-29-2006, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Moooo

That's fine... I was always under the impression every country in the Allied forces still owes us money for WW2 except for Finland...

Moooo

They do.

But they all also were at least willing to FIGHT. France laid down like a dog tired of getting kicked.

The French Resistance was a joke and a PR stunt...

Moooo · 06-29-2006, 12:17 AM

Wow, I think I just got owned, capone style... I didn't know that!

Well, I guess in that case we don't have to be nice to them, but I still think its a good idea to be nice to anyone with a nuke, no matter how involved in the UN the two countries involed may be.

Moooo

Moooo · 06-29-2006, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Rausch

They do.

But they all also were at least willing to FIGHT. France laid down like a dog tired of getting kicked.

The French Resistance was a joke and a PR stunt...

PR Stunt... lol that's great!

I thn we need look no farther than the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to see they're lovers and not fighters.

If one person from every country in the world were in a bar, the French guy would be the one in the center of the room, drunk off wine, trying to mack on the ladies, one upping everyone else. Then when everyone else gets pissed, he'd be all like, "I don't wanna fight, its so savage!"

Moooo

**Rausch** · 06-29-2006, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moooo

Well, I guess in that case we don't have to be nice to them, but I still think its a good idea to be nice to anyone with a nuke, no matter how involved in the UN the two countries involed may be.

Moooo

Unless you've had an operational missle defense shield for 20 years.

And the frogs aren't anywhere stupid enough to ever consider fighting a country willing to fight back. Let alone us.

Hell, they can't even control their own population.

**luv** · 06-29-2006, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Moooo

PR Stunt... lol that's great!

I thn we need look no farther than the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to see they're lovers and not fighters.

If one person from every country in the world were in a bar, the French guy would be the one in the center of the room, drunk off wine, trying to mack on the ladies, one upping everyone else. Then when everyone else gets pissed, he'd be all like, "I don't wanna fight, its so savage!"

Moooo

Mack on the ladies? I was thinking maybe the gay one.

Moooo · 06-29-2006, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

Mack on the ladies? I was thinking maybe the gay one.

Wow, you really do hate them. It was just a play on the classic stereotype, that's all... In my little imaginative world-bar, I foresaw him getting some off the Italian chick, only to have her go and get some from the Greek guy later that night...

Moooo

**luv** · 06-29-2006, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Moooo

Wow, you really do hate them. It was just a play on the classic stereotype, that's all... In my little imaginative world-bar, I foresaw him getting some off the Italian chick, only to have her go and get some from the Greek guy later that night...

Moooo

Nothing to do with hate. French guys remind me of pretty boys, and pretty boys remind me of gay guys.

**pr_capone** · 06-29-2006, 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rausch

Unless you've had an operational missle defense shield for 20 years.

And the frogs aren't anywhere stupid enough to ever consider fighting a country willing to fight back. Let alone us.

Hell, they can't even control their own population.

Hell... the only war they have ever fought in and won without outside assistance was the French Revolutionary was in 1789... mostly because the opponent was also French.

**Rausch** · 06-29-2006, 12:29 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

Nothing to do with hate. French guys remind me of pretty boys, and pretty boys remind me of gay guys.

The frogs are pretty much gay men without any hygiene or taste...

**luv** · 06-29-2006, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Rausch

The frogs are pretty much gay men without any hygiene or taste...

So that's why French women don't shave their pits. Only way to attract a guy. It all makes sense now.

Moooo · 06-29-2006, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

Nothing to do with hate. French guys remind me of pretty boys, and pretty boys remind me of gay guys.

The Greek guy would be Bi, but other than that sexual affiliation hadn't been factored in. I see the british as being more feminine than the french, IMO. I think for us bullet-headed Americans we tend to look at Europeans in general as being feminine.

I see America hitting on the Brazilian chick all night long, only to settle for the Canadian chick about 5 minutes before closing time. He also almost gets kicked out for getting into a fight with Germany, but since Germany started it, they're the only ones who do.

Moooo

Miles · 06-29-2006, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

So that's why French women don't shave their pits. Only way to attract a guy. It all makes sense now.

The hygiene stuff really isn't an issue anymore. It just took them a while to catch on.

**pr_capone** · 06-29-2006, 12:35 AM

wow..... this thread is a LONG way away from where it started. lol

And yes.... take it from someone who took class with a Frenchman.... hygene is STILL an issue.

**Rausch** · 06-29-2006, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moooo

I see America hitting on the Brazilian chick all night long, only to settle for the Canadian chick about 5 minutes before closing time. He also almost gets kicked out for getting into a fight with Germany, but since Germany started it, they're the only ones who do.

Moooo

Almost perfect.

But there's no way America could be drunk enough to bang a french Canadian...

06-28-2006, 08:51 PM
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