Subj : Re: deaf and dumb
To : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Fri Jan 22 2021 09:32 am
On 22 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...
AA> Yesterday I got a flashback to the past when a deaf/dumb fellow
AA> walked into my shop. I didn't think the deaf/dumb tactic was a
AA> thing anymore.
Anything and everything can be used as a tactic. Beyond the dozens of
Homeless Veterans I see on the corners, a new 'favorite' of mine are these
Gentlemen with signs saying "Too Honest to Steal, Too Ugly to be a Gigalo."
AA> The last time this sort of thing happend was over 8 years ago. A
AA> couple of singers with their guitars came into my shop,
AA> accompanying an apparrently a deaf girl. The premise was that my
AA> dollars would help pay for her livelyhood, or act as a tip for
AA> their wonderful unsolicited music, or something. At first I
AA> thought that maybe someone was delivering a singing telegram.
AA> But the request to pay for the performance combined with the
AA> begging really pissed me off more than anything.
AA>
Don't you have legal options to handle unwelcomed solucitations in your
establishment?
AA> At times like this I wish I could brandish my Crocadile Dundee
AA> "you call that a knife?" machette, or call "Tiny", my doberman
AA> with a spiked collar, to escort these types out the door.
Actually, Dundee's knifecwas more like a Bowie knife.
I could see not having a d9g in a bookstore, but some means of self defense
should be aporoprriate.
