Chuggers

qetu1357

I've never had grief from a "chugger". Perhaps as I always treat them with respect?

However if you get grief from a chugger when you are polite complain

a) to the charity
b) to the local authority
c) to the police

Curryking

cyberbob wrote: »

If you think people deserve abuse that says far more about you than them.

If your unable to just walk past and politely say no thanks that's a bit pathetic really.

I truely believe they deserve the abuse they get and more. Why? Because I have been obstructed, followed down the road, guilt tripped, grabbed, humiliated in public, and generally harassed by them. I complained to the police and local authority who did nothing so why not deal out some justice or at least give what you get. If you just meekly accept it without standing up for yourself, it justifies them carrying on abusing people.

mjm3346

cyberbob wrote: »

If you think people deserve abuse that says far more about you than them.

If your unable to just walk past and politely say no thanks that's a bit pathetic really.

You may be happy to be bothered and spend time dealing with them I am not.
If they wish to stand around and wait for people to approach them that is fine but they should not have any right to make an unsolicited approach to people in the street.
To be totally clear I think they more than deserve any level of abuse they get, they are no better than vermin and it is unfortunate they cannot legally be dealt with as such.

Curryking

qetu1357 wrote: »

I've never had grief from a "chugger". Perhaps as I always treat them with respect?

However if you get grief from a chugger when you are polite complain

a) to the charity
b) to the local authority
c) to the police

no, as from my previous post, they get what they deserve and more in my opinion. If you meekly accept it and not give what you get, the bully will get worse and infact it shows that its acceptable to behave in this way.

Secondly, it is important to first contact the police, then the local authority, then your local MP and finally the charity. The charity will try to hush it up and keep the issue inhouse in order to not make it public which would damage their reputation....deservidly so.

deanos

dizziblonde

One came down our street FOUR times yesterday - just to make sure he'd fully annoyed everyone. Last ring on the doorbell was 9pm at night. Ridiculous.

kev.s

Dreamnine wrote: »

but I have some sympathy for street beggars.

which means your just as naive, most of these "beggars" have houses cars and get taxi's to their pitch.

GillsMan7

I just tell chuggers the truth: sorry, I don't give to charity. Normally sees them leave me alone. No need to be clever or abusive, just tell them you don't want to donate to them and go on your way. Quite why anyone would give their bank details out to a stranger on the street is beyond me anyway.

Norant

bosseyed wrote: »

I don't see why so many people feel the urge to be abusive or 'clever' with these people. I'm annoyed by Chuggers much like most normal people, but a simply 'Sorry I don't have time' and just walk straight past solves any issue they may present.

No need to tell them to f**k off or set your bulldog on them or drop them to the floor with a punch to the nose.

Hello Bosseyed.

I kind of agree with you,and if that is all it took with some of these people then there would be no need to be impolite to some of them,if when you walked past and you told them that you were not interested and they left you alone,all well and good.

However in real life it simply does not occur all the time,people have said to these pests no thankyou only to be followed and tried to be persueded,how long would you leave it until you have had enough of these people before you told the impolitely to go away.

Not only that you manage to dodge one,only to find that twenty yards down the high street there is another from the same charity trying to reel you in,you end up walking the whole lenght of the high street repeating no thankyou.

Im all for being polite to people,but there is a point where politness gets you nowhere and you have to be a little harsh to get on with your own valuable business.

bargainbetty

I apologise for those who may have read my story on another thread, but I am almost proud of it.

We have a local Catholic Mission who doorstep all the local businesses asking for money. Our lads used to get guilt tripped by the nuns into handing over money, only to try to reclaim it through petty cash. The last time they were here, I politely informed them that we were not giving corporate donations anymore, but they could leave a leaflet and if anyone wished to donate directly, they would.

The next day, the nuns returned, asking for the collection we had promised. I pointed out that we had not promised a collection, only to display their leaflet on our noticeboard. The nun got quite irate, and told me that refusing to help the 'little children' was very unchristian of me. I pointed out that I am not Christian and that, frankly, quite a few Catholic priests had been caught doing somewhat unchristian things to children of late.

I'm going to hell, apparently.

Chuggers are met with a polite 'no thanks', followed by 'Seriously, I'm not interested' for the persistent ones, and the really annoying ones get 'If no doesn't work, does 'please f**k off' make my point?'