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Spammers, cold callers and those that accosts you

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  • MothballsWallet
    MothballsWallet Posts: 15,895 Forumite
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    fadetogrey - yes, I have, and it's HEAP ammo. That's why yours is so expensive - you're buying the Anti-Tank stuff... :D
  • patman99
    patman99 Posts: 8,532 Forumite
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    Colchester solved the problem of chuggers giving-out flyers. They use anti-littering laws to require leafleters to have a permit. Unfortuanately for the chuggers (and local tradesmen) are always unsuccessful with their applications.
    Never Knowingly Understood.

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  • Dave_C_2
    Dave_C_2 Posts: 1,827 Forumite
    I now take the view that they started it!

    If somebody disturbs my privacy because they can't read the "No cold Callers" they only have themselves to blame when I give them verbal abuse. Same goes for telesales people who ignore my TPS registration and ring me.

    But the most annoying thing is bloody charity bags - now almost daily.

    Dave
  • fluffnutter
    fluffnutter Posts: 23,179 Forumite
    Dave_C wrote: »
    But the most annoying thing is bloody charity bags - now almost daily.

    Dave

    Bin liners. Or for taking stuff to genuine charity shops. They're more useful than a lot of stuff that comes through the door!
    "Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.
  • WhiteHorse
    WhiteHorse Posts: 2,492 Forumite
    50 calibre chain gun with HEAP (High-Explosive, Anti-Personnel) ammunition. Works a treat on chuggers.
    I'd go with the flamethrower option myself (set to 'toast' rather than 'incinerate'). The others find the screams distracting.
    "Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracy
    seeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"
    Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.
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