door to door knocking thing (1 Viewer)

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hey, this happened to me today

um, this bloke came around to our neighbourhood saying that they paint out number signs on the gutter so that at night, if ambulance needed to find our number, its visible

the cost for it was 50bucks or something,but i declined the offer cos we already have something similiar done, i so told him i'm not interested

he kept saying "nah get it done you need to blah blah blah" so i just said we will do it in the upcoming wks with my own stuff, cos he was just full rude

and then he just said

"yeah mate watever, i'll come back in 4wks time and see how you go"

can that last sentence, along with his manner/behaviour, be considered as a threat to my security?

 

[Not-That-Bright]

Yep for sure that's assault

 

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For criminal assault you have to to prove an apprehension of fear of harm. So I don't think that you could get him charged with assualt.

Rudeness and bad manners are not criminal offences.

You can get him in stalking if it can be proved that he had an intention to stalk you. Proved objectively.

well i do feel a sense of insecurity when he said it, cos afterall he knows where i live, and the fact that his manner and behaviour were rather, let just say, rude

ahh, but the thing is, if he said that without that kind of behaviour , then i might not have "scared"

 

[Newbie]

was he a council representative or just some random?

sounds like a scammer
50 bucks to paint some numbers....gg

 

[MoonlightSonata]

he kept saying "nah get it done you need to blah blah blah" so i just said we will do it in the upcoming wks with my own stuff, cos he was just full rude

and then he just said

"yeah mate watever, i'll come back in 4wks time and see how you go"

can that last sentence, along with his manner/behaviour, be considered as a threat to my security?

No. Not unless there was any accompanying body language or actions which suggested he might harm you. It is quite clear, though he was rude, that he meant to come back in 4 weeks to see if you had done what you said. Hardly threatening


50 bucks for a painted number, what a rip off!

 

[xeuyrawp]

50 bucks for a painted number, what a rip off!

I had exactly the same thing happen to my family- some guy (assumedly contracted by the council) doorknocking to ask about spray painting. He said it costs 30$, but the paint is there to stay. He was a real jerk to my mum, and she slammed the door on him.

Anyway, I decided to profit, and walked up my street saying I'd do the spray painting for 5$ per house, considering it is a cool thing for you to have, and a lot of the houses on my street have long driveways so it's hard to see the number. I said that "although I don't use 'the best spraypaint', if it is unreadable in a year, I'll do it again for free"... I got 17 houses, and it took me one afternoon, with the cutting out and then the spraying two layers.

But yeah, those contracted by the council can be real jerks.

 

[santaslayer]

hey, this happened to me today

um, this bloke came around to our neighbourhood saying that they paint out number signs on the gutter so that at night, if ambulance needed to find our number, its visible

the cost for it was 50bucks or something,but i declined the offer cos we already have something similiar done, i so told him i'm not interested

he kept saying "nah get it done you need to blah blah blah" so i just said we will do it in the upcoming wks with my own stuff, cos he was just full rude

and then he just said

"yeah mate watever, i'll come back in 4wks time and see how you go"

can that last sentence, along with his manner/behaviour, be considered as a threat to my security?

You can always tell him/her that they aren't welcomed and to leave the premisis immediately or you'll call the police. If he doesn't, it's pretty much automatic trespass.

 

[theone123]

hey, this happened to me today

um, this bloke came around to our neighbourhood saying that they paint out number signs on the gutter so that at night, if ambulance needed to find our number, its visible

the cost for it was 50bucks or something,but i declined the offer cos we already have something similiar done, i so told him i'm not interested

he kept saying "nah get it done you need to blah blah blah" so i just said we will do it in the upcoming wks with my own stuff, cos he was just full rude

and then he just said

"yeah mate watever, i'll come back in 4wks time and see how you go"

can that last sentence, along with his manner/behaviour, be considered as a threat to my security?

if you entered into a contract, you can recind the contract under due influence from duress, so nothing you got to be afraid of