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    • CommentAuthorTabbie
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    A woman knocked on my door and introduced herself as Mrs Williams from down the road. She said she’d locked herself out and needed money to get to work. I gave her some money (£6.20). She said her husband Steve would drop it round later. Steve never came. Should I call Crimewatch? Or would they just laugh in my foolish, trusting face?
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    Keep us posted whether Steve turns up. What did she look like?

    By the way, I need ten pounds to keep the servers on. David will pay you back when he gets in.
    • CommentAuthorgeoff
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    Was she really a man? They often are apparently!

    She/he might pop round again in a week or so to ask for some more.

    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008 edited
     
    @ Andy - do you really live with David or was that just artistic licence?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    Oh no, how horrid.

    Was is Shirley Williams?

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    Drag tricksters? Wigs from PAK?
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008 edited
     

    Yay. 3 for £10 for a £18.60 return - not bad eh?

    • CommentAuthordominic
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    Do they do large sizes? Just wondering, as I know someone who has a large head.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    You've seen the photos:

    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    I knew it! Ah - the intrigue!
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    That's strange, I also know someone with a large head.

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    Most wigs are adjustable I think.

    • CommentAuthorTabbie
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    She looked pleasant and normal, in nice boots and a chunky Monsoon style skirt. Now I know where she gets the money to buy her nice boots. Would anyone else have been so stupid as to give her money?
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    HELLO TABBIE
    MY NAME IS KWANKIE AKEYOBOA. MY FATHER WAS A RICH GOLD BARON IN ZIMBABWE. HE HAS BEEN THROWN IN JAIL FOR SUPPORTING THE OPPOSITION PARTY. THROUGH VARIOUS CONTACTS, YOUR NAME HAS APPEARED TO ME AS THE BEST PERSON TO HELP IN THIS SITUATION. I REQUIRE £6.20 SENT IMMEDIATELY TO THIS ADDRESS SO I CAN CATCH THE BUS TO TRANSFER MONEY INTO A SWISS BANK ACCOUNT. I WILL MAKE SURE YOU ARE REWARDED WITH $3000000.
    YOURS
    "WANKY"
    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    Yes. Nearly a year ago she knocked on the door with a sob story that she had just moved into a flat ( there was a to let sign outside ) and needed to top up the electricity and her baby was ill. Gave her some money and immediately felt very stupid ( and angry ).
    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    No but I never carry cash.

    • CommentAuthorTabbie
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    @Giles - when you say "she", do you mean Mrs Williams? Was she wearing something chunky?
    • CommentAuthorTabbie
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    @Pete - that is well funny. But I'll never trust anyone again. I feel like part of me has died.
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    We forget that the sarcastic remark "Well, it's on the Internet so it MUST be true" also has a real life opposite.
    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    @Tabbie, it was about 9-10 months ago so the weather wasn't as bad as now. I can't remember her name but she had shortish straight black hair and glasses - hardly enough for Crimewatch to go on.
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     
    @Katiejane
    Officially, it's called a Love Nest
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    You really can't win here. If I had locked myself out of the house, I might think of going to a neighbour to borrow a couple quid. I'd like to think that they wouldn't slam the door in my face.

    If you give the person money, then you're a sucker. If you don't, then you are a cheap bastard who doesn't care for his fellow man.

    In the ideal world, we'd all know our neighbours at least well enough to recognise them. However, having lived in this flat for 6 years, I only know the girl who lives beneath us.

    On a slightly different topic, does anyone else get annoyed when a courier leave your parcel with a neighbour? He might as well be handing it to a random stranger in the street. We had some squatters living next door for a while. The courier gave them my Amazon order. Three days later, one of the squatters handed it to my downstairs neighbour, who gave it to me. It had been torn open. I guess they didn't want a book of Factory Records cover art.
    • CommentAuthorBeek
    • CommentTimeMar 26th 2008
     

    Back to Tabbie, a few years ago I opened the door to a similar tale (from a bloke) who knocked at my door (living on Stonenest St at the time) it was early evening and he claimed to live round the corner with his sister, and needed to get to hospital to see his son, and yet it didn't quite ring true... why would you knock on a random door on the next street... I think he tried it again about 3 years later... to no avail!

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     

    When this happened to me (a few years back), the thing that really threw them was when I offered support in a non-cash way. "Can I make a phone call for you?" quickly flushes out the chancers from the genuine requests.

    I was also once stopped by a chap asking for money to get to Heathrow. He said he urgently needed a train fare in order to get his flight. He then showed me his flight details. The fact that his "ticket" was for Stansted didn't seem to bother him. The bigger flaw in his plan was that we were standing on a Piccadilly line platform, so I suggested he just get on the next train.

    • CommentAuthorjandb
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    A few years ago, we had a visit from a woman who claimed to have locked herself out and needed money for a taxi to get to work - quite well dressed and plausible. She claimed to live "just round the corner" in Victoria Rd. - but just far enough away for me not to know the names of the people she claimed were her neighbours.

    She turned up again a few months ago with a different story.
    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     

    Shall we use cameraphones to identify this person for next time?

    • CommentAuthorGiles
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    That's exactly what I thought after she came round - I'll let you have the money if you let me take your photo ( and show me into your flat and leave me your passport etc etc ). If you're genuine you shouldn't have an issue, if not your picture's going to the Police.
    • CommentAuthorkatiejane
    • CommentTimeMar 27th 2008
     
    A bit ago, in Highcroft Road, a young woman rang our doorbell and asked me to lend her some money for some milk and nappies for her baby. I had a spare pint and reckoned our babies were a similar size, so offered her both. Funny - she didn't want to know.

    We're always being tapped up nowadays for money by our neighbours. It comes with the (council estate) territory.
    • CommentAuthornaomi
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2008
     
    Me too, me too! She said she lived round the corner at no. 70 and that she needed a tenner to pay the cab, i refused. A few months later she came back with the same story except she said she lived at no. 72. Duuurrr! Needless to say I closed the door.
    • CommentAuthorPete
    • CommentTimeMar 28th 2008
     
    Having just watched There Will Be Blood, I can't help but feel that the only way to deal with people coming to your house and asking for money is to shout "DRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINAGE! I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!" at them. Then close the door. Or throw bowling balls at them for extra authenticity.
    • CommentAuthorkrazykappa
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     
    I've never had someone come to my house, but I was ripped off once while visiting San Francisco. We must have reaked of tourism, because he spotted us immediately. Mind you, I was a young stupid college student. Still...

    He told us that a bunch of rock stars were in town to do some charity concert for South Africa...God, the more I say, the stupider I feel. Needless to say, I was a naive 18 year old.
    • CommentAuthorkrazykappa
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2008
     
    PS. Is this a common occurance, to have people knocking on your doors for money?
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeApr 1st 2008
     

    I've been ripped off on Holloway Road once for a lot more than £6.20 so have now developed a skill to spot these people a mile away.

    I have seen this woman operating regularly in the area. Fairbridge Road, Tollington Park, Shaftesbury Road and more.

    • CommentAuthoremily
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2008
     
    I gave this old bloke with a zimmer frame outside Tesco £20 to get back to southampton where he lived (He tried to explain how he'd ended up on STR, something to do with christians, that i didn't understand).

    He went off with a piece of paper with my address on promising that he could post back the next week, but i never received it. I was fairly convinced i would at the time though.

    I rather hope he was a octogenarian fraudster, rather than he was so penniless he couldn't send it back, or he popped his clogs old the national express home.
    • CommentAuthorgeoff
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2008
     

    I think the level of confidence tricksters goes hand in hand with the number of crack houses around. When the police close them down, the problem diminishes.

    Didn't stop my father-in-law giving a bloke called Philippa £20 and then going to the cashpoint to get more!

    • CommentAuthortosscat
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2008
     

    I met a Dutch girl with inflatable shoes the other day.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2008
     

    Has she, since then, and it's a sad story, popped her clogs?

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2008
     

    I was dressed as an old bloke the other week outside Tesco (zimmer frame and everything) and I had this ace story about southampton, a spiritualist church and concorde and some reindeer.

    Anyway, a couple of people fell for it. One even gave me twenty quid

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeApr 19th 2008
     

    Had a woman knock this afternoon who clamed to live up the road. Haggard looking in her 40s, black - not somebody I've ever seen. Managed to get me to tell her my name evn though I told mysef not to! She asked for £8.50 for 45 minutes andmentionedher tall husband who wears glasses in her back story.

    I claimed to have no change - hoorah!

    • CommentAuthorgranville
    • CommentTimeApr 20th 2008
     
    £8.50? Crack must be getting cheaper!
    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    She knocked again last night, just after half past midnight.

    I opened the door (expecting a drunken girlfriend) and saw this woman, who started to repeat her spiel ad verbatim. Then it dawned on her she recognised me and had knocked there before. I just said, "I'm not interested, you've knocked here before" and shut the door.

    • CommentAuthorandy
    • CommentTimeApr 28th 2008
     

    You should give her a loyalty card, caffe nero style.

    Knock five times and get a cup of coffee, something like that.

    • CommentAuthormatt
    • CommentTimeMay 6th 2008
     

    She's not getting a bean from me!

    (sorry)

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