"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:45:46 -0400, Nancy Young
> > wrote:
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>> Some young boy was going door to door, selling stuff for
>> school. This was maybe ... 40 miles from me or so. Another
>> kid, older, lured him into the house and it didn't end
>> well. Big uproar.
>
> The responsible organizations emphasize that kids should never go door
> to door, selling to strangers.
>
We haven't had any for a long time. We had one after we moved in who was
selling magazines. The whole spiel sounded phony. And a few times we got
the bogus candy sellers. I don't know if you got those in your area but
they've been around here for years. Some unscrupulous adult buys a bunch of
candy, often off-brands and stale and then lures kids into selling it,
giving them the name of some bogus charity. The adult follows the kid
around to make sure that they sell and doesn't let up on them until the
candy is all gone. Then they grab the money and run. The kid never gets a
dime but they often get an earful after some buyer tastes the bad candy and
chases after them trying to get their money back.