Warning over bogus salesman (From York Press)
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Warning over bogus salesman
10:40am Saturday 20th March 2010 in
POLICE are warning members of the public to be on their guard against door-to-door salespeople claiming to be from the Probation Service.
Officers have received a number of calls from residents across the city reporting that men have called at their door and tried to sell household items such as tea-towels and dusters. PC Amy Littlejohns of York Safer Neighbourhood Team, said: “The Probation Service have not authorised such a scheme and we advise residents not to be taken in by the salesmen.”
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Mister Sheen
says...
2:34pm Sat 20 Mar 10
King Edward
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3:59pm Sat 20 Mar 10
Mister Sheen wrote:In the 70s it was common for ex- offenders to sell door to door as part of their rehabilitation, overseen by the Probation Service, selling pegbags, dusters and suchlike manufactured in prisons.
Why would members of the probation service be selling such household items???
Silver
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8:19pm Sun 21 Mar 10
Although I should talk
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King Edward says...
12:02pm Sat 20 Mar 10