I think what you just did was illegal, sir.

[afangirlsdream]

For the last two months in Ohio we've been getting almost daily calls from different companies offering to send someone out for a free estimate of our hail damage. The range of annoying to polite on the telemarketing calls has been manageable even if I'm tired of hearing their opening spiels. We've also gotten quite a few (15 that I've been home

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[herloved_beauty]

What the FUCK. Maybe funny if you do it to your friends? Not quite so funny in your job. Here's hoping your neighbors at least caught the company he works for.

[afangirlsdream]

Neighbors did, so I've got a call into his company.

[author_by_night]

Yeah, if the neighbors got the name, have them complain. I'd also check online and see if anyone's mentioned it on Facebook or local websites or what have you.

You know what really upsets me? The fact that he might end up (hopefully unknowingly) targeting someone very vulnerable and putting them in an even worse position than the one he put you in. A child or someone with dementia, for instance, might not immediately understand that it was a ruse to get them to open the door. Hopefully they would have the decency not to take advantage of someone clearly not catching on, but if they'd go this far, who knows. :/

[ex_38621]

This upsets me as well :(

[afangirlsdream]

They did and I have.

Since his uniform consisted of just a polo shirt I'd hope nobody would be taken by the ruse, but I can imagine him giving quite a few people a scare. My mother has dementia via early onset Alzheimer's and I know if the 'police' came banging at her door she'd be able to verify who they were but she's very very high functioning for how much damage she's gotten.

[d_in_colorado]

Isn't impersonating the police against the law? Even if for a "just kidding" moment?

[op_tech_glitch]

My roommate and I used to answer the phone "[name of town we lived in] Police".

If there was ever a problem with that the real po-po's were more than welcome to ring us up and tell us so. (Actually I think what we did was legal, it's just out on the street where someone might actually think you were or something that isn't.)

[theflyers]

I'd think that was just as OK as say "dressing up" as a cop for a costume party. Since you're not trying to assert authority over someone under the guise of being the police, like say pounding on the door and demanding a person open their door to the "police".

I'm the most unlawyer of them all but that's my limited understanding of "impersonating a police officer".

[prawn_toast]

i would have found it hard not to lose my temper with that guy, what a shitty move just to try and sell you something.

[naomijameston]

Agreed! I would have flipped my shit at him!

[afangirlsdream]

I was ranting and screaming to the husband and mama about it - at the time I was just praying my stuff was okay though I'm sure the look I gave him and how fast he scurried off my porch conveyed my mood.

[nverland]

And so now you pick up the phone, you contact the local police department, and you report it. Little gerbil deserves the trip to the station and the piddle scared out of him. you aren't the only one he's doing that to. And while you have a mess that was hopefully salvageable, some little old person can have a heart attack over that stupidity.

[prawn_toast]

i read this in the voice of aragorn

[nverland]

*G*

[sevenday]

... I have trouble imagining Aragorn saying the word "gerbil."