TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46   
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   On 22 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...   
    AA> Yesterday I got a flashback to the past when a deaf/dumb fellow     
    AA> walked into my shop.  I didn't think the deaf/dumb tactic was a     
    AA> thing anymore.   
      
   Anything and everything can be used as a tactic.  Beyond the dozens of   
   Homeless Veterans I see on the corners, a new 'favorite' of mine are these   
   Gentlemen with signs saying "Too Honest to Steal, Too Ugly to be a Gigalo."    
    AA> The last time this sort of thing happend was over 8 years ago. A     
    AA> couple of singers with their guitars came into my shop,     
    AA> accompanying an apparrently a deaf girl. The premise was that my     
    AA> dollars would help pay for her livelyhood, or act as a tip for     
    AA> their wonderful unsolicited music, or something. At first I     
    AA> thought that maybe someone was delivering a singing telegram.     
    AA> But the request to pay for the performance combined with the     
    AA> begging really pissed me off more than anything.   
    AA>    
      
   Don't you have legal options to handle unwelcomed solucitations in your   
   establishment?   
      
    AA> At times like this I wish I could brandish my Crocadile Dundee     
    AA> "you call that a knife?" machette, or call "Tiny", my doberman     
    AA> with a spiked collar, to escort these types out the door.   
      
   Actually, Dundee's knifecwas more like a Bowie knife.   
      
   I could see not having a d9g in a bookstore, but some means of self defense   
   should be aporoprriate.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)   
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