When I was gadding about in the woods at Wharnecliff yesterday, Mrs Brant was at home.
Knock at door, and "very imposing" "convicted drug dealer" selling tumble drier balls for tenner a pair.
Frankly terrified by his demeanor, balls were purchased and my laughs of "they're a fiver at Aldi this week" haven't done down well.
Claimed he was working for "Working Chance" - but googling suggests this is a London only project?
Rip off/scam/something more sinister?
There's this service called 'The Police', for when you're not sure about stuff/feel threatened.. 
Pardon my ignorance, but what are tumble drier balls?
Are they the people that give you a crime number when you get burgled so you can claim on the insurance, but not the ones that actually go and find the theiving little shits that stole stuff from your house?
Or are they the ones that like stopping people for having a dirty number plate?
seen this before in manchester
a call to the local bobbies would put your mind at ease/catch the little scroats
Pardon my ignorance, but what are tumble drier balls?
*reads posts*
*does maths*
*goes aldi and buys up stock of tumble dryer balls.....and some chargrilled peppers as i have run out*
*puts on threatening demeanour and hits the streets*
*beats credit crunch*
There's this service called 'The Police', for when you're not sure about stuff/feel threatened..
So what you ask them to wait whilst you call the police or do your ring the Police and say someone is selling Tumble Dryer balls in the area. I bet they send the fuzz straight around. 
A firm word- dont engage in conversation with such door to door sellers. If the seller learns the home owner is alone through questioning what happens? sounds awful but dont enter into a dialogue- a firm no thank you with a smile suffices.
set of bombers kept by the door
could be distraction burglary, someone keeps you at the front door whilst an accomplice tries the back door. we've had the 'singing fool' one of these where a pikey pretends to be mental by singing at the front door. good luck to them trying to sneak quietly up our assault course of a side passage
Cold calls are getting worse here!
Been off work all this week and so far had:
Guy looking for window cleaning work
Two from the utilities, all smiley and annoying
Two charities which I have never heard of?
Kids trying to sell nicked razor blades & batteries!
Then Thr. night to top it off, two gorillas/bailiff trying to take my neighbours car (she parks it on our drive)!
Think that must be a record!
When I was a cop in Nottingham we used to get calls to this sort of thing quite regularly. They were taken pretty seriously and we would usually go straight out to try and catch up with the 'salesman' and see what they were up to. I've had an 80-something year old bloke sat in his house in tears after a visit from f'ers like that who took a few hundred quid off him.
Had a chap at the door some years ago, was selling dusters and tea towels, but he did have ID to show.
He then proceeded to ask 'If my dad was in'
I was 24 at the time.
My housemate couldn't control his laughter. Bastid.
He then proceeded to ask 'If my dad was in'
same thing the singing fool asked my wife, she's thirty something
ski, we've had more:
Utilities- energy sales
Roof repair sellers
Insurance salesman
Small catalogue sellers for bizarre kitchen products.
Various noddy Charities
Kids wanting to wash my car
Someone wondering if I would take CASH to take away our other car away for scrap
Daily takeaway menu's - how many takeaways can there be in the area? Some of them are over 5miles away. Madness.
I've now put a small handwritten sign on the door basically saying **** off or be smacked.
We have a Mormon church round the corner from us but strangely we have never had missionaries calling round.
Cats don't $hit in their own back yard?
Funniest for me though was a energy salesman threatening a neighbour. Neighbour said something along the lines of go away we dont want your type here and the salesman shouting come out and I will smack you in the face. Neighbour is in his late 60's. Nice!
I get dodgy pikies selling dishcloths, and sometimes rugs, I never let them see into my place when I open the door. Tell your misses to try and not look intimidated and give them a firm yet polite NO THANKS.
hora, you must live round the corner from me 
My Nan once got fleeced for £200 by someone claiming to clean her windows.
They even had the balls to come back latter asking for more money!
She was so upset about it, she did not tell anyone for months!
"Tumble Drier balls" . . . . sounds like a nasty thing to catch . . . .
some shady looking types caught me off guard yesterday (normally i dont open the door without looking out the window to check its not "them"), trying to sell me God.
i felt intimidated.
Mrs B should put it down to experience and move on, or at least, thats what I would do.
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