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Woman raped by a magazine salesman

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Acanthus said:
1/350,000,000

Yes, you are paranoid if you live your life by sensationalist news articles.
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you should read the link posted above

In the eight months the Press investigated door-to-door magazine sales across the country, the industry has seen at least three murders, one rape, two attempted rapes, one stabbing, one attempted murder, one vehicle fatality and one attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl.
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nick1985 said:
Yes Acanthus, this is the 1st and only time something like this has ever happened. EVER.

Great post.
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That is one case. Yeah, it happens more often... but ffs if you sit and read the sensationalist news all day you'll be convinced that its hell on earth rather than enjoying your damn life.
 
Acanthus said:
That is one case. Yeah, it happens more often
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You certainly implied it doesnt happen more often with your other post where you implied this has only happened to *one* person


Acanthus said:
... but ffs if you sit and read the sensationalist news all day you'll be convinced that its hell on earth rather than enjoying your damn life.
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No tard, I dont sit and read "sensationalist" news all day. I look at my local news once in a while, and happened to run across this story. My parents live in that town, and its in my own backyard. This story, along with countless other similar stories I have read in the past lead me to believe that it would behoove an alone female, or man for that matter, to NOT open the door to a salesman. Read the article that was linked by another poster. These salesman are shady at best, and many are convicted criminals.

You are making yourself look like a fool.
 
nick1985 said:
You certainly implied it doesnt happen more often with your other post where you implied this has only happened to *one* person





No tard, I dont sit and read "sensationalist" news all day. I look at my local news once in a while, and happened to run across this story. My parents live in that town, and its in my own backyard. This story, along with countless other similar stories I have read in the past lead me to believe that it would behoove an alone female, or man for that matter, to NOT open the door to a salesman. Read the article that was linked by another poster. These salesman are shady at best, and many are convicted criminals.

You are making yourself look like a fool.
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We agree to disagree then. I don't think it's a serious problem.

There are millions, maybe billions of solicitations each year. Less than 10 involve crimes. Stop the presses.
 
Acanthus said:
We agree to disagree then. I don't think it's a serious problem.

There are millions, maybe billions of solicitations each year. Less than 10 involve crimes. Stop the presses.
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Less than 10? lol OK dude, we agree to disagree then. Keep pulling those numbers out of your asshole.
 
Acanthus said:
RTFT?

The 8 month study revealed less than 10 violent crimes.
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I guess 9 now, right? And thats just for magazine sales, just 1 specific area of solicitation. Do you think if we added up ALL solicitation crimes and ALL repairman crimes for a year, we would hit 10? I'd bet you dollars to donuts we would be WAYYYYY over 10.


Lets also say that we are arguing just about magazine solicitations. Only 10 in 8 months? Hmm, let me do some basic math here. 8 is 2/3 of 12, one full year. That leaves us 4 more months, giving us a projected total of 15 by my math.

Its obvious you are just arguing for the sake of arguing.
 
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highland145 said:
Not wanting to get between you and Nick but what if you or a loved one happened to be one of the 10? For me, reason enough to not open the door and to have a gun.
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What if your apartment building burns down because a pyro lives in one of the units?

OMFG no apts. I'm sure we can get some scary stats on fires in apt buildings and link them to an order of magnitude more deaths.
 
Acanthus actually does have a point; there's probably millions of solicitations done, whether it be online or in person. Is there a danger to opening your door to a complete stranger? Of course! on this point I cannot fault the OP

What I fault the OP with is his illogical conclusion that one, a handful, or even a few dozen instances of crimes means he's justified in thinking that all door-to-door salesman are potential predators.

These salesman are shady at best, and many are convicted criminals.
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Why don't you look up how many women were raped at Wal-mart parking lots? (hint: it's alot more than "a few") and how often are victims assaulted, raped, etc.? (answer: the vast majority of victims KNOW their attacker). Being out in public and/or avoiding strangers is little guarantee of safety.

I think OP has a case of mean world syndrome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_World_Syndrome
 
ModerateRepZero said:
What I fault the OP with is his illogical conclusion that one, a handful, or even a few dozen instances of crimes means he's justified in thinking that all door-to-door salesman are potential predators.
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All door-to-door salesman ARE potential predators.


Obviously the majority are not predators. I'd rather eliminate the risk all-together and just not open the door to salesman. If I need something, I can get it myself.
 
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nick1985 said:
All door-to-door salesman ARE potential predators.


Obviously the majority are not predators. I'd rather eliminate the risk all-together and just not open the door to salesman. If I need something, I can get it myself.
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As is everyone, everywhere, always.
 
Acanthus said:
As is everyone, everywhere, always.
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nick1985 said:
All door-to-door salesman ARE potential predators.

Obviously the majority are not predators. I'd rather eliminate the risk all-together and just not open the door to salesman. If I need something, I can get it myself.
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That's your choice. Odd though how people tend to overestimate danger (again, the "mean world syndrome").....classic example is dying in terrorist attacks. Even including 9/11 you're far more likely to get killed in a car accident. Although given the Kayla Gerdes incident, apparently you can get killed just being in front of your house (Gerdes allegedly lost control of a vehicle speeding towards a court hearing and plowed into a homeowner)...it doesn't matter to me if a similar story happened, 10 times, or a hundred times within a short period of time. It's a tragedy but it's not going to make me paranoid about other people's actions which are beyond my ability to prevent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003104-504083.html
 
I have a sign on my door:

No Solicitation.
We are in Texas.
I own a shotgun.
Feel like knocking still?



Seems to work.
 
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