Sure am tired of your daughter Rachel with Card Services though.
Sure am tired of your daughter Rachel with Card Services though.
You folks are hard core. If someone believes their brand of religion enough to go out and proselytize I figure it takes very little effort to wish them well in their endeavors and goodbye. Door-to-door pitchmen have a tough way to make a living, so I normally tell them I don't want to waste their time, shake their hand and let them get on to the next door. Can't think of a time I ever had to raise my voice or tell someone to GTFO who was trying to pitch me something.
The postman, police, and town w*rkers ALL have to ask permission to enter private property, UNLESS they are summoned in an emergency or given express permission. Only the fire department is exempt if there are flames.Are you sure that someone is not allowed to walk up to your front door and knock? Why else do builders build sidewalks up from the street?
The funny (or not so funny) thing about door-to-door anything (sales, religion, can I fix your roof, etc) is that these people are trespassing on private property. Mine, yours.
What gives them the right to do that ? No law that I am aware of.
My home is not public domain.
The last time I checked my rights, only persons that I have invited can enter my private property. There was one heck of a tea party in a harbor and more revolution in the mid 1770s against that kind of nonsense.
Public domain is public domain. Public domain businesses display NO SOLICITING signs as a matter of course. Do we private homeowners have to do same ? HELL NO.
So why do these people invade private property ? Maybe there are too many nice grandmas (grandpas) out there.
I can just imagine the swat team asking permission to come in and shoot you!The postman, police, and town w*rkers ALL have to ask permission to enter private property, UNLESS they are summoned in an emergency or given express permission. Only the fire department is exempt if there are flames.
I had to ask this very question when my husband passed over a decade ago, because I was besieged with all sorts of uninvited people on my private property.
In an urban setting, yes, the sidewalk is public. I live in the country. Except for the first 20 feet next to the road, get off my lawn.
I can just imagine the swat team asking permission to come in and shoot you!
So why do these people invade private property ? Maybe there are too many nice grandmas (grandpas) out there.
Good question.Unless you have posted No Trespassing signs, how are visitors to know where your private property begins?
Are you sure that someone is not allowed to walk up to your front door and knock? Why else do builders build sidewalks up from the street?
Are you sure that someone is not allowed to walk up to your front door and knock? Why else do builders build sidewalks up from the street?
It depends on state law. I think in most states unless the property is posted or the owner or a person in a supervisory position (at a business) tells the visitor to leave there is no trespass. That is, merely walking to the door and knocking is not a crime.