We’re not big fans of door-to-door marketing, and today we bring you another example of why we feel this way. According to the News-Journal, an employee of a marketing firm contracted by Verizon has been arrested and charged with two counts of “lewdness, resisting arrest and criminal trespassing,” after a man in a Verizon t-shirt was spotted “masturbating while watching a woman work in her garden.”
From the News-Journal:
On Monday, residents in the North Graylyn Crest neighborhood told police they saw a man hiding behind a vehicle who appeared to be masturbating while watching a woman work in her garden, said New Castle County police spokesman Cpl. Trinidad Navarro.
The man was described as wearing a Verizon T-shirt.
Police searched the area but couldn’t find the man.
Police spoke to the woman the man had been watching, and she said she didn’t know the man was watching her, but that a man had been to her house earlier and had attempted to sell her Verizon services.
Police spoke to Verizon officials, who said the company outsources solicitation campaigns to marketing companies, and that several representatives of such a company had been sent to the area.
On Tuesday, police received a report of a suspicious man who was walking along Grubb Road soliciting for Verizon, Navarro said.
When an officer confronted the man near a convenience store on Foulk Road, the man ran off through the backyard of a nearby home, Navarro said.
The door-to-door salesman is being held at a correctional institution in lieu of $20,500 bail.
Door-to-door salesman charged with lewdness [News Journal](Thanks, Jeff!)
(Photo: New Castle County police)
UPDATE: Verizon has suspended D2D sales in Delaware while they investigate this incident.
@spiritofseth: Holy moly, dude! You really should write a confessional.
@silver-spork: Read spiritofseth’s post above. Yikes!
@theblackdog: Oh great…you had to go and suggest that. Now you KNOW the TSA Lawyers are trying to figure out how they can legally remove genetalia because they pose a terrorist threat. And I have to travel next week.
Look for a post next week on this topic from Blogger Bob at the TSA blog.
@Most of the commenters in this thread: Thank you all for your hilarious comments, I had a great laugh reading this thread that I really needed. This is why I love this site.
He is cute, even though he does have that crooked eye. He’d make a good bottom boy for sure.
@5thAveCocaine: your story is ludicrous.
Don’t be fatuous, it’s against the commenting code
That guys face looks like you’re looking at it from multiple vantage points at once… like they took a 360º scan and didn’t flatten it right or something.
Can you hear me now? OH! OH! OH! Good.
@PsychicPsycho3:
I am a Wisconsin native relocated in Texas and as much as I miss those lakes and trees, I gotta say I love the gun laws down here. I am thinking there are quite a few silent readers out there that would ‘fix the glitch’ had it happened to them. Is this a great country or what? [abcnews.go.com]
The fun thing to do if you know your tech is to string them along, asking a bunch of tech questions and getting their bullshit answers. Take copious notes.
Then, when they try to get you to sign, hold off. Instead, go down your list point by point and ask them “why did you say X when the truth is Y”.
Of course, this requires being somewhat educated on the subject matter. Often times they will be so pissed that you wasted their time that they’ll just storm off.