"I've just come out from four years in prison . . .

[longwayoff]

Not me, the hefty young man who knocked at my door, started the above spiel, said "let me finish!" when I interrupted him and, when I said I haven't any money in the house, called me a cunt because I laughed when he said I could pay by bank transfer. AIBU to suggest these door knockers could use some training? Who are these people and where do they come from? They are always northerners and crop up about twice a year with a sob story.

I've never had anyone like that turn up on my doorstep. I must lead a sheltered life! misses point of threqd*

Well according to yourself they come from prison and the North.

They're scammers. Shut the door and call the police.

@longwayoff

they are always northerners.

Did he look a bit working class too?

Where do YOU live then?!

We had one at our house yesterday trying to sell my husband random items he had in a box. It's well dodgy.

The ones we get aren't Northerners. But they are a tad abrupt.

The one we had when we lived in the middle of nowhere got a bit threatening, me a woman on my own, no visible neighbours. Until a gate opened and a herd of cows wandered down the road off for miliking. He legged it to a van, the van got stuck in the herd, farmer was less than polite.

I didn't see them there again, but we get a couple every year here, provincial small town. Our PCSO moves them on, yes, he does work evenings!

Oh yeah, sometimes all us Northerners get together and think of new and interesting ways to annoy the Southerners. I'll have to report back that it was a success.

Presumably they cone from the north...

They are Nottingham Knockers... Ring 101 if they come again. We are told to where i live. here

teyem

Well, blow me, us northerners have been rumbled. Thieves and scoundrels the lot of us...

We get these sometimes, I report them to the police - they said it's a scam but they don't really do anything. None have threatened me but they have a nasty demeanour.

I haven’t had one of these for years, but I had one couple of weeks ago trying to sell overpriced dusters. When I said I wasn’t interested he called me a bitch and walked off.
Don’t know who’s training them but it’s not working.

What a horrible experience, that would have freaked me out, nobody should be called a cunt by a total stranger at their own front door.

They are probably scammers - especially if they claim to be from an oranisation called Helping Hands.

www.safelocaltrades.com/consumers/advice/doorstep-pedlars?fbclid=IwAR2pipRJCju0RVCGn_txvE-h8UX1dmo3g96Hksuml3D4_btRFWduIDIGo_M

Thieves and scoundrels the lot of us... Yup! We're inveterate scallies, one and all.

How did you know he was a northerner Did he gave a northern accent?

Why on earth are all the professionally offended getting their knickers in a twist about use of the word ‘northern’..?? It’s not an insult you know, it’s just an adjective. I’m quite northern myself (see username). I’m sure OP recognises a northern accent when she hears it and should be allowed to say so.

How did you know he was a northerner Did he gave a northern accent?

And which one.....we’re a terrifying lot in the north. All sorts of tribes.

OH MY GOD, NOT NORTHERNERS! THE HORROR 😱

We get a few of them here but I always buy stuff (usually overpriced cleaning products) out of middle class guilt. Am I doing something wrong?

I'm not offended, I thought it was funny that the op felt that she was being harassed by Northerners in particular

I have one of these www.amazon.co.uk/NEW-Cold-Calling-Door-Sticker/dp/B017813XOS/ref=sr_1_22?s=gateway&keywords=no+cold+caller+signs+for+door&hvdev=c&hvadid=79852064352567&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1557849585&sr=8-22 stuck on my front door. Works pretty well except Jehovah's Witnesses tend to ignore it.

The flat caps and cloggs must have given it away !

Like northerners, or north of the wall northerners?

Cause theres a difference.