[RP TownTalk] Suspicious activities, continued

[Dotsie]

Last summer, a guy in a refrigerated truck with a company name on the side came to my door selling meat. I asked for his credentials. They seemed in order so I bought some of the frozen meat at a ridiculously cheap price. Then I looked the company up on the web and it was legitimate. Of course, this is notwithstanding the the leftover meat scam between the driver and the company.

Last week, a guy in an unrefrigerated truck with no company name, just MEAT or something on the side, came by and I closed the door before I barely got "No thanks" out of my mouth. It just had a very different feel to it. 

After reading the recent posts here I think I was a bit naive last year, but it turned out well and the filet mignon grilled up great! 

Thanks for sharing your experiences, everybody. I am going to have a peep hole put in my door now since I can't tell who is there until I open it right now.

Dotsie Row
48th and Sheridan


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From: "CAROL DE PRATO" <tazimax at verizon.net> 

I think that man may (or may not) have been legit.  He was in Riverdale Heights trying to sell beef and chicken to my mother (she declined).  Although I didn't think we had traveling salesmen in this day and age.............
Carol DePrato
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I'll throw my suspicious incident into the mix.

On Saturday, someone knocked on my door.  The "other" man of the house, my imposing, loveably ugly, 90 pound bulldawg, launched into action and barked madly and continuously.  It backed the man off the front porch and from the window I could see the man was suddenly far more concerned that someone might actually OPEN the door and let the dog out!!!  AHA!!!  That's when I know I'm back in control....

Anyway, the guy said he was "selling" cuts of beef and chicken.  He had a white pick up truck with red block lettering that said "beef"  "chicken".  There were open boxes strewn in the bed of the truck that looked like waxy frozen meat cases.  I opened the door  just a crack, told him I was a vegetarian, but the dogs eat meat (still barking his head off), smiled, and closed the door.  He was very diligent and was SURE the gate was latched when he made it to the other side.

I thought it very odd that someone would try to sell meat off the back of a truck (can you say e. coli?) and figured it was just a stolen shipment of meat, but who knows, maybe his intentions were different.

Adrianne Lefkowitz
Madison Street






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