whether you behaved this way with vulnerable old people on the street,passers-by would intervene
How effect you avoid them? Ignore unknown numbers? Shun tall streets and shopping centres? Sellotape the letterbox shut and disconnect the doorbell? Some people wear horse blinkers to protect their peripheral vision from poster campaigns. I choose to wear a bright jacket with matching clipboard whenever I leave the house, protected from fundraisers by seeming to be one (a technique I learned from watching films about zombies).
Seemingly relentless and indefatigable, and the undead charity fundraisers and their methods acquire been the target of a parliamentary investigation. The Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee discovered that several big-name charities were hounding” donors to an unreasonable extent. “To what extent is chasing someone with hounds ever fair?” I wondered sarcastically before remembering that “hounding” is just an expression. What they were actually doing was phoning up all the time asking for money – you know,like you with your parents.
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Source: theguardian.com