My neighbor was scammed by driveway spraying scammers

Makes sense. We live in a suburb. Not too yuppie, but in a place where most people do mow the lawn.

wrote: (clip) Damn, what is it with you young people, are you mentally regarded or

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Do I get my choice? I'll choose "mentally regarded."

Likely a truck from a county job or a school job or such - had leftovers and made money on the side... No return to sender.

I hope the 'oil' they sprayed sets up and turns firm. Often it is very high in oil and doesn't setup.

We had our road system - 15 houses - have shale bits about 2" deep and then a heavy screen over it.

The other process - we liked better - oil down and then stones. This one spread stone for some time. The first one - the oil trapped the stone - and when we rode on it - the stone meshed between lower and upper oils.

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Ignoramus6369 wrote:

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Maybe, maybe not. Depends if the cops are on the take, how busy they are, and if the seal coaters are out and out scamming, as in spraying used motor oil instead of driveway sealer.

In the Chicagoland area it's not at all unusual for legit companies to go neighborhood to neighborhood sealing driveways. At least three different companies come around our area every year. I always have a look at what they are doing at the neighbors house first, negotiate them down a whole bunch second, and pay them AFTER they are done and I'm happy with the job. I can usually get it done for right around what I pay for the stuff in 5 gallon pails at Home Depot. I've never had a problem.

I find one of the best ways to get these annoying jobs done, like seal coating or power washing, is to wait until a neighbor has hired someone. Then mosey on over and see if you can get a deal by offering them a quick side job. Tell him you'll pay cash, and they can start as soon as they done with the neighbor. Unless, of course, they are doing a lousy job at the neighbors.

YMMV.

One can be African or American, but not both. "African-American is just a feel good term thought up by some PC liberal.

Roma also known as Romani people are indigenous to southern and eastern Europe and the middle east. Kind of the boarder between the orient, and the occident. The country of Romania is in this neck of the woods, and also gains it's name

The gypsies tended to live amongst them but were actually of another tribe.

Are you this big an asshole in real life?

Grin!!

Harold

Do you always use an atlas as a dictionary?

Tom

I can't help feeling that, were you in the correct state, this would be an occasion where a CCW would come in useful! Might cause more trouble than it solved though.

Mark Rand RTFM

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Racist little prick, aren't you?

In these parts we call it "Gypsy Paint" and now you know why....

--.- Dave

In a small town the police would probably respond. In a big city, they would refer you to whoever enforces city licensing requirements. In both places there is someone who wants to make sure the city gets money for licenses. Getting someone to respond because you lost money is harder than getting someone to respond because the city probably lost money.

Dan

True. I have noticed, though, in small towns, the police take note of "traveling tradesmen" and others that are not familiar. And they have the time to do so. They know a lot of the local people, and those from outside the area are very noticeable.

Steve

Only when appropiate. :-) ...lew...

Correct. Many years ago I lived in a rural town and had a sales job that sent me on the road. Once I was going door to door to businesses and a cop asked me who I represented. He explained that I needed to come to the station to register.He was polite and had m get in the front seat. At the station the chief explained what is called a Green River Ordinance which requires itinerant sales people to register (there was no fee). He then had the dispatcher radio the officer who drove me back to my car.

I had the same thing happen with guys delivering mulch years ago. When they asked for more than the original estimate and I said I wouldn't pay more, they stared me down and said, "It's not like we don't know where you live." It was crappy mulch, too.

Viv

Thank you for the calm lucid rational answer from someone who's been there, done that. I, also, have had experiences all over this land. I just get aggravated when I try to bring them here, and some want to attack even the premise.

It's like, if they've never seen the Statue of Liberty, they swear it cannot exist.

Wikipedia on Green River Ordinance:

The name Green River Ordinance is given to a common American city ordinance prohibiting door-to-door solicitation. Under such an ordinance, it is illegal for any business to sell their items door-to-door without express permission from the household beforehand. Some versions prohibit all organizations, including non-profit charitable, political, and religious groups, from soliciting or canvassing any household that makes it clear, in writing, that it does not want such solicitations (generally with a "No Trespassing" or "No Solicitations" sign posted.)

The ordinance is named for the city of Green River, Wyoming, the first city to enact it.

The ordinance has been brought before the Supreme Court for challenge in several times. While the court has upheld these ordinances when they prohibit intrastate commerce (seeing the issue as a state's rights issue), more recent decisions suggest that a total ban on door to door soliciting would be found unconstitutional and unenforceable on the grounds of religious free speech and commercial free speech when the ordinances ban religious or interstate solicitations.

So, therefore, if the person who was solicited for the driveway work lived in a town where the Green River Ordinance was in effect, all they had to do was call the police, and they would have taken care of the whole (eventual) mess. Or, the town may have had their OWN ordinance. Like a fellow said, all the town is interested in is getting their cut. For some small towns, their radar guns and enforcement of local laws on tourists, outsiders and the uninformed brings in revenues.

Steve