Ridgewood NJ, Ridgewood Police report that on Saturday September 5, 2015, a William Street resident reported a suspicious interaction with a suspicious man while holding a garage sale at his/her residence. The man asked if he could enter into the resident’s home to look at other items that he might be interested in purchasing and he persisted until the homeowner allowed him to do so.
At some point the man became extremely pushy and initially refused to leave the home when asked, making the homeowner uncomfortable. This is a frequently reported pattern of behavior by persons looking to take advantage of these situations often targeting the elderly or unsuspecting citizens and often times working in unison with an accomplice known as a “distraction scam”.
Ridgewood Police urge residents to , “Use great caution when allowing any strangers entrance to your home.”
Garage sales are such a waste of time from a seller’s perspective. You spend an entire day carting all you crap outside, then sit there and haggle with cheap buyers, lug most of it all back inside afterwards, and for all that work, end up with about $50 in your pocket.
How about ” you’ve got 30 seconds to get out of my house”. I am armed and will not hesitate to protect my family”.
Maybe call the police. No normal garage sale shopper would think of asking to go inside.
This is when a stun gun comes in handy.
My Dobermans like meeting new people.