Yeah, if somebody came to my front door to "sell me electricity" I'd be on high alert, regardless of his race. Where I come from it's a known scheme where one

Yeah, if somebody came to my front door to "sell me electricity" I'd be on high alert, regardless of his race. Where I come from it's a known scheme where one guy gets you distracted at the front door with some semi-plausible sales pitch like re-sealing your driveway while his accomplice goes behind the house and robs you blind. Of course, even when the apparent salesman is a genuine salesman, that doesn't mean he's a nice person. Door to door salesmen praying on politeness to get unsuspecting victims into high pressure sales situations in their own living room is common enough that my blanket response to all salesmen knocking on my door is telling them to fuck off. In a certain sense, calling a salesman a thief might actually be giving him the benefit of the doubt.