A scam artist came to our door twice this week with a rake and broom saying that he has a deal with another member of the household to clean up the yard every other week for $5. Unfortunately for him when he came to the door on Sunday to lay his spiel and tell me how he had a deal with "the other guy in the house" and motioned out to the clean yard and swept sidewalk, he didn't realize that I had just finished cleaning it an hour earlier. I told him if he had a deal with another household member, he could come back and discuss it with him later, and I wasn't going to pay him for work I had just done. Then he asked me for a couple of bucks. I went back inside when we were done, then turned back to get my old work gloves which were drying on the floor of the porch during our conversation and he had just walked off with them and disappeared down the street. He's a black gentleman, mid-thirties, missing a front tooth on the top with an anchor wire dangling from the gum, says he lives somewhere north of 26th. Don't let him rip you off.

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