Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Beware in Ballard

This just came in from a viewer.

A slender African American male with short hair and missing teeth rang our doorbell at 6am trying to tell me he was my neighbor and needed to borrow 13 bucks to pay the locksmith because he was locked out of his apartment and his wallet was locked inside. He said "I work at the Alfonzo Church, you can check me out". He was dressed respectively and seemed honest enough so I thought I would err on the side of kindness... and he hasn't come back. I've already left a message with the police because I could definitely identify him and this is a new scam. They have taken his description but I thought I would pass along the story in case he's going to try it multiple times, on different people. We are installing a security camera on to our house because my first thought was that he rang the doorbell thinking we weren't home and wanted to rob the house.