(Updated below, and edited for clarity and accuracy)
...going door to door on an early weekday afternoon, peddling a homemade cleaner in refillable spray bottles
...knocking on door of a house where the shades were all drawn
...not trying the neighbors next door, nor those I asked from further up the street*.
Polite and friendly too.
Lacking a larcenous background, I have no experience, so must ask: how likely is it that he was legit?
I did call the police dept; got the sheriff's dispatcher, asked if this was something worth reporting - the answer is apparently not, unless he lacks the required peddler's license(?).
Do door-to-door evangelists need a license? If not, that'd seem a more prudent method of doing pre-burglary research.
(and do the legitimate evangelists evangelize alone, or do they always work in pairs?)
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Morning-after update:
Walked across the street to City Hall after coffee and asked, and heard:
1. Yes, sounds like my handsome visitor was legit; someone of same description had come in yesterday and taken out the papers; is from out of town, I believe Sacto area.
2. Unless you're evangelizing for profit, you don't need a license to go door to door proselytizing your religion (which is obvious, in retrospect)
So the only thing left to wonder about is the one-evangelist-vs.-two question, whether they do always travel in pairs/groups when going door to door.
Confidential to reader wondering at the suspicious consider-the-worst mentality evinced here: au contraire, history ("all the data that we have so far") reveals your correspondent to be a clueless blithering idiot. Trust me on this one.
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