3. TIL in 2002, a British woman was so annoyed by Jehovah Witnesses repeatedly knoc...

TIL in 2002, a British woman was so annoyed by Jehovah Witnesses repeatedly knocking on her door, she waited until they were holding a service, then started pounding on the front doors of their church. Then, she tried to get them to change religions. After about a half-hour, she was forced to leave

I worked at a place right next to a JW church (?) For a while. They didn't knock but every damn day they put pamphlets on our windshields. No ordinary pamphlets they looked just like parking tickets so people would be forced to pick them up. Worst off, they were pretty racist and homophobic, I vividly remember one with a picture of Obama photoshopped over a swastika. Eventually we had to start our shift grabbing them and putting them in boxes in our back room. It all came to and end one day when the guy who did them came to our work in a car. Luckily for us, his sun roof was open, and we dumped about 3 months of pamphlets in his car while he was in the far parking lot

Combined with a myriad of police encounters, they stopped after that

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