‘Meter-reading conman’ charged

Hannah Silverman: The Advertiser | July 06, 2008

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23975104-2682,00.html

A MAN posing as an energy meter reader has been charged over the indecent assault of a Davoren Park woman yesterday.

Police will allege the man, 28, from Klemzig, posed as a power company meter reader to gain entry to the woman’s Westbury St home.

The man, who is of Indian appearance, allegedly “conned” his way into the victims home suggesting he was a power company meter reader who needed to enter her Westbury St home.

Once inside the man asked if anyone was home and then indecently touched her about 4.30pm.

Following the assualt police issued a warning to home owners about suspicious visitors.

“Police encourage home owners that if they are uncertain as to the validity of people presenting themselves to conduct business, to ask for proper identification,” senior constable Tim Dodds said.

Comment:
Unfortunately, the over use of Indians and Asiatics as door to door utilities salesmen, and taxi drivers has led to the average White Australian over compensating in their attempts to not appear racist. This over compensation leads to far too much trust for people that – if the average Australian could understand more than two words of what they say – the typical Australian would normally tell them to “Please leave,” or better still to “F*** off!”

I believe this has led to a deliberate use of non-Whites with incomprehensible accents by the taxi and utilities companies because the average White Australian in his – or more often her fear of being accused of racism allow themselves to get ripped off on a daily basis. My personal experience of Indian and Asian taxi drivers is that on a whole their normal methods are to deliberately take twists and turns throughout the streets; stopping two to three times during a trip to consult a map book, thereby needlessly extending and raising the cost of the trip. My advice there is to pay them what they deserve – not what they demand. Take $3 off, and when they demand more, again give them what they deserve – a finger or two as you walk off. Be sure to report the driver’s behaviour to the taxi company ASAP (preferably when sober) and state your reasons for your own actions. Although it is not legitimate income – infact, it is outright theft – the t ...

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