Oxfam Chugger breaks the rules

This chugger was spotted at least 100m outside the chugging zone in Cheltenham. Since the official chugging zone is almost completely dug up at the moment, I wondered if it had been moved. I rang up the Council who confirmed that the chugger was indeed out of zone.

That's rather mean of the Council - restricting chuggers to an area full of pneumatic drills but I doubt that any local residents mind at all!

Super Aggressive Greenpeace Chuggers

I think there must be a new training "get tough" package at Greenpeace for their chuggers. Today's gang in Cheltenham were openly pursuing people who very clearly were not interested. I saw one old lady pursued down the road - there were 5 steps after I noticed and started counting.

Unfortunately, I didn't have a camera with me but I may be able to get back later!

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Martin Clunes calls man a "pussy" in debate on chuggers

Alan Titchmarsh Show 11th Oct 2013

Notice the audience vote near the end.

EveryChild breaks the rules

Two EveryChild chuggers strayed today in Cheltenham. I snapped them between the Beechwood Arcade and Paddy Power around 1138. This is outside the agreed chugging zone.



Only had a cheap phone camera available. I reported them to the Council. Nothing happened for at least 10 minutes while I watched - the chuggers carried on the usual antics of silly dances and waves. There were another 3 of the same brand of chuggers in the official Chugging zone.

Shelter Chugger breaks several rules?

Catches some behaviour that may be against the rules on obstruction and "cornering" people sat on seats.

Harassing or not?

Very short (fair use) extract from the BBC Inside Out SE programme on Chuggers 7/1/13. Shows an interview with a chugger saying he doesn't harass people while his collegue clearly *does* harass someone in the background. Since Everychild knew they were on camera, you'd expect squeaky clean behaviour from the team! Later on in the programme, it comes out that the non-harassing interviewee made zero sign-ups that day!