PFRA-INTERPRETED RULE P5.3.1a: Immediate Termination
If a person clearly and obviously indicates by words or gestures that they do not wish to be engaged by a fundraiser either at the initial approach or during a conversation/engagement the fundraiser OUGHT to desist from the engagement and make no further attempt to engage that person.
Sanction
The penalty imposed for breach of this rule is 50 points.
Since this rule is often broken, how about we all help the PFRA out by catching errant chuggers? Here's how:
- Set your mobile phone to record and pop it in a pocket
- Go to the chugging area of your town
- Get chugged
- Say "No thank you!" loudly and clearly
- The chugger doesn't give up
- Pull your phone out and photograph the chugger
- (Optional) Tell the chugger "You're nicked"
- Send the recording and photo to the charity concerned, the PFRA and blog it somewhere
- Note: I think it's quite likely that the chugger and his team leader will not meekly accept the situation! The might apologise and promise not to do it again, or they might get aggressive and claim you are breaking the law
Related links
Greenpeace chuggers don't like photography
Tips for chugger monitoring
How the chugger "points" system works
1 comment:
I have filmed chuggers and have posted them on youtube. I know that the agencies have ordered their chuggers to agressivly aproach people who they suspect of filming them and i've seen them stop a number of people in the street and ask to see what is on their camera. The chuggers are breaking the law and the SMA which they may have signed up to with the local authorities.
I was agressively approached by chuggers while filming them and they ordered me to delete it or they would call the police. i refused and walked away. One of the chuggers tried to grab me and followed me for a quarter of a mile home. I contacted the police and the council. They informed me that filming chuggers is NOT illegal as they are operating in a public area and under the public domain. The police told me that 'photographing or filming a suspected breach of the law in a public area is in the interest of public safety and in the interests of law enforcement. i asked the police to tell that to the charity (World Vision) and the agency and to repremand them which they did.
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