Turnabout is Fair Play

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A mother of three in England became so fed up with Jehovah's Witnesses calling at her home she interrupted their Sunday service by banging on their church door and offering them free magazines.
Jane White, 35, who has been visited by the religious group every month for more than 12 years, spent 30 minutes on the steps of the Kingdom Hall, in Peacehaven, East Sussex, until police moved her on.

"I've never done anything like this before, but I had a visit from the Jehovah's Witnesses the day before, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back," she said afterward.

I've been having regular visits from them in the 12 years that I've lived in Peacehaven. It is not the religion that I object to. It is just the intrusion into my privacy that I find annoying.

"I timed my visit for 10:00 a.m. because I knew that it would be in the middle of a service. One member of the congregation thought it was funny, others took it seriously.

I tried to hand out free magazines to see if they would like a copy, just like the copies of 'The Watchtower' the Jehovah's Witnesses hand out. Nobody seemed to want them though."

Copyright: The Times of London - January 28, 2002