‘Chuggers’ face £500 fine for annoying shoppers

Chuggers!!!...There's no wonder shoppers get annoyed.Chugging is slang for MASTURBATION around these parts.

good - I do volunteer work where I mentor a young child for the Bristol Drugs project - while out with my mentee we got hounded by a Save the Children chugger who made me spend 10 minutes talking to him because he would not let me leave he stood in my way when i did, he personally insulted me and then tol dme he had an answer for everything and that i had to sign up otherwise i was not a good person................... ordinarily im not so "british" and would of told this overbearing chugger where to go - but i had to set a good example and so then got stuck there foo 10MINS when I told him in the instance that although it is terribly sad - I donate time to charities rather than money so do not waste your time on me ...... and he wouldnt let me leave!!

Hypocritical. There is nothing more annoying than the automated Government messages on my answermachine asking me to sign up for a grant for home improvements - and the cold callers that go with them. I get these messages on a daily basis.

If I am feeling in the right mood, (ie severely hacked off) I will ask the chugger a series of highly intimate questions. I figure that if they feel they have the right to approach me and ask me personal things (and donations to charities are personal things) then I can enquire about the size of their tackle, or whether they shave. The women hate it and the men think you are coming on to them. Again, if I am feeling really hacked off, I will pursue them and give them a taste of what its like to be followed down the street being asked personal questions. Try it. Its a lot of fun, totally legal, and its great watching them run for cover.

my daughter was accosted on her way to final exams ,they would not go away and she was in a hurry to get there in time eventally. She explained as student nurse she could not afford to donate onregular basis and was in hurry to get to exam. they moved on with the parting shot "I hope you fail your exams then"

Well done. As on e person said on here they are parasites and need to be dealt with. I am on a very low income and can't afford many luxuries, I occasionally donate the odd £5.00 to the RSPCA online. I can honestly say that I have never been spammed by them and each time I send them some money I get a lovely email back thanking me.
I resent the fact that when I am out shopping on a very tight budget and made to feel guilty by people hounding me for money that I can ill afford. Most of these charities are richer than we are and could probably manage on the interest that they have in their banks.

NEVER. Sign up with a chigger. If they are genuine the fundraising company gets your first 18 months payments as commission. Often the charity gets nothing. F it's a charity you like go direct and give the charity all the cash.

Also would You give such important details to a stranger. Do you check their identification. Coypu heck they are licences. Do you check they are crb checked

In either case you should never talk to these people

Perhaps councils can now get to work on the marketeers with clipboards who regularly pounce on increasingly frustrated passers by?

Its not just chuggers that are a pest i think if anyone else stops me with -have you had any accidents lately ? i will kick him ,if i want i insurance new windows sky TV etc. i will get it myself ,do these companies really think someone goes to town thinking i hope somebody is out selling whatever ,and i am sick of my phone ringing and it bloody call centre's with free info or trying to sell things , this is harassment and it should be stopped

Best thing to do, if you want to give charity, is give it direct to the people in need, atleast you know 100% of your hard earned cash is getting to the person that needs it, and no % is taken by all those so called "charity workers"!!

I was once approached by a 'chugger' from a deaf children's charity. I was pregnant at the time, and he said I should sign up, as how would I feel if my child was born deaf! Completely inappropriate, and I walked away. This is not the way to give to charity!

Doorstep chuggers are the worst.

fantastic i never knew this, i love the fact that they can be reported to an official watchdog

Also annoying is the AA, Sky, non existent accidents, double glazing, etc.

I'd also like to see banned the opening, "Can I just ask you one question?".
I've taken to answering it and then when they continue reminding them they said they would ask one question and walking off.

thank goodness I a so sick of walking through town and being attacked by these people and I give to five charities already and cant afford any more I tell them and they get "oh one more its only £- per week." yeah unemployed bairly able to afford the ones I got, summer raffles, easter raffles constant begging letters, junk mail no thanks, its like highway bloody robbery and once they have your details they pass them to all their other buddies so they can mob you with junk mail to, maybe if they spent less money on junk mail and these street muggers they would have more to actually help people, but everyone knows these days very little of the money you donate actually does the good its promised to do.

they should try them at asda...as soon as you walk in the reception bit before you get in the main building there there rattling in front of you or try to get yout attention.its like a a major achievement if you can get to the main building and out!!!

Most of these collectors are bogus. People throw money at them not knowing where the money is going. Anyone can start a charity and donate any percentage to the charity, perhaps 2% of what they collect. Go figure.

Get rid of them all together, when I go shopping I do not want to be spoken to stopped I want my space and privacy, especially when you are in a hurry as we all are in our break times,the problem with the British we are to polite and embarrassed to just ignore these people, and they prey on that.Lets see more Councils ban these people.I just walk by and ignore them.

Im getting sick of the number of charity plastic bags pushed through the letter box. Six this week and its only Wednesday.
Got a lovely one this week with a wooden cross in it !!!! Nothing but 'guilt-blackmail'
If I want to give I do, but these 'Begging' letters and bags now go straight in the bin