What was your WORST Field Service encounter???

by TheCoolerKing 55 Replies latest jw experiences

  • Vernon Williams
    Vernon Williams

    Rural territory...stepped out of the car....suddenly, have no idea where they came from....some kind of a bulldog like dog: two of them, freaking huge....hip high...out of now where and they are beside me.

    Damn near passed out: I am afraid of dogs: dog bite when I was about five.

    Turned out they were real "puppy-ish."

    There are more...this was the one that came to mind.

    V

    PS: the oddest "door story" is this: not JWs...selling Rainbow vacumn cleaners. Knocked on a door. A young women came to the door: very attractive, shapely. She is wearing a high on the leg skirt, low cut. Said she was waiting on her husband: they were going out to dinner. I I say "OK' and turn to leave. About that time a Doberman on something like it, growls and forces itself against the door. She is in a house trailer, no porch. The screen slams open and the dog is going to go for my throat. She catches the collor. Here is the picture:

    I am face to face with the Doberman and he is "death ready." She has ahold of his collor pulling him back. Meanwhile, another struggle is gong on: Her breasts are battling to escape from what little dress/bra were holding them in place. Funny, this was a no fear situation: it was such a paradox: dog teath and heaving bosum. Never saw anything like it.

    Just a true story.......

  • Amber Rose
    Amber Rose

    Amazingly I never had any trouble in feild service. What I cannot understand to this day is how can anyone not think it is a bad idea for a group of cute 18-14 year old girls walk up to strangers homes? Men hardly ever went out. It was mostly young girls. I guess alot of people think they have divine protection but I never bought it. I didn't want to be the only one without faith though. What would happen if someone was seriously injured or kidnapped or killed while in FS? Is there any liability for the WTBS?

  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk

    For me it would have to be when my ancestors were first contacted by the cult.

  • 5go
    5go

    I had a gun pointed at me.......................fortunately, I have the ability to calm down agitated people quite quickly.

    That was actually the most dangerous.

    The worst was when the jw with me started arguing with the homeowner about the flag salute and hit the man when he called her a "bitch." He chased us off the property saying much more worse words than that. She gets to the car and tells the other jws that the man was severely opposed and attacked us...............is that a lie she told, I thought..............

    Blondie

    Thats when you should call the police. It's a felony to do that. ( Not to mention gives us semi-sane gun owners a bad rap.) Versus misdamenor tresspassing. That man shouldn't be owning a firearm anymore.

  • parakeet
    parakeet

    Dogs. Huge, hairy, horrible dogs.

  • TheCoolerKing
    TheCoolerKing
    What I cannot understand to this day is how can anyone not think it is a bad idea for a group of cute 18-14 year old girls walk up to strangers homes?

    Just another example of the WTS having little regard for its membership. Especially if they are women.

  • Gordy
    Gordy

    In nigh on 30 years as a JW, I never had a really bad thing happen to me.

    Never had anyone shout at me, slam the door on me etc, talked to a few odd people, but nothing terrible ever happened.

    By the time it was coming up to me leaving I was finding that I would be lucky to talk to 6 people in an hour of service.

    Even the years beforehand it was becoming difficult to get anyone in or even talk to if they were.

    Theres an old saying "That playing golf, is a good walk spoilt."

    Well I think doing an hour in field service is on the same level.

    Now I think of all the hours wasted by JW's in field service. That could have been used in much better ways.

    Why not running a charity shop, or feeding the homeless, helping at a hospice, or similar things. Things that I see REAL Christians doing.

    But no the JW is convinced they have done a great work by spending an hour knocking on the doors of houses and speaking to a couple of people and maybe getting some money for a magazine or book.

  • logic
    logic

    One man stuck a shotgun in my face and told me to get off his property. Another man grabbed me by the back of my collar as I was leaving and stuck a rifle up between my butt and escorted me off his property. Have been called every name in the book. Threatened more times than I can count. I could write a book on the insane crap I have been through going out in the good ol 'service'. When someone tells me I really should get more time in 'service' I would like to take these experiences and shove them down their throat. I realized a long time ago than JWS are not preaching the good news, all they are doing is ticking everyone off. Pioneers tick more people off than anybody. I know because I did my regular pioneer bit when I was young.

  • kifoy
    kifoy

    I and a sister came to one house on a "vacant district" (I don't know the English term) one summer, and the owner threatened to sick his dog on us. We turned around of course, didn't run, but it was pretty close. And I think he let go of the dog (big and scary) just before we reached the gate.

    That was pretty nerve-wracking, you might say.

    kifoy

  • Forscher
    Forscher

    How about looking down the barrels of a double-barreled shotgun?

    It happened more than once to me.

    Forscher

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