Help Us, Mr. Police Officer! It’s a Man Selling Children’s Books!

In the town of Soddy-Daisy,
Tennessee, some citizens had a bit of a—what? Yes, there’s a town
in Tennessee called Soddy-Daisy. Read up about it here.
It’s okay, I had the same reaction. (If everybody else already knew
about this place, please just humor me.)

Anyway, in this town of Soddy-Daisy (I literally cannot stop
saying “Soddy-Daisy”), citizens have been tormented by the scourge
of a recent college graduate trying to earn money by selling
children’s books door to door. Fortunately, the police have put a
stop to one Armando Navo, whom
NewsChannel 9 in Tennessee took great pains to explain for some
reason (and show, complete with his license plate number), is
from Texas:

A door to door salesman is causing uproar in Soddy Daisy. 
That salesman, a 23-year-old from Texas, has now lost his right to
do business in the Soddy Daisy city limits. 

“It seemed unprofessional for us.  Instead of asking for
the parents or people that were home, he was talking to children.
He was approaching children and asking if he knew of any other
houses in the neighborhood that had kids living there,” said Nate
Mayo.

Mayo was at a family barbecue and saw the stranger talking to
children who live in the neighborhood.

“I actually went out to the front yard and I asked him if he
could leave, we weren’t interested in buying anything, and he was
very pushy towards me, and he wouldn’t take no for an answer,” said
Mayo.

NewsChannel 9 journalist Jerry Askin actually tracked Navo down,
and he apologized if he came off as pushy. What he was doing,
though, was perfectly legal it seems. He even had a license from
the city of Soddy-Daisy to do business in town. But no longer:
According to Askin’s report, the police department has revoked
Navo’s license, and Askin was not able to get an explanation as to
how, exactly, the police were able to do so.

The company Navo sells books for, Southwestern Advantage, posted
a response to the story under NewsChannel9’s report, complete with
a link to Navo’s Facebook
page. The page shows pictures of him with happy families and
kids enjoying the books he’s sold them. But apparently not in
Soddy-Daisy.

(Hat tip to Echo)