SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — The doorbell rang at Kari Knell’s home on the evening of July 10 around dinnertime. What happened next was something she never expected.
When she opened the door, a young man was in her foyer with his cell phone. She later learned he was a door-to-door solar panel salesman.
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“He never looked me in the eye,” Knell said. “He never identified himself. He had nothing in his hands but his phone, and I said ‘not interested,’ and I shut the door.”
Knell told us the man continued to knock, ring the doorbell, and yell through her door. After a back-and-forth where Knell made it clear she wanted the man to get off her property, she said things took a turn…