They stopped doing that where I grew up about 22 years ago, over safety concerns while not being particularly effective, as I recall. Now, I pretty much only ever see them in subway stations or parks, sat behind a little table with a black table cloth over it and a cardboard stand next to it with pamphlets for people to take. I don’t support them in any way, but if they’re content with evangelizing in that fashion, they pretty much drop out of the list of street preachers that drive me mad entirely. It’s far and away less intrusive than the clowns that jump on a rush hour train to scream at the top of their lungs about Jesus, or drag a bluetooth speaker with them to play their Jesus music at high volume while they preach. Lately, I’ve even seen a bunch having a go at doing that in buses here, where they’re constantly falling on people, trying to pace up and down the aisle preaching while the bus is in motion.
JWs here in the UK tend to go to your door and bother you even if you ask them repeatedly not to.
I can’t imagine it’s much different in the US.
They stopped doing that where I grew up about 22 years ago, over safety concerns while not being particularly effective, as I recall. Now, I pretty much only ever see them in subway stations or parks, sat behind a little table with a black table cloth over it and a cardboard stand next to it with pamphlets for people to take. I don’t support them in any way, but if they’re content with evangelizing in that fashion, they pretty much drop out of the list of street preachers that drive me mad entirely. It’s far and away less intrusive than the clowns that jump on a rush hour train to scream at the top of their lungs about Jesus, or drag a bluetooth speaker with them to play their Jesus music at high volume while they preach. Lately, I’ve even seen a bunch having a go at doing that in buses here, where they’re constantly falling on people, trying to pace up and down the aisle preaching while the bus is in motion.