E-mail received from a concerned reader:
You might want to let folks know that there are two gentlemen that are knocking on doors and have Dawn dish soap. One gentleman stays in the vehicle while the other wants to be allowed inside. This happened at our residence on Rt 21 in Alfred Station tonight about 7:20 pm. I did not let the man in and reported the incident to the police. A similar situation occurred in Olean awhile back. I Googled Door to Door dish soap and a link to the story was there. Possibly if it is published, they won't try and burglarize the area. I'm concerned that they were casing the area.