that sounds like a bumper sticker

Goes down like giant stickers. 

Some will encounter some difficulty in life (auto accident for example) and be unable to make it.

The simplest answer to avoiding encounters with the SEC (or some state agency), other than the really obvious ones of not putting a blatant ad in the paper, is to be sure your investors make money.

I've got a ruger lcp that I can throw in my pocket during a uncomfortable encounter.

The one I'm using at the moment is made by 'Klarus'.Every once in a while I encounter someone else with a fannie pack.

I also encounter great deals on properties that I either don't have the time or desire to keep for myself so I do "wholesale" those.

Better to encounter a fool than an intelligent cheat.But I am with you, @Sharad M. , I would like to understand the thought process of these people...if only for curiosity's sake.

So hunters could be encountered in the woods on public lands during these months. 

They wanted the UPC code of the fan itself (that's not on the receipt) which is a sticker on top of the actual fan body, which you cannot see unless you get on a ladder with a down facing mirror, I had the model number, model name etc...which should be sufficient.