Census worker hanged in Kentucky

[Hal_Crawford]

I just stumbled across this news item and I see the victim was a scout leader and school teacher. A terrible thing for his family, his students and his scouts.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged

 

Hal

 

 

[SMT224]

A tragic event. My sympathies to his family, friends and Troop.

 

He was also an Eagle.

 

This may have been an outright hate crime, or perhaps he accidentally stumbled across a pot production operation or meth lab, both unfortunately common in rural forest areas.

[Nike]

In the end I think this will be drug or moonshine related.

 

So sad that someone trying to do good in teh world has his life so tragically and evilly cut short.

[BadenP]

Unfortunate event indeed, it seems the Census Bureau is becoming as hated as the IRS. You notice its always the part time worker trying to make a few bucks that receives this abuse,and what is the agency doing to protect their workers, absolutely nothing. I worked for the 1990 census for 3 months, before I was offered a decent job, and I can tell you the Census part timers are not treated very well. I was never so happy to resign from a job in my life.

My condolences to his family.

[The Blancmange]

Turns out this man actually committed suicide:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/24/kentucky.census.worker.death/index.html(This message has been edited by the blancmange)