NASHVILLE, Ind. — A pack of dogs attacked and killed a 71-year-old Census Bureau worker who apparently walked past warning signs in an attempt to count the occupants of an isolated, rural home.
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I heard the 2010 Census had two additional questions => 1) How many dogs do you have? and 2) What time do they eat?
“who apparently walked past warning signs”
In 1980, I tested/hired/fired enumerators.
We had many that we had to hire, due to “quotas”, who were functionally illiterate.
They’d come to me every day, complaining about the hillbillies, their shotguns and their porch dogs.
What was I supposed to say?
It’s our “culture”.
The 1980 census was a boondoggle, since a vast majority of forms were filled out by the enumerators who feared the hicks, *if* they didn’t just throw them in the trash and quit within a week.
That was back in the days when you actually had to try to act like you wanted to work before you could get welfare.
I don’t think I am lucky in that respect. Nothing bites me, not dogs, not bugs, not small children. The last time I was bitten by something was in 1956 when a neighbor’s chihuahua ate up my hand. I mentally made a deal with the bees when I was 11 y.o. that I wouldn’t swat them if they wouldn’t sting me. I have not been stung or bitten since. I have walked past a number of dogs that should have done a job on my leg. I talk to them before I pass (except that Dobe). I met a lot of them on the Census. I don’t cross fences with dog warning signs on them until I have met the dog, though, and discussed it with him. I can tell about a bad dog and my bad attitude but it would take too much space.